Karl Malden won Best Supporting Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire and was nominated again for On the Waterfront, working repeatedly with Kazan and Brando.
The nose, broken twice playing basketball, meant he was always cast as ordinary, which he used to considerable effect in Patton and Baby Doll.
The Streets of San Francisco gave him a long television lead opposite a young Michael Douglas, and he served as president of the Academy for four years.
Karl MaldenBeyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A sequel that kept the upturned hull and threw away the reason it worked. Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, and no idea what to do…
Burt LancasterFrankenheimer's 1962 prison biopic. Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud.
Dana AndrewsOtto Preminger's 1950 film noir with Dana Andrews. Detective accidentally kills suspect then frames innocent man.
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