Best Cop Shows from the 1970s | ReelRundown Best Cop Shows from the 1970s Best Cop Shows from the 1970s Updated on May 25, 2016 Joined: 7 years agoFollowers: 13Articles: 9 Influential Television The most influential television shows from my childhood were the police dramas of the 1970s. In fact I credit shows like Baretta, Charlie's Angels, and Starsky & Hutch for inspiring my initial desire to become a writer. I wanted to recreate those tough no nonsense crime fighters I grew up with in my own fiction. Whether or not I succeed remains to be seen, since I haven't published any of my own writing as yet. Cop shows dominated the '70s so there was no way to pay credit to them all in this short article. Instead I focused on my personal favorites, the ones I remember watching in the evening with my family. Hopefully there are some of your favorites too. Advertisement Martin Milner as Malloy and Kent McCord as Reed from Adam-12.

| Source Advertisement The series centered around Los Angeles Police Department vetern, Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and his new rookie partner, Jim Reed (Kent McCord). Pete was the carefree bachelor and Malloy the devoted family man. Created by Jack Webb, who was also responsible for the hit series Dragnet, this police procedural followed the officers during a typical day. The show ran from 1968 to 1975. Adam 12 - Season 1 Episode 2 Advertisement Hawaii Five-O Intro 1970s The Streets of San Francisco Karl Malden (right) as Mike Stone with David Wayne as Wally Sensibaugh, a newspaper person. | Source Advertisement Karl Malden played veteran detective Lieutenant Mike Stone and Michael Douglas his young rookie partner, Inspector Steve Keller. The ABC series aired from 1972 to 1977. Back to the Streets of San Francisco, a reunion movie, aired in 1992. Streets of San Francisco Opening Kojak Source Telly Savalas played Lieutenant Theo Kojak, a cool streetwise New York City cop known as much for the lollypop in his mouth as his bald head.

Kojack and his team were known to track down the worst of New York City's criminals. George Savalas, Telly's real life brother, played Detective Stavros. Kojack's "Who loves ya, baby?" became one of the top catchphrases of the decade. Kojak won two Emmy's, including Best Actor in a Drama for Telly Savalas. The show ran from on CBS from Oct. 1973 to March 1978. Seven Kojak movies aired on ABC between 1985 and 1990. Kojak Intro and Theme The Rookies The cast of The Rookies from the top: Georg Stanford Brown (as Terry Webster), Kate Jackson (Jill Danko), Gerald S. O'Laughlin (Eddie Ryker), Bruce Franklin (Chris Owens), and Sam Melville (Mike Danko). | Source This ABC show focused on a group of young police officers and the relationships between them. The show was produced by Aaron Spelling and ran for four years (1972 to 1976). The cast included George Stanford Brown, Kate Jackson, and Michael Ontkean.

The Rookies Intro Police Story Tony Lo Bianco and Don Meredith on Police Story. | Source Police Story had different actors in lead roles each week. Some recurred and many were killed off, making Police Story different from other cop shows on the air. Don Meredith, James Farentino, and Tony Lo Bianco were a few of the regulars. The series aired from 1973 to 1977 with several reunion movies. Police Story - Pilot Clip Rockford Files James Garner (right) as Jim Rockford. | Source James Garner played Jim Rockford, an ex-con turned private eye. Unlike most of the other tv detectives, Rockford led a less than luxurious life. He lived and worked out of a trailer and was constantly being hounded by people he owed. He was often assisted by his father, Rocky, played by Noah Beery Jr. or his friend, Angel, played by Stuart Margolin. Every episode started with an amusing message left on Rockford's answering machine. Rockford Files ran on NBC for six seasons (Sept. 1974 - Jan. 1980) and there were eight reunion movies.

