Karl Malden

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 -- 4:12 PM ET
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Karl Malden, Everyman Actor, Dies at 97

Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning character actor whose
half-century in show business carried him from the theater to
films and then to television, where he policed the streets of
San Francisco and became indelibly identified with a
commercial for traveler's checks, died Wednesday at his home
in Los Angeles. He was 97.