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Karl Malden
Karl Malden was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946 and 1947. Recreating the role of Mitch in the 1951 film of Streetcar, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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entertainment · American actor (1912–2009) · television actor · film actor · stage actor · film director · actor · director · also Karl Malden, Mladen George Sekulovich, Malden
Born 22 March 1912 · Died 1 July 2009 · Q94992
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2009· 1 entry
Died 2009-07-01.
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2005· 2 entries
The United States House of Representatives authorized the United States Postal Service to rename the Los Angeles Barrington Postal Station as the Karl Malden Postal Station in honor of Malden's achievements
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Was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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2004· 1 entry
Douglas also presented Malden with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, which is given for "distinguished careers exemplifying Eugene O'Neill's standard of excellence and
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2000· 1 entry
In the first-season episode of The West Wing titled "Take This Sabbath Day" in which he portrayed a Catholic priest, using the same Bible he had used in On the Waterfront
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1997· 1 entry
Malden published his autobiography, When Do I Start
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1987· 1 entry
Malden was the host/narrator for the second and third television specials that later became the long-running series Unsolved Mysteries
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Fatal Vision (1985).
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Malden won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his performance as Freddy Kassab in Fatal Vision
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1981· 1 entry
Malden portrayed ice hockey coach Herb Brooks in a made for television account of the United States men's national ice hockey team's miraculous gold medal-winning run in the 1980 Winter Olympics
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1980· 1 entry
Malden starred in Skag, an hour-long drama that focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill
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1973· 1 entry
“Earl Holliman: actor with desire for variety”
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1972· 1 entry
Producer Quinn Martin gave Malden the role of Lt
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1963· 1 entry
Malden was a member of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival
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1959· 1 entry
And was impressed by the ESU Summer Theatre
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire (1952).
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For A Streetcar Named Desire and was nominated in 1955 for his supporting role in On the Waterfront
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1946· 1 entry
As a Sergeant and was awarded the Air Force Presidential Unit Citation, the American Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal
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1942· 1 entry
By the Second World War, during which he served as a noncommissioned officer in the 8th Air Force of the United States Army Air Corps
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1938· 1 entry
Malden married Mona Greenberg (May 9, 1917 – July 13, 2019), who survived him
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1931· 1 entry
With high marks, he briefly planned to leave Gary for Arkansas, where he hoped to win an athletic scholarship, but college officials did not admit him owing to his refusal to play any sport besides basketball
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-03-22.
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