Comments on: The Streets of San Francisco Are Missing A Great

By: Dr. Giggles

Dr. Giggles — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:16 +0000

Thank you Mr. Goldstone….

By: mike

mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:54:13 +0000

The Screen Actors Guild, Mourns Actor Karl Malden:

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

By: Tom Ligon

Tom Ligon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:08:53 +0000

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

By: Michael F. Blake

Michael F. Blake — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:21:55 +0000

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.

By: Neil Hassman

Neil Hassman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:54:03 +0000

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

Sad month….

By: geo

geo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:43:43 +0000

Don’t forget Fred Travalena.

By: Robespierre

Robespierre — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:17:36 +0000

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?

By: geo

geo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:52:44 +0000

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.