Scene from Season One of Rockford Files Police Woman Angie Dickenson as Pepper Anderson on Police Woman. | Source Angie Dickinson starred as Sergeant Pepper Anderson in the NBC series about a female undercover cop. Each week Pepper assumed a false identity, everything from teacher to hooker, in order to get the bad guy. Earl Holliman co-starred. Police Woman was a spin-off of Police Story and was reportedly President Gerald Ford's favorite show. The series aired from 1974 to 1978. Police Woman Clip Barnaby Jones Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether from the premiere of Barnaby Jones. | Source This long running CBS series starred Buddy Ebsen as retired private detective, Barnaby Jones. Lee Meriwether played daughter-in-law Betty Jones and Mark Shera played Barnaby's cousin, Jedediah "J.R." Jones. Due to his age (Ebsen was 64 when the series began) Ebsen had very little screen time after the sixth season. The series ran from 1973 to 1980. Barnaby Jones Theme & Opening S.W.A.T.

Steve Forrest starred as Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, the leader of the Los Angeles Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics Division. This action packed series aired on ABC for two seasons from Feb. 1975 to April 1976. SWAT Theme Starsky & Hutch David Sole and Paul Michael Glaser. | Source Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul starred as detectives Dave Starsky and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson. The partners often went undercover and relied heavily on their friend/informant Huggy Bear, played by Antonio Fargas. Bernie Hamilton played gruff but lovable Captain Dobey. The series ran on ABC for four seasons from 1975 to 1979. Starsky & Hutch Intro Barney Miller The cast of Barney Miller. | Source Hal Linden starred as Captain Barney Miller, the precinct captain of a bunch of misfits in the New York City Police Department.

The detectives were played by Ron Glass (Detective Ron Harris), Max Gail (Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz), Abe Vigoda (Detective Phil Fish), Jack Soo (Detective Nick Yemana), Steve Landesberg ( Detective Arthur Deitrich), and Gregory Sierra (Detective Sergeant Chano Amenguale. The half hour comedy series ran on ABC for eight seasons (1975 - 1982) and won three Emmys. Barney Miller Intro Charlie's Angels Source "Once upon a time there were three little girls who went to the police academy." Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson starred as private detectives who were called to work for a mysterious benefactor known as Charlie. The women only communicated with Charlie by phone or through their handler, John Bosley (David Doyle). Throughout the series the girls went undercover as everything from prison inmates to wealthy heiress's. After Farrah Fawcett's departure several actresses filled her shoes including Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack and Tanya Roberts. This ABC show was just one of many successful seriers for producer Aaron Spelling. The show ran 1976 - 1981.

Charlie's Angels Intro (1976) ChiPS Source Erik Estrada starred as Francis "Ponch" Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as Jon Baker, patrolman for the California Highway Patrol. Ponch was the comedian, always getting himself in some sort of trouble. Jon was basically the straight man.The show aired on NBC for six seasons from Sept. 1977 to May 1983. CHiPS intro Baretta Robert Blake as Tony Baretta with his cockatoo named Fred. | Source Robert Blake played Tony Baretta, a streetwise undercover New York City cop who wasn't afraid to break the rules in order to get the bad guy. Baretta's sidekick and best bud was a cockatoo named Fred. The series ran on ABC for 4 seasons (Jan. 1975 - May 1978) Baretta is also known for its memorable theme "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow," sung by Sammy Davis Jr. Baretta Intro - Theme by Sammy Davis Jr. Honorable Mentions Blue Knight - George Kennedy played Bumper Morgan, a tough beat L.A. beat cop fighting to keep his neighborhood safe.

The series, which ran on CBS, was cancelled halfway through its second season. It ran from Dec. 1975 to Oct. 1976. Harry-O - David Janssen played private investigator, Harry Orwell. In the series Orwell was forced to retire from the force after being shot in the back. The ABC series ran from 1974 - 1976. Cannon - William Conrad played the over-weight, balding ex-cop with expensive tastes from 1971-1976. Mannix - Mike Connors starred as private eye, Joe Mannix. There were tons of car chases, shootings, and kidnappings during the run of the series. Gail Fisher played Peggy Fair, Mannix's secretary. How many of these shows to you remember? I remember them all by POSH by tori boutique 6 Obituary: Karl Malden | Film | The Guardian The Guardian Movies Karl Malden American actor won an Oscar for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire and starred in The Streets of San Francisco Karl Malden starred in The Streets of San Francisco in the 1970s.

