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Acting

Karl Malden

Career: Active from 1944 to 2011, with a break from 1994 to 2010, busiest in 1952 and 1962 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles: 43
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: On the Waterfront
89/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Screen Actors Guild Awards · SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award
2003 · Won
Source: Wikidata
Primetime Emmy Awards · Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1985 · Won · 37th Primetime Emmy Awards
Fatal Vision
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actor in a Supporting Role
1952 · Won · 24th Academy Awards
A Streetcar Named Desire
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actor in a Supporting Role
1955 · Nominated · 27th Academy Awards
On the Waterfront
Source: Wikidata

Characters

3

The characters Karl Malden played, best-known titles first.

Karl Malden as Dad Longworth

Karl Malden as Det. Lt. Mike Stone

Karl Malden as Wilbur Hubbard

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Karl Malden Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Absurdist Humor
1.3, average 2.0
Situational Comedy
2.0, average 2.7

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Character Study 8
Coming-of-Age 6
Moral Ambiguity 5
Classic Hollywood 4
Social Commentary 4
Historical Drama 4
Historical Setting 4
Legal Drama 3
Western 3
Crime Drama 3
Moral Dilemma 3
Character-Driven 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

72

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

The Streets of the Invisibles

as Mike Stone (voice) (archival)

1990s

7 titles · average score 66

The West Wing

81

TV show · as Father Thomas Cavanaugh

The Lionhearts

TV show · as (voice)

Vanished Without a Trace

72

as Ed Ray

Back to the Streets of San Francisco

61

as Mike Stone

Earth and the American Dream

as Reader (voice)

Absolute Strangers

59

as Fred Zusselman

Call Me Anna

58

as Harold Arlen

1980s

13 titles · average score 59

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

as Leon Klinghoffer

My Father, My Son

as Elmo Zumwalt Jr.

Nuts

54

as Arthur Kirk

Fatal Vision

73

TV show · as Freddy Kassab

With Intent to Kill

as Thomas E. Nolan

The Sting II

25

as Gus Macalinski

Twilight Time

58

as Marko Sekulović

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Jack Galvin

Miracle on Ice

67

as Herb Brooks

Word of Honor

as Mike McNeill

Skag

as Pete 'Skag' Skagska

TV show

1970s

9 titles · average score 55

Meteor

29

as Harry Sherwood

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

28

as Wilbur Hubbard

Captains Courageous

as Disko Troop

The Streets of San Francisco

47

TV show · as Mike Stone

Summertime Killer

59

as Captain John Kiley

The Streets of San Francisco

72

as Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone

The Cat o' Nine Tails

67

as Franco Arnò

Wild Rovers

58

as Walter Buckman

Patton

82

as General Omar N. Bradley

1960s

19 titles · average score 63

Hot Millions

68

as Carlton J. Klemper

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

53

as Judge Higgins

Billion Dollar Brain

52

as Leo Newbigen

Nevada Smith

58

as Tom Fitch

Murderers' Row

54

as Julian Wall

Cheyenne Autumn

60

as Capt. Wessels

Dead Ringer

70

as Sergeant Jim Hobbson

Birdman of Alcatraz

80

as Harvey Shoemaker

Gypsy

71

as Herbie Sommers

How the West Was Won

70

as Zebulon Prescott

One-Eyed Jacks

68

as Sheriff Dad Longworth

The Great Impostor

56

as Father Devlin

1950s

18 titles · average score 70

The Hanging Tree

80

as Frenchy Plante

Time Limit

66

as Prisoner of War (uncredited)

Fear Strikes Out

77

as John Piersall

Bombers B-52

49

as MSgt. Chuck V. Brennan

Baby Doll

77

as Archie Lee Meighan

On the Waterfront

89

as Father Barry

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

54

as Dr. Marais

I Confess

69

as Inspector Larrue

Take the High Ground!

49

as Sgt. Laverne Holt

Ruby Gentry

61

as Jim Gentry

A Streetcar Named Desire

89

as Harold Mitchell

Where the Sidewalk Ends

88

as Det. Lt. Thomas

1940s

5 titles · average score 66

Kiss of Death

72

as Sgt. William Cullen

13 Rue Madeleine

72

as Jump Master (uncredited)

Boomerang!

71

as Det. Lt. White (uncredited)

Winged Victory

63

as Adams

They Knew What They Wanted

52

as Red