Mladen George Sekulovich known to the world as Karl Malden, died today in his home in Los Angles, he was 97 years old. No cause of death was immediately disclosed. The man who had a career in film and television that spanned over five decades starred in films such as Birdman of Alcatraz,  How The West Was Won, and the publicly acclaimed film Baby Doll, based on two short plays by Tennessee Williams.

Before getting into film, he started with stage roles on Broadway. He made his greatest mark on Hollywood in the early 1950s as part of a group of New York theater stars, along with Marlon Brando and director Elia Kazan. On Kazan’s first impression of Malden, Kazan said:

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Winning an Academy Award must be a fantastic feeling. Just imagine, after years of hard work, one day your peers finally take note and say “you were the best this year.” Either that, or they say “sucks that you died so early, we really thought we’d get a chance to make it up to you for screwing you over in 2005. But better late than never, right?”  Which ever way it happens, an Academy Award is a special moment, and everyone treats it as such. Or at least in a perfect world they would. Sometimes, they pull stunts like this instead…

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