Photograph: Araldo di Crollalanza / Rex Features Thursday 2 July 2009 10.12 EDT First published on Thursday 2 July 2009 10.12 EDT Share on Messenger Close For more than six decades Karl Malden, who has died at the age of 97 , brought his Method-trained acting talents to bear on powerhouse performances on screen, notably for Elia Kazan in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), for which he won an Oscar, and On The Waterfront (1954), as well as his mature cop in the long-running TV series The Streets of San Franscisco in the 1970s. Like WC Fields and Jimmy Durante, Malden had one of the most celebrated non-Roman noses in cinema. But whereas those of the two former entertainers produced a comic effect — Fields's bibulous one looked as if it were stuck on like a clown's, and Durante's schnozzle was like a carnival mask — Malden's proboscis seemed to add dramatic intensity to his performances. The more impassioned he became, the more the nose seemed to go on red alert.

This particularity of Malden's appearance came about because he broke his nose twice as a high school American footballer. He had won a scholarship to Arkansas state teachers college, but had to leave to support himself and his family by working in a steel mill in Gary, Indiana. Born Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago, he was brought up in Gary, where his father, Peter Sekulovich, who had been a provincial actor in Yugoslavia, was working in the mill. Karl also delivered milk to make money to go to New York, where he hoped to satisfy his ambition to become an actor. In New York, in the late 1930s, Malden joined the leftist Group Theatre, which was devoted to social realities and ensemble acting inspired by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Arts Theatre. Its leading light was the playwright Clifford Odets, in whose Golden Boy (1937) Malden appeared as a boxing manager. Also in the play was future director Kazan, with whom Malden was to work several times on stage and screen.

After Malden returned from army service during the second world war, he became a member of the newly formed Actors' Studio, among whom were Marlon Brando and Richard Widmark. In 1947, on Broadway, Kazan, one of the founders of the Actors' Studio, directed Malden in both Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. The latter, in which Malden played Mitch opposite Brando and Jessica Tandy, led to a contract with 20th Century-Fox. At the studio, Malden played vivid supporting roles in gritty thrillers such as Henry Hathaway's 13 Rue Madeleine and The Kiss Of Death, Kazan's Boomerang (all 1947) and Otto Preminger's Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950). He also added realism to the Henry King western The Gunfighter, and Lewis Milestone's war drama Halls Of Montezuma (both 1950).

During the same period, Malden appeared on Broadway as the Button Moulder in Lee Strasberg's production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, with John Garfield in the title role, and in Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, as the domineering patriarch. In 1951, Malden won the best supporting actor Oscar for reprising his stage role of Mitch, the shy, sweaty, balding middle-aged suitor of Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) in A Streetcar Named Desire, again directed by Kazan. The most pitiless moment comes when Malden snaps on the naked bulb to expose Blanche's ageing, powdered face to "reality". "I don't want the light, I want magic," she entreats. "Oh, I knew you weren't 16. But I was fool enough to believe you was straight," he replies, his voice trembling with emotion.

The following year, he was playing a man caught in the clutches of a femme fatale (Jennifer Jones) in King Vidor's Ruby Gentry and then the persistent cop who suspects Montgomery Clift's priest of murder in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953). If it were not already evident from his performances, the intelligence of an actor like Malden could be deduced from the number of major directors with whom he worked. In his best and most personal work he succeeded in exploring depths of moral ambiguity rare in the commercial cinema. He gave two further powerful performances for Kazan. In On The Waterfront, he was Oscar-nominated for his role as the tough, crusading dockland Catholic priest, Father Barry, who helps bring an end to crooked waterfront politics. Even better was his wonderful portrayal of Archie Lee, the cotton-mill owner husband of a backward thumb-sucking virgin child bride (Carroll Baker) in Baby Doll (1956).

