Happy Birthday: Karl Malden (1912–2009)

Karl Malden (1912–2009)

Born: March 22, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: July 1, 2009 (age 97) in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Mona Greenberg (18 December 1938 – 1 July 2009) (his death) (2 children)

[on being a professional actor, who knew what it was like when he worked with his bare hands]: If you look in those mills, and you do it long enough, you never forget that, that’s there to stay because you feel you’ve being used for, not for what you have here, but what you have in your body, in your muscle. It’s demeaning in a way because you’re a human being.

[on actors who have moved on to their own film careers, with the exception of himself]: And then they talk to you about frustration. The first play I was in, Golden Boy, from that play, John Garfield, went to Hollywood, became…