Streetwise homicide detective Lt. Mike Stone (Karl Malden) enjoys a fatherly rapport with his idealistic, college-educated prot g Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) in this 1970s ABC police drama ...

Karl Malden, a versatile Oscar-winning actor who built a six-decade Hollywood career playing heroes and heavies -- and, often, relatable ordinary men -- yet who was certain he was best known as a ...

But their father, Karl Malden, was also part of Hollywood royalty. In fact, he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1952’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which also starred Marlon Brando ...

When Karl Malden died last week, at the age of 97, I was shocked – not least because I hadn’t known he was still alive. He was already middle-aged in Elia Kazan’s wonderful A Streetcar Named ...

Actor Karl Malden — an Academy Award winner, Emmy Award nominee and former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — died Wednesday at the age of 97.

The Associated Press/file photoIn this 1950 file photo, actor Karl Malden is shown. Malden, a former steelworker who won an Oscar for his role as Mitch in the 1951 classic "A Streetcar Named ...

Malden could always be counted on to provide ballast for Brando's mercurial gifts. In the 1961 Western One-Eyed Jacks , new to the Criterion Collection, the relationship takes on an Oedipal dimension.

“Even though Karl Malden died at age 97 in 2009, the members of our church will always be grateful to him and Mona, his wife of 70 years, for their kindness and generosity,” Pujo said.

Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97.

Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning character actor who for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television, from “A ...