Driven frantic by her refusal to allow him into her bed, even though it is a child's cot, too small for her ample proportions, the boorish, white-trash character is turned by Malden into a tragicomic figure uttering a sustained cry of sexual frustration. "Most actors want to be heroic, sexy and noble. Karl doesn't mind if you to make him look silly. He is more a real person than an actor," Kazan remarked at the time. In Robert Mulligan's Fear Strikes Out (1956), he played a well-meaning but domineering father who drives his highly strung son (Anthony Perkins) to the edge of madness — the two leads successfully vying with each other in the emotional stakes. Apart from having taken over much of the direction from Delmer Daves of the Gary Cooper western The Hanging Tree (1958), in which he had the role of a lecherous half-wit, Malden was credited with one film as director, Time Limit (1957), starring his friend Richard Widmark.

This Korean war drama was as taut and gripping as one of his performances, containing many of the pros and cons of his acting style, fervent but sometimes overemphatic. Brando also directed one film, One Eyed Jacks (1961), a rambling self-indulgent revenge western in which Malden played the heavy, a former outlaw who has betrayed Brando, and who had become a respectable sheriff. Brando's brooding, somnolent performance was counter-balanced by Malden's grinning, extrovert one. Included among Malden's many varied roles in the 1960s were in two films by John Frankenheimer; as the drunken father in All Fall Down, and the prison warder in Birdman of Alcatraz (both 1962), and was utterly charming in his only musical, Mervyn LeRoy's Gypsy (1962), though the one number which he got to sing, Together, with Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood, was cut from the final print. He was also the weak double-dealer in Norman Jewison's The Cincinnati Kid (1965).

For much of the 1970s Malden was busy playing the veteran police officer Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone in The Streets of San Francisco on television. A widower with 23 years' experience of the force, he was partnered by Michael Douglas as the 28-year-old Steve Keller, a college graduate. This lively combination — wise old head versus eager young enthusiast — produced enough sparks to keep it going for five seasons. Before the series began, Kirk Douglas told his son, "If anyone can teach you how to act it's Karl". The rest of his film career was rather patchy; he made up the cast of a few disaster films, turned up in Blake Edwards's misconceived "existential" western The Wild Rovers (1971), appeared in the dire sequel The Sting II (1982), but made a convincing General Omar Bradley in Patton (1970), having spent some time with the general before taking on the role. His last appearance on screen was as a priest in an episode of The West Wing (2000). From 1989 Malden was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Ten years later, he urged the academy to award an honorary Oscar to Elia Kazan. This was bitterly opposed by many who had never forgiven Kazan for being a "friendly witness" before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952. However, the apolitical Malden prevailed. "If anyone deserved this honorary award because of his talent and body of work, it was Kazan," he remarked. Malden, who is survived by his wife of more than 70 years, the former actor Mona Graham, and two daughters, once commented: "I've been incredibly lucky. I always knew I wasn't a leading man — take a took at this face! But I felt: if I can make it the way I look, others can." The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series 1972–1977) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

Error The Streets of San Francisco 1h A veteran cop with more than 20 years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco. Creator: A supposedly reformed sex offender is being brainwashed by his psychiatrist into believing he has committed murder. 8.4 The remains of an inmate at the Alcatraz Federal Prison was discovered between a wall during some repairs. It was thought that the inmate Lou Kovic escaped 20 years earlier, but Mike and Steve ... 8.3 Four killers kidnap the jury of a man they admire. They threaten to kill the jurors if their demands are not met. 8.1 User Lists Related lists from IMDb users a list of 40 titles created 13 Feb 2011 a list of 24 titles created 16 Aug 2012 a list of 43 titles created 19 Aug 2012 a list of 43 titles created 07 Sep 2014 a list of 28 titles created 8 months ago Title: The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977) 7.3/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site?

Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 4 wins & 21 nominations. See more awards » Photos A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city. Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson Frank Cannon is an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures; he becomes a high-priced private investigator. Stars: William Conrad, Patrick Culliton, Tom Pittman 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X Sam McCloud is a Marshal from a Taos, New Mexico, who takes a temporary assignment in the New York City Police. His keen sense of detail and detecting subtle clues, learned from his experience, enable him to nab unsuspecting criminals despite his unbelieving boss. Stars: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter The cases of maverick undercover New York City detective Tony Baretta. Stars: Robert Blake, Tom Ewell, Michael D.

