Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States Executive summary:Streets of San Francisco
Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII)
Karl Malden was an actor famous for his craggy face, huge nose, and for saying "Don't leave home without it", his long-running line as TV pitchman for American Express.
He won an Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), and an Emmy as Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone on Streets of San Francisco. Malden also played Gen. Omar Bradley opposite George C. Scott's Patton. In Baby Doll (1956), he played a horny husband whose gorgeous wife (Carroll Baker) refused to have sex with him. The film was condemned nearly pornographic by the Catholic church, for its shocking portrayal of young lust, but by present standards it's hardly titillating.
President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science from 1989 to 1993.
[1] Karl Malden and Carla Malden, When Do I Start? (1997), page 15.
Wife: Mona Greenberg (actress, "Mona Graham", m. 1938, two daughters) Daughter: Carla Daughter: Mila