Karl Malden to receive special honour from Eugene O’Neill Theater CenterBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Karl Malden, the gruff, fatherly character actor who won an Academy Award for A Streetcar Named Desire, will receive a special honour from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut for his lifetime of stage work.Malden, 92, will join previous honourees including Jason Robards, Brian Dennehy, Zoe Caldwell, Edward Albee and August Wilson when he collects the award at a Beverly Hills luncheon on Nov. 11.The Monte Cristo Award is named after O’Neill’s boyhood home in Connecticut, the Monte Cristo cottage, which was the setting for the dramas Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Ah, Wilderness.“How fortunate can you get?” Malden said Monday. “O’Neill was one of the top writers in the country. You couldn’t get any luckier than to be in one of his plays. I was in one of them — Desire Under the Elms. It’s a memorable part of my career.”The honouree is chosen by the theatre for exemplifying “the excellence and pioneering spirit” of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright.The award will be presented to Malden by Michael Douglas, who co-starred with him on the 1970s crime TV show The Streets of San Francisco.Malden’s other screen credits include On the Waterfront, Birdman of Alcatraz, Patton, Gypsy and One-Eyed Jacks.
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Clusterfuck at the Baja Fresh Salsa Bar (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)
He's 92! He's in my FAVORITE western, "One Eyed Jacks" with Brando, a tale of... REVENGE, of course. I've always had a lot of respect for old Karl.
― andy, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)
Dead at 97R.I.P.
MODS: maybe change title of this thread?
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)
Love all this detail:
He was born Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago on March 22, 1912, the son of an immigrant mother from the nation that later became Czechoslovakia and a Serbian father, who delivered milk for 38 years.Malden spoke little English until after his family moved from their Serbian enclave in Chicago to the steel-mill community of Gary, Ind., when he was 5.Malden's father was a theater lover who staged Serbian plays in the church and in Serbian patriotic organizations in Gary. As a teenager, Malden played heavies -- usually Turks, complete with a big, black mustache -- in his father's productions.
Malden spoke little English until after his family moved from their Serbian enclave in Chicago to the steel-mill community of Gary, Ind., when he was 5.
Malden's father was a theater lover who staged Serbian plays in the church and in Serbian patriotic organizations in Gary. As a teenager, Malden played heavies -- usually Turks, complete with a big, black mustache -- in his father's productions.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 20:24 (sixteen years ago)
good foil/pincushion for Brando in Streetcar, On the Waterfront & One Eyed Jacks.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 20:31 (sixteen years ago)
lol this thread title
― surm, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
i had forgotten that Michael Jackson's POS dad was still alive
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)
What are the odds against Gary, Indiana producing such showbiz giants - and losing two of 'em within a week?
― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 2 July 2009 05:22 (sixteen years ago)
I can't believe this thread is nearly five years old!
― I DIED (u s steel), Thursday, 2 July 2009 06:10 (sixteen years ago)
Whenever he was in a film, Malden would push for his own family name, Sekulovich, to be somehow included in is. See, for instance, Fred Gwynne's character in On The Waterfront. I always liked that about the guy.
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― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 July 2009 11:42 (sixteen years ago)