Roberts The exploits of milk-swilling, geriatric private eye Barnaby Jones. Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Mark Shera Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside battles the bad guys on the streets of San Francisco. Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett. Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong Mannix worked originally for Wickersham at Intertect and then struck out on his own, assisted by Peggy Fair (whose cop-husband had been killed) and police department contact Tobias. Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Ward Wood Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red-and-white Ford Torino, with the help of police snitch, Huggy Bear. Stars: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas The cases of a coroner who investigates suspicious deaths that usually suggest murder. Stars: Jack Klugman, John S.

Ragin, Robert Ito San Francisco Police Commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his amateur detective wife keep their marriage unpredictable while solving the city's most baffling crimes. Stars: Rock Hudson, John Schuck, Susan Saint James This was the first TV cop show to feature a female lead - Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Stars: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop Edit Storyline A pair of plainclothes homicide detectives, Lt. Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller, cruise the streets of San Francisco solving a variety of crimes, usually involving murder. Stone is the street-smart 20-year veteran cop, and Keller is the college-educated rookie. Much of the series' success was due to the friendly by-play and relationship between the two leads. Written by Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com> Taglines: Rugged drama of the city and its people.

Starring Karl Malden and co-starring Michael Douglas (season 1) Genres: 16 September 1972 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Las calles de San Francisco See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia In the San Francisco police department, an "Inspector" is just a detective rank. In other police departments, an Inspector is a much higher rank (in the NYPD, Inspector is the rank above Captain; in the UK police, an Inspector is equivalent to a Lieutenant). See more » Crazy Credits End credits (from seasons 2-5): Photographed Completely On Location in San Francisco. In season 1, the production was split with exteriors filmed in San Francisco and interior scenes filmed at the Burbank Studios in Burbank, California. See more » Connections Republic Pictures Home Video Releases 18 April 2001 | by imdb-99 (San Francisco) – See all my reviews Republic Pictures' five released VHS videos which represent eight different episodes are, I hope, the first of a complete series release.

In recent years, "Streets" has been relegated to the pre-dawn graveyard of Indie and cable television stations, edited down to allow for more ghastly, no-budget local ads (trade schools, lawyers, and the like). Nowadays, low self-esteem broadcasters plaster their logos and moving promo messages along the bottom of the as if the program is an interruption of their commercials. So, what a treat to see these classic episodes without all of these distractions. Although popular enough to run for five seasons, it never received the credit it deserved -- none of the hype of a "Charlie's Angels," for example. It's too bad that Michael Douglas didn't stick with the show. His performances in "Streets" and "The China Syndrome" are among his best. I'm crossing my fingers that he'll consider returning to a follow-up "Streets" later in his career, taking the senior detective's role that Malden held in the original. "Streets" always had tight scripts, good plotting, and interesting characters -- even if they pandered to stereotypes a little. Way ahead of its time, gay themes are treated with surprising tact and good taste.

In the episode "Harem," guest star Rick Nelson plays a gay pimp for female prostitutes (a novel idea in and of itself). The word "gay" is never used, but Steve (Douglas) simply tells Mike (Malden) that, "he's not exactly what you'd call a ladies man." The two-hour special "Thrill Killers," is perhaps the most interesting release. Patty Duke Astin plays a not-too-thinly disguised Patty Hearst (a headline story at that time) who takes a whole jury hostage and begins killing them one by one. It's a relief not to have to wait a week to see part two. The least interesting of these releases is "Dead Air," starring Larry Hagman as a radio talk show host (reminiscent of Bill Balance's Feminine Forum, an innovative show at the time). The studio scenes are completely unrealistic and the killer can be guessed before the end of Act 1. Unfortunately, none of these eight releases includes an episode from "Streets" most famous director, Richard Donner ("The Omen" and "Lethal Weapon" series.) Maybe they'll release some of his episodes on DVD with a director's commentary?

