{"id":2937,"date":"2009-07-02T10:40:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/actor-karl-malden-dies.html"},"modified":"2009-07-02T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:40:18","slug":"actor-karl-malden-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/actor-karl-malden-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Actor Karl Malden: 1912-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so much of the world grotesquely fixated on every detail surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/search.blog.beliefnet.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=42&amp;tag=Michael%20Jackson&amp;limit=20\">Michael Jackson&#8217;s death<\/a>, the news of yet another Hollywood legend&#8217;s death was announced yesterday with little fanfare. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/02\/movies\/02malden.html?em\" target=\"_blank\">Actor Karl Malden,<\/a> known, to some, for being the voice heard in American Express commercials and, to others, for working with a young Michael Douglas on &#8220;The Streets of San Francisco,&#8221; died yesterday at the age of 97. <\/p>\n<p>I remember Malden most fondly from his supporting roles in classic movies such as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044081\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Streetcar Named Desire<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047296\/\" target=\"_blank\">On the Waterfront<\/a>,&#8221; both also starring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000008\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marlon Brando<\/a>.&nbsp;Malden was from a first generation immigrant family and had deep working class roots, so it was no surprise that he almost always played the Average Joe trying to do the right thing in a corrupt world. He played those roles to perfection&#8211;his best being Father Corrigan in &#8220;On the Waterfront.&#8221; The call to action Father Corrigan gives on the docks contains some of the most inspiring words that have ever made it to the big screen. You can&nbsp;watch the scene&nbsp;by clicking on the clip below. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4XLbRI0kdLg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so much of the world grotesquely fixated on every detail surrounding Michael Jackson&#8217;s death, the news of yet another Hollywood legend&#8217;s death was announced yesterday with little fanfare. 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