Malden's father, who had a passion for music, organized the Serbian Singing Federation, uniting immigrant choral groups across the United States. Malden spoke only Serbian until he was in kindergarten he remained fluent in the language until his death. The Sekulovich family's roots trace back to Podosoje near Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His Serb father Petar Sekulović (1886–1975) worked in the steel mills and as a milkman, and his mother, Minnie ( née Sebera) Sekulovich (Ma– July 15, 1995), was a Czech seamstress and actress. He was raised in a home at 457 Connecticut Street in Gary, Indiana. Karl Malden, the eldest of three sons, was born Mladen Sekulovich ( Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Секуловић) in Chicago, Illinois, on March 22, 1912, which was his mother's 20th birthday. Malden was also president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1992.

He was later an advertising spokesman for American Express.įilm and culture critic Charles Champlin described Malden as 'an Everyman, but one whose range moved easily up and down the levels of society and the IQ scale, from heroes to heavies and ordinary, decent guys just trying to get along', and at the time of his death, Malden was described as 'one of the great character actors of his time' who created a number of 'powerhouse performances on screen'. Mike Stone in the primetime television crime drama The Streets of San Francisco. From 1972 to 1977, he portrayed the leading role of Lt. Malden also played in high-profile Hollywood films such as Baby Doll (1956), The Hanging Tree (1959), How the West Was Won (1962), Gypsy (1962), and Patton (1970). He was primarily a character actor, who according to Robert Berkvist, 'for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film, and television', especially in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront (1954), Pollyanna (1960), and One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich Ma– July 1, 2009) was an American actor.

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