Also missing is what I consider to be the best episode of the series, "Mask of Death," which has an amazing performance by John Davidson as a female impersonator. 11 of 16 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Karl Malden - IMDb IMDb Actor | Soundtrack | Director Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden didn't learn how to communicate a single word of English until he was in kindergarten. Raised in Gary, IN, a medium-sized steel town, Malden--like many other young men in Gary--got a job in a steel factory when he finished school. He worked there for three years... See full bio » Born: a list of 25 people created 11 Jan 2011 a list of 25 people created 17 Jan 2011 a list of 27 people created 09 Aug 2013 a list of 35 people created 20 Jun 2015 a list of 30 people created 09 Jan 2016 Do you have a demo reel?

Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Karl Malden's work have you seen? User Polls Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 13 nominations. See more awards » Known For The Streets of San Francisco Detective Lt. Mike Stone / Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone (1972-1977) Patton Gen. Omar N.

Bradley (1970) 1991 Absolute Strangers (TV Movie) Fred Zusselman 1990 Call Me Anna (TV Movie) Doctor Harold Arlen 1984 Fatal Vision (TV Mini-Series) Freddy Kassab 1981 Word of Honor (TV Movie) Mike McNeill 1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "The Walrus and the Carpenter") 1962 Gypsy (performer: "Together, Wherever We Go" (1959) - uncredited) 1962 How the West Was Won (performer: "Home in the Meadow" (1962)) Hide 2000 The Life and Times of Kirk Douglas (Video documentary short) (special thanks) Hide 2007 Brando (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2006 A Man Named Brando (Video documentary short) Himself 2006 A Streetcar in Hollywood (Video documentary short) Himself 2006 A Streetcar on Broadway (Video documentary short) Himself 2006 Censorship and Desire (Video documentary short) Himself 2006 Hollywood

 Greats (TV Series documentary) Himself 2004 Imagine (TV Series documentary) Himself 2004 Larry King Live (TV Series) Himself 1999-2000 Biography (TV Series documentary) Himself 1995 Barbra: The Concert (TV Special documentary) Himself - Concert Attendee (uncredited) 1992 Oscar's Greatest Moments (Video documentary) Himself / Host 1987 Unsolved Mysteries (TV Series documentary) Himself - Host 1967 Caine Below Zero (Documentary short) Himself / Leo Newbigen 1960-1962 Here's Hollywood (TV Series) Himself Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role & Presenter: Best Writing, Screenplay Hide 2011 Marlon Brando tuli Suomeen (TV Movie documentary) Himself (uncredited) 1989-2003 American Masters (TV Series documentary) Father Barry / Himself 1999 60 Minutes Wednesday (TV Series documentary) Himself - Actor (segment "Classic: Arthur Miller") Personal Details Other Works: He acted in Maxwell Anderson's play, "Key Largo," at the

 Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen and Paul Muni in the cast.

See more » Publicity Listings: 1 Print Biography | 6 Articles | 1 Pictorial | 3 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Alternate Names: Cpl. Karl Malden | Malden Sekulovich Height: Did You Know? Personal Quote: I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going. See more » Trivia: Remained good friends with Michael Douglas , during and after The Streets of San Francisco (1972). See more » Trademark: Bulbous, mis-shapen nose - he broke it twice playing sports as a teenager See more » Star Sign: The Streets of San Francisco (1972) - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com The Streets of San Francisco (1972) Follow EDIT Welcome to The Streets of San Francisco guide at TV.com. "Inspectors eight-one, responding." This 70's crime drama was one of many Quinn Martin Production shows, a roster which included Cannon, The FBI, The Fugitive and Barnaby Jones.

