Biography
Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Секуловић; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an Serbian-American actor. He was primarily a character actor who 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 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor — On the Waterfront (1954), Pollyanna (1960), and One-Eyed Jacks (1961...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg is an award-winning comedian actress and human rights advocate. She has achieved amazing success in the entertainment industry. From t...

Tesla Nation
2018
as Himself (archive footage)
We are all one. People are interconnected by invisible forces. Creative documentary about the history of Serbian immigration to the USA. Road movie th...
The Streets of the Invisibles
2011
as Mike Stone (voice)
Mike Stone (Karl Malden) and Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) are back on today's streets to catch a homicidal maniac who should have been incarcerated ...

An Actor Named Brando
2006
as Self
A short overview of Brando's career.

Censorship and Desire
2006
as Self
Censorship issues with the film "A Streetcar Named Desire."
A Man Named Brando
2006
as Self
Documentary short on Marlon Brando included in the DVD extras of The Streetcar Named Desire.

Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
as Self
A documentary on the filming of the controversial film Baby Doll (1956).

A Streetcar on Broadway
2006
as Self
Interviews and photos about the play on Broadway

A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006
as Self
How the play was adapted to Film

A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005
as Self
Kirk Douglas achieved the kind of cinematic stardom that dreams are made of. As the torch was passed to his talented son Michael, it became obvious to...

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter...

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
2000
as Self
A career overview of film and TV actor Richard Widmark.

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
as Self
The life of legendary actor Anthony Perkins is recounted by friends and family, colleagues and co-stars, revealing the man underneath Norman Bates.

Vanished Without a Trace
1993
as Ed Ray
Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driv...

Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness l...

Oscar's Greatest Moments
1992
as Himself - Host / Narrator
Highlights from Oscar ceremonies between 1971 and 1991.

Back to the Streets of San Francisco
1992
as Mike Stone
Mike Stone's back and his old partner, Steve Keller, is missing. So Mike heads up an investigation. At the same time, he is investigating another brut...

Absolute Strangers
1991
as Fred Zusselman
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a l...

Call Me Anna
1990
as Doctor Harold Arlen
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Self
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never staye...

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
as Leon Klinghoffer
The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release ...

My Father, My Son
1988
as Elmo Zumwalt Jr.
When an Admiral orders the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, he has no idea the deadly consequences of his actions for his son.

Nuts
1987
as Arthur Kirk
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Billy Galvin
1986
Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to...

With Intent to Kill
1984
as Thomas E. Nolan
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have exper...

The Sting II
1983
as Gus Macalinski
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that...

Twilight Time
1982
as Marko Sekulović
After spending 20 years in America, aging widower Marko Sekulovic (Karl Malden) returns to his Yugoslavian homeland to take care of his two young gran...

Miracle on Ice
1981
as Herb Brooks
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by contr...

Word of Honor
1981
as Mike McNeill
A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the ...

Skag
1980
as Pete 'Skag' Skagska
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life...

Meteor
1979
as Harry Sherwood
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible cat...

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
as Wilbur Hubbard
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are sti...

Captains Courageous
1977
as Disko Troop
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of the ocean and is picked up by a crusty old sea cap...

The Streets of San Francisco
1972
as Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone
SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they i...

Summertime Killer
1972
as Captain John Kiley
During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His la...

Wild Rovers
1971
as Walter Buckman
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too ol...

The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971
as Franco Arnò
A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.

Patton
1970
as Gen. Omar N. Bradley
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and p...

Hot Millions
1968
as Carlton J. Klemper
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.

Blue
1968
as Doc Morton
A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexican gang.

Billion Dollar Brain
1967
as Leo Newbigen
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967
as Judge Higgins
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives c...

Hotel
1967
as Keycase Milne
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock...

Murderers' Row
1966
as Julian Wall
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mi...

Nevada Smith
1966
as Tom Fitch
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and...

The Cincinnati Kid
1965
as Shooter
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Cheyenne Autumn
1964
as Capt. Wessels
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

Dead Ringer
1964
as Sergeant Jim Hobbson
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impers...

Come Fly with Me
1963
as Walter Lucas
Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.

How the West Was Won
1962
as Zebulon Prescott
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one ...

Gypsy
1962
as Herbie Sommers
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention t...

Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
as Harvey Shoemaker
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro...

All Fall Down
1962
as Ralph Willart
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry ...

Parrish
1961
as Judd Raike
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's riva...

One-Eyed Jacks
1961
as Sheriff Dad Longworth
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captur...

The Great Impostor
1960
as Father Devlin
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite succ...

Pollyanna
1960
as Reverend Paul Ford
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

The Hanging Tree
1959
as Frenchy Plante
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a ma...

Bombers B-52
1957
as MSgt. Chuck V. Brennan
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.

Time Limit
1957
as Prisoner (uncredited)
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits ...

Time Limit
1957
Director
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits ...

Fear Strikes Out
1957
as John Piersall
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

Baby Doll
1956
as Archie Lee Meighan
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for fi...

On the Waterfront
1954
as Father Barry
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...

Phantom of the Rue Morgue
1954
as Dr. Marais
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon ...

Take the High Ground!
1953
as Sgt. Laverne Holt
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he r...

I Confess
1953
as Inspector Larrue
Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a pri...

Ruby Gentry
1952
as Jim Gentry
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.

Operation Secret
1952
as Maj. Latrec
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Bas...

Diplomatic Courier
1952
as Sgt. Ernie Guelvada
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting poi...

The Sellout
1952
as Capt. Buck Maxwell
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.

A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
as Harold Mitchell
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downwar...

Halls of Montezuma
1951
as C.E. "Doc" Jones
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into bat...

Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
as Det. Lt. Thomas
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

The Gunfighter
1950
as Mac
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Kiss of Death
1947
as Sgt. William Cullen
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Boomerang!
1947
as Det. Lt. White (uncredited)
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the p...

13 Rue Madeleine
1947
as Jump Master (uncredited)
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, B...

Winged Victory
1944
as Adams
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with ...

They Knew What They Wanted
1940
as Red
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accept...