Comments on: Remembering Karl Malden: “This is my church!”

By: Deep Stuff

Deep Stuff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:53:09 +0000

Great story Adios.

By: Joel Mark

Joel Mark — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:56:16 +0000

I read that Malden is survived by his wife and by two daughters, three granddaughters, and four great grandchildren. I think it would be fitting for some of us to pray for his wife of 71 years at this time, for comfort and peace. May God bless her heart!!!

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By: adios

adios — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:29:17 +0000

Markclaudklassen,

I once ended up in Gen. Omar Bradley’s hope by happenstance. We were using his phone in pre-cell days. While my brother called my dad I looked at pictures and back at the old man who was our temporary host. There he was with Eisenhower, Monty, Churchill, Patton. This was when the movie Patton was playing in the theaters. I turned to the gentleman and said one of the stupidest things of my life, “Did you used to be somebody?”

His wife laughed out loud and said, “He used to be Omar Bradley, now he thinks he’s Karl Malden.”

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By: donna j

donna j — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:45:02 +0000

“Shape up” — a term I came across this week that I hadn’t remembered as I was interviewing people for a story on this weekend’s 75th anniversary of the founding of the longshore union in our area.

I’ll have to check out that movie again.

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By: pastordavid

pastordavid — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:08:04 +0000

That should have read “I have missed his presence” or “I have mourned his absence”. You get the idea.

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By: pastordavid

pastordavid — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:47:39 +0000

I also enjoyed his clergy role in Disney’s Polyanna (sp?). He always seemed to portray, up-right, solid, and honorable characters, even if they were, at times internally conflicted. I have missed his absence over the years.

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By: markclaudklassen

markclaudklassen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:10:35 +0000

Don’t forget–he did a stalwart job portraying Gen. Omar Bradley against George C. Scott’s “Patton.”

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By: NJLawyer

NJLawyer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:03:48 +0000

Karl Malden (and his nose) have been around all my life, and it saddens me to see him go. They don’t make good character actors like him anymore. (He did a great job in Bette Davis’ movie Dead Ringer, too!)

Here was a man who did his job well, worked hard, was reasonably successful and lived a decent life, and the most he gets is a mention on the news. What a contrast to what’s going on day after day in the news since last week. It shows just what our society values.

Malden will be missed.

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By: Travis Birkenstock

Travis Birkenstock — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:54 +0000

Fairly recently, Karl Malden played President Jed Bartlett’s priest on West Wing. It was a powerful Season 1 episode where POTUS Bartlett (Martin Sheen) consults with Malden about a capital punishment case where he is considering giving an Executive pardon.

Check out this wonderful clip of this episode from YouTube. (so sorry for the long link, maybe one of you TinyURL folks can fix it)

http://video.google.com/videosearch?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USUS299US304&sourceid=chrome&q=west%20wing&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#q=west+wing+malden&hl=en&emb=0

Another great Malden role is in Hitchcock’s “I confess”.

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By: Joel Mark

Joel Mark — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:54:22 +0000

This is such a great post and clip. This is why I enjoy this blog. Thank you.

They don’t make ‘em like Karl Malden anymore, at least not for the most part.

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