It was filmed entirely on location in San Francisco. The show first aired on September 16, 1972 in a time slot of Saturday at 9 p.m., playing against two popular half-hour shows, Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart. Due to the success of its first season, it moved into a more prominent spot -- Thursdays at 10, and later, Thursdays at 9, showing in the same time slot as Kojak, Ironside, and Barnaby Jones. The Streets of San Francisco starred Karl Malden as veteran detective Mike Stone and Michael Douglas as Steve Keller, a rookie detective who is college- educated in a workingman's SFPD. The show ran for a total of five seasons. After the second episode of the 1976-77 season, Michael Douglas left the show; writers explained that Steve Keller was going to pursue a teaching career. The insufferably pretty Richard Hatch was chosen to play the ingenue-detective role, but the show foundered and lasted for only another season, airing for the last time on June 23, 1977.

moreless Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Dies at 97 - The New York Times The New York Times Movies |Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Dies at 97 Search Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Dies at 97 By ROBERT BERKVIST Photo Karl Malden with Vivien Leigh in "Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951. Credit Warner Bros., via Photofest Karl Malden , the Academy Award-winning character actor who for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television, from “A Streetcar Named Desire” to “The Streets of San Francisco,” died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97. His family announced his death to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which Mr. Malden served as president from 1989 to 1992. The announcement said family members were present when he died of natural causes in his home in the Brentwood section. Mr. Malden was perhaps the ideal Everyman.

He realized early on that he lacked the physical attributes of a leading man; he often joked about his blunt features, particularly his crooked, bulbous nose, which he had broken several times while playing basketball in school. But he was, he once said, determined “to be No. 1 in the No. 2 parts I was destined to get.” He wound up playing everything from a whiskey-swigging cowboy to a prison warden, from an Army drill sergeant to the combative priest opposite Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront.” Continue reading the main story On Broadway he appeared with Mr. Brando in a legendary production of Tennessee Williams’s “Streetcar Named Desire,” then repeated the role in a film version that brought him an Oscar. On film he won memorable parts in a host of other major productions, including “Ruby Gentry,” “Fear Strikes Out” and “Patton,” in which he played Gen. Omar Bradley. Advertisement Continue reading the main story On television, too, he found wide popularity — as the gruff Lt. Mike Stone in “The Streets of San Francisco” and as a long-running pitchman for American Express travelers’ checks in the 1970s.

His signature line, “Don’t leave home without them” — delivered as he peered intently from under the brim of his “San Francisco” fedora — became a national catch phrase. Mr. Malden’s Broadway career began in 1937 with a small part in “Golden Boy,” the Clifford Odets drama about a doomed prizefighter; it reached its peak a decade later, in 1947, when he appeared in two major plays, both directed by Elia Kazan. He began the year in “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s searing drama about a profiteering manufacturer (played by Ed Begley) who sells faulty parts to the Army during World War II and then pins the blame on his partner. Mr. Malden played the partner’s disillusioned son. It was Mr. Miller’s first Broadway hit and a triumph for Mr. Kazan and the cast. Photo Karl Malden, left, and his partner, played by Richard Hatch, gathered information in "The Streets of San Francisco." Credit Everett Collection A few months later, Mr. Malden won a plum role in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The production made a star of Mr.

Brando, who created the role of the brooding, hard-drinking mechanic Stanley Kowalski. The cast also included Kim Hunter as Stella, Stanley’s long-suffering wife, and Jessica Tandy as Stella’s fragile, haunted sister, Blanche DuBois. Mr. Malden played Mitch, Blanche’s hopelessly inept suitor. The production won rave reviews and Mr. Malden, Mr. Brando and Ms. Hunter repeated their roles in the 1951 film version, also directed by Mr. Kazan, with Vivien Leigh as Blanche. Mr. Malden’s performance brought him an Academy Award as best supporting actor. Three years later, he received an Oscar nomination for his role as a militant priest in “On the Waterfront,” Budd Schulberg’s drama of dockside brutality. Again, Mr. Kazan directed and Mr. Brando starred, as a battered former prizefighter persuaded to oppose the venal leadership of the longshoremen’s union. Mr.

