Karl Malden, 97
The Everyman actor, who earned cinematic acclaim in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront as well as television stardom in The Streets of San Francisco and decades of American Express commercials, said, "I learned in my second year of drama school that I was not a leading man - I was a character actor. So I thought, I'd better be the best character actor around." Los Angeles Times 07/02/09

Posted July 2, 2009 09:52 PM