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Karl Malden
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Karl Malden

The Oscar- and Emmy-winning character actor died of natural causes at age 97 on July 1. With his bulbous nose (broken twice in his teens from playing basketball), Malden said he was determined to be "No. 1 in the No. 2 parts I was destined to get," and did he deliver in such classics as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Patton and more. On the small screen, Malden nutured a young Michael Douglas in the cop drama The Streets of San Francisco.