Malden continued performing on the stage in Broadway revivals of Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt,” with John Garfield and Mildred Dunnock, and Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms,” in which he starred as the flinty patriarch of a hardscrabble New England farm. In 1957 he played the lead role in “The Egghead,” a drama by Mr. Kazan’s wife, Molly, about a liberal professor who defends a former student charged with Communist sympathies. Brooks Atkinson, writing in The New York Times, was cool to what he saw as a strained thesis play, but he lauded “one of those excellent Malden performances in which thoughtful timing, the poised stance, the inquiring look into the faces of other actors yield a winning impression of homeliness and sincerity.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story When “The Egghead” closed after only 21 performances, Mr. Malden turned to films. For a while he shuttled between New York and Hollywood, but finally, after co-starring with Mr.

Brando in the 1961 western “One-Eyed Jacks,” he bought a house in Los Angeles and moved west with his wife, Mona, and two daughters, Mila and Carla. In December, the couple celebrated their 70th anniversary. In addition to his wife, Mr. Malden is survived by his daughters as well as three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was born Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago on March 22, 1912. His father, Petar Sekulovich, was a Serbian immigrant who worked in a steel mill and later delivered milk; his mother, the former Minnie Sebera, came from Bohemia, later to become part of the Czech Republic. As a young man, Mladen helped his father deliver milk in Gary, Ind., and spent three years working in a steel mill. At 22, having acquired a taste for the theater and determined to make his own life far from the mills, he set off for Chicago with a few hundred dollars in savings to study acting at the Goodman Theater. He earned tuition by building sets and eventually met the woman he would marry, an aspiring actress named Mona Greenberg.

Photo Karl Malden at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2004. Credit Mike Blake/Reuters He graduated from the Goodman in 1937 but found himself back in Gary driving a milk truck, much as his father had. Luck came along in a letter from Robert Ardrey, a playwright he had met at the Goodman. Mr. Ardrey invited him to New York to try out for a part in his latest play. That play was never produced, but Mr. Malden also auditioned for the director Harold Clurman and Mr. Kazan, who were casting “Golden Boy” for the Group Theater. He wound up with “four lines in the third act,” he later wrote, but it was a significant initiation. The Group Theater and “Golden Boy” began an enduring friendship between Mr. Malden and Mr. Kazan. It was Mr. Kazan, in fact, who persuaded the young actor to change his name to something less daunting. So Mladen became Malden, and he took the name Karl from one of his grandfathers.

He also took classes with the Group Theater in the early 1940s and later with the Actors Studio, but he did not regard himself as one of the studio’s Method actors. “I do have a method, of course,” he wrote in his 1997 autobiography, “When Do I Start?” He said it was “any method that works.” Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up Privacy Policy After serving in the Army in World War II, Mr. Malden played a drunken sailor in a Clurman and Kazan production of Maxwell Anderson’s 1946 play “Truckline Cafe.” The play was a flop, but Mr. Malden got good notices. The reviews also took note of another young actor who had made the most of a small role: Mr. Brando. The two actors became friends, and little more than a year later, they and Mr. Kazan collaborated on “Streetcar.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr.

Malden had made a handful of movies before “Streetcar,” including “Kiss of Death” (1947), “The Gunfighter” (1950) and “Halls of Montezuma” (1950). But his Oscar-winning performance in “Streetcar” made Mr. Malden one of Hollywood’s leading character actors. He went on to portray the wealthy man Jennifer Jones marries to spite Charlton Heston in “Ruby Gentry” (1952); the policeman in Alfred Hitchcock’s “I Confess” (1953); and the slow-witted husband of a child bride in “Baby Doll” (1956), another Tennessee Williams story directed by Mr. Kazan. In 1962 he was the doggedly loving boyfriend of Rosalind Russell in “Gypsy,” and in 1970 he won critical praise for his stalwart General Bradley in “Patton,” starring George C. Scott. With his movie career tailing off in the early 1970s, Mr. Malden reluctantly tried his hand at television.

“I felt that I had started at the bottom in the theater and worked my way up for 20 years, then started at the bottom with bit parts in films and worked my way up for another 20 years,” he wrote in his autobiography. “I didