Comments on: Remembering Mr. Malden

By: m.

m. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:08:15 +0000

I remember Karl Malden–he was a good actor, who played wonderfully in “On the Waterfront”, the TV Series “Streets of San Francisco”, and other things. Sorry that he passed, despite his having lived a long life.

By: Jeanmercedes

Jeanmercedes — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:02:39 +0000

Always a fine treat to see the performances of Mr. Karl Meldan in all his movies not just the ones I love seeing him like Parrish and Ruby Gentry. He goes far beyoud what you expect as an actor while watching all his movies and Tv series. I enjoyed and love watching him and TCM could show a marathon and I still would love to see more.

By: lavenderladyinpurple

lavenderladyinpurple — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:21:45 +0000

Karl Malden was one of the last actors that was true to his craft. I never saw him in a role that I did not like. How fortunate movie lovers were to have had such a great actor, yet humble in his ways. That is why he will be missed so terribly.
Todays actors could learn so much from him both professionally and personally. He was an everyday man who had class and style, yet he did not let an ego get in the way of who he was. Thank goodness we can always see his work, thanks to TCM.

By: suzidoll

suzidoll — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:09:09 +0000

Great idea to structure a tribute with selections of his work. You get a real sense of his range and diverse body of work. Nicely done. He’s also terrific in the Streisand film NUTS.

By: moirafinnie

moirafinnie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:28:41 +0000

How wonderful to see the range of Karl Malden's work on film here. Thank you for including them all, especially that one in the hold of the cargo ship in On the Waterfront. I recently read a critique of the movie that mocked his performance. His eloquence still gives me chills. If anyone is interested in seeing Malden in a similar role, his last in a fictional work, he plays another priest advising the Prez (Martin Sheen) about capital punishment on a repeat of a particularly powerful episode of The West Wing, "Take This Sabbath Day" on Bravo on Wed. July 8 at 9:00 AM EDT. I have to admit that seeing him as a kid in One Eyed Jacks and other roles in which he was a bully and quite the shouter put me off him for years. Only in later years did I start to realize how his presence grounded many films by his sense of reality through his appearance and depth of understanding of a character's behavior. I particularly loved his tv work in a short-lived series in the 1980s about a family of steel workers called Skag and in one of his few leading man roles, he went back to his family roots in Twilight Time (1982), playing a very convincing role as a man who had lived in the U.S. for decades and had returned to his Serbian homeland to retire. I'm sure those small scale projects won't resurface again any time soon, but I hope that a tribute to Malden will be able to be scheduled someday soon on TCM. If you get a chance, you might enjoy checking out his readable autobiography, “When Do I Start?: A Memoir” It's a fascinating and fun ride along his life's road. Thanks for putting this together, Medusa. I suspect Karl Malden would have loved being remembered so well for his work. Will we see another actor like him? I doubt it.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:03:28 +0000

What a lovely idea for a tribute! Reminders of a truly inspired professional.