Karl Malden
Highest Rated: 100% Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Lowest Rated: 0% Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Birthday: Mar 22, 1912
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
A forceful and dynamic star of stage, film and television for over six decades, Karl Malden was an Academy Award-winning actor who found fame in the 1950s and 1960s in a wide variety of character roles and the occasional lead. An exceptionally versatile performer, he could play all points on the moral compass with unwavering verisimilitude. Audiences believed him as both the lovelorn Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) and the forthright Father Barry in "On the Waterfront" (1954) and as the lustful husband of a teenage bride in "Baby Doll" (1956) or as the tongue-in-cheek super-villain Julian Wells in "Murderers' Row" (1966). He shifted his attention to television in the 1970s and scored a sizable hit with "The Streets of San Francisco" (ABC, 1972-77) while lending his credibility to countless commercials for American Express. Well-respected by his peers in the industry, he also served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1993.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67% | No Score Yet | Who Is Norman Lloyd? | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping Story | Ed Ray (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Back to the Streets of San Francisco | Mike Stone (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Absolute Strangers | Fred Zusselman (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Call Me Anna | Doctor Harold Arlen (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro | Leon Klinghoffer (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Father, My Son | Elmo Zumwalt Jr. (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 33% | 71% | Nuts | Arthur Kirk (Character) | $29.5M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Billy Galvin | Jack Galvin (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Walrus (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Dario Argento's World of Horror | Unknown (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Fatal Vision | Freddy Kassab (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Urge to Kill | Thomas E. Nolan (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twilight Time | Marko Sekulovic (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 0% | 29% | The Sting II | Gus Macalinski (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Miracle on Ice | Herb Brooks (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skag | Pete "Skag" Skagska (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Word of Honor | Mike McNeill (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 0% | 22% | Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Wilbur Hubbard (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 5% | 13% | Meteor | Harry Sherwood (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captains Courageous | Disko Troop (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Summertime Killer | Captain John Kiley (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Detective Lt. Mike Stone (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 82% | 53% | The Cat o' Nine Tails | Franco Arno (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 57% | 44% | Wild Rovers | Walter Buckman (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 94% | 93% | Patton | General Omar N. Bradley (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 67% | 74% | Hot Millions | Carlton J. Klemper (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Blue | Doc Morton (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 50% | 41% | Billion Dollar Brain | Leo Newbigen (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 50% | 48% | The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin | Judge Higgins (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 100% | 38% | Hotel | Keycase Milne (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Murderers' Row | Julian Wall (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 50% | 65% | Nevada Smith | Tom Fitch (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 82% | 78% | The Cincinnati Kid | Shooter (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 60% | 47% | Cheyenne Autumn | Capt. Wessels (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 100% | 80% | Dead Ringer | Sergeant Jim Hobbson (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Come Fly With Me | Walter Lucas (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 86% | 74% | How the West Was Won | Zebulon Prescott (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 64% | 74% | Gypsy | Herbie Sommers (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 40% | 51% | All Fall Down | Ralph Willart (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 91% | 84% | Birdman of Alcatraz | Harvey Shoemaker (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 59% | 72% | One-Eyed Jacks | Sheriff Dad Longworth (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Parrish | Judd Raike (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | The Great Impostor | Father Devlin (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 86% | 79% | Pollyanna | Reverend Paul Ford (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 83% | 72% | The Hanging Tree | Frenchy Plante (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Time Limit | Director | - | 1957 |
| 83% | 77% | Fear Strikes Out | John Piersall (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Bombers B-52 |
Master Sergeant Chuck V. Brennan/ |
- | 1957 |
| 94% | 81% | Baby Doll | Archie Lee Meighan (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | Phantom of the Rue Morgue | Dr. Marais (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 99% | 95% | On the Waterfront | Father Barry (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 80% | 76% | I Confess | Inspector Larrue (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Take the High Ground | Sgt. Laverne Holt (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Operation Secret | Maj. Latrec (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 63% | 48% | Ruby Gentry | Jim Gentry (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Sellout | Capt. Buck Maxwell (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 98% | 90% | A Streetcar Named Desire | Mitch (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 88% | 48% | Halls of Montezuma | Doc (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 100% | 88% | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Lt. Thomas (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 100% | 89% | The Gunfighter | Mac (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 88% | 75% | Kiss of Death | Sergeant William Cullen (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winged Victory | Adams (Character) | - | 1944 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75% | 95% | The West Wing | Father Thomas Cavanaugh (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Det. Lt. Mike Stone (Character) | 1972-1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walt Disney's Disneyland | Judge Higgins (Character) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1970 |
QUOTES FROM Karl Malden CHARACTERS
Terry Malloy says: If I spill, my life ain't worth a nickel.
Father Barry says: And how much is your soul worth if you don't?
Dad Longworth says: No, I won't kill you. Yer gun days are over.
Dad Longworth says: You're a one-eyed jack around these parts, dad, but I seen the other side of your face.
Dad Longworth says: Is this the thanks I get for takin' you outta the bean fields. I gave your daughter my name, MINE! His execution will be a day early. That's all!
Kid Rio says: I am going to get a trial, ain't I.
Dad Longworth says: Yeah Kid, you'll get a trial and then we're going hang you.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley says: speaking to Patton: I've done this job because I've been trained to do it..... you do it because....you love it.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley says: [speaking to Patton] I've done this job because I've been trained to do it... you do it because... you love it.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley says: [who's in charge of this operation?]: I don't know but they ought to hang him.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley says: [who's in charge of this operation?] I don't know but they ought to hang him.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley says: George, if you were named admirable of the Turkish navy, you could come up with the appropriate medal.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley says: Up against Rommel what we need is the best tank man we've got.
Father Barry says: Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. They better wise up! Taking Joey Doyle's life to stop him from testifying is a crucifixion. And dropping a sling on Kayo Dugan because he was ready to spill his guts tomorrow, that's a crucifixion. And every time the Mob puts the pressure on a good man, tries to stop him from doing his duty as a citizen, it's a crucifixion. And anybody who sits around and lets it happen, keeps silent about something he knows that happened, shares the guilt of it just as much as the Roman soldier who pierced the flesh of our Lord to see if he was dead.
Reverend Paul Ford says: DEATH COMES UNEXPECTEDLY!
Father Barry says: You want to know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making love of a buck - -the cushy job - -more important than the love of man!