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Posted on July 1, 2009, 2:40 PM, by admin, under We Remember.

Karl Malden

Karl Malden, the “everyman” actor, passed away today at age 97.

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  1. geo says:
    July 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM

    Wow, it’s been a tough two weeks to be a child of the 70s. :(

    97 tho. Good on you, Karl. I think I’ll remember you best as another extraordinary “everyman”, Omar N. Bradley, in Patton.

  2. Robespierre says:
    July 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM

    They used to say these came in three’s. This makes seven in the last month.
    David Carradine
    Ed McMahon
    Ken Roberts
    Farrah Fawcett
    Michael Jackson
    Gayle Storm
    Karl Malden

    Are they bunching up as we come to the end of days?

  3. geo says:
    July 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM

    Don’t forget Fred Travalena.

  4. Neil Hassman says:
    July 1, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    Billy Mays and Fred Travalena (both Showmen) make 9. 3 groups of 3.

    Sad month….

  5. Michael F. Blake says:
    July 1, 2009 at 9:21 PM

    Karl Malden was a great gentleman and a joy to work with.

    I had the pleasure of his company on “Fatal Vision” and he was so much like you saw and wanted him to be…an everyday Joe.

    Great storyteller, intelligent, thoughtful and funny.

    We once were talking about approach to roles and he told me, “No matter what the role, you have to find something you like in the character. Even if he’s a bastard, you find something likable and it will come through to the audience.”

    For instance, when he played the cat thief in HOTEL, he came up with the idea that his character would down bromo-seltzer or Pepto, to show his job was causing him distress. “That way,” he noted, “the audience develops a repore/felling toward you.”

    Like Fred Astaire and Cagney, he made it look so easy. Our business is all the more poorer with his passing.

  6. Tom Ligon says:
    July 2, 2009 at 12:08 AM

    He served on the SAG National Board from 1963-72.

  7. mike says:
    July 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    The Screen Actors Guild, Mourns Actor Karl Malden:

    http://www.sag.org/press-releases/july-01-2009/sag-mourns-actor-karl-malden

  8. Dr. Giggles says:
    July 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM

    Thank you Mr. Goldstone….

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