Karl Malden Net Worth

Karl Malden's Quotes

• [on his early days] My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
• I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every television series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
• People have told me that I came to this industry at its Golden Age. But when I was there, it was just an age.
• I am thrilled to be honored by the Screen Actors Guild because I've been with it for such a long time. The Screen Actors Guild is sort of a highfalutin name for a union, and this union was always wonderful to work for. For the rank-and-file of the union to honor me is the best compliment I can receive.
• I have an open-hearth face.

Interesting Facts about Karl Malden

1. Born Mladen Sekulovich, he always regretted that in order to become an actor, he had to change his name. Since he was proud of his heritage, when he starred in a movie or on TV, he insisted that a character carry his family name: In On the Waterfront (1954), Fred Gwynne's character was named "Sekulovich".
2. In 1971, he accepted the Academy Award for "Best Director" on behalf of Franklin J. Schaffner, who was not present at the awards ceremony.
3. The Maldens married in 1938 and stayed married until his death in 2009, making theirs the third longest marriage in Hollywood history surpassing the 69 years of Bob Hope and Dolores Hope (1934 until his death in 2003) and just behind Art Linkletter and Lois Foerster (married 1935-2010) with 74 years, and Norman Lloyd and Peggy Lloyd, who hold the record with 75 years.
4. Was close friends with The Magnificent Seven (1960) star Brad Dexter, who was also of Serbian descent.
5. President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) from 1989 to 1992.
6. Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1963
7. Has two daughters, Mila Malden and Carla Malden. Carla co-authored his autobiography "When Do I Start".
8. Received both of his Academy Award nominations for movies also starring Marlon Brando.
9. Of Serbian and Czechoslovakian descent.
10. Received an honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana (2001).
11. Was best friends with: Norman Lloyd, Harry Morgan, Lee J. Cobb, Angela Lansbury, Telly Savalas, Jane Wyman, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Robert Wagner, Shelley Winters, Eva Marie Saint, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Vivien Leigh, Eli Wallach, Kirk Douglas, Natalie Wood, Montgomery Clift, Arthur Kennedy, Richard Widmark and Carroll Baker.
12. On November 12, 2005, the Los Angeles Barrington Station renamed the building, after him, in Los Angeles, California, in honor of his proud achievements. This was followed by a passage of a bill founded by U.S. Congressman, Henry Waxman.
13. On November 11, 2004, his ex-The Streets of San Francisco (1972), co-star, Michael Douglas, presented him with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, for the Lifetime Achievement Award. Among the recipients besides Malden were Jason Robards, Zoe Caldwell, Edward Albee, August Wilson and Brian Dennehy.
14. After he graduated from high school at the top of his class, he briefly left Gary, Indiana, to move to Arkansas, where he had hoped to get a college athletics scholarship. The college turned him down due to his refusal to play football, other than basketball, hence, he returned to his hometown of Gary, Indiana.
15. His father, Petar Sekulovich, produced Serbian plays at Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church and taught acting. As a teenager, Mladen (later Malden) joined the Karageorge Choir at the church.
16. His family moved to Gary, Indiana, when he was five years old. He attended and graduated from Emerson High School there. in 1931. In high school, he participated in the drama department and was narrowly elected senior class president. Among other roles, he played Pooh-Bah in The Mikado.
17. On December 12, 2008, just six days before his 70th wedding anniversary, Malden was inducted into the Wall of Legends, at St. Sava Church in San Gabriel, California, where Milan Opacich paid tribute to a wonderful man who was a great benefactor of a Serbian Ortodox church.
18. He always practised meticulous preparation, studying a script carefully long before he stepped into the role.
19. He quit working in the steel mills at age 22 to study acting at the Goodman Theatre because he was not getting anywhere in the mills.
20. While working at an acting workshop in New York, he brought Eva Marie Saint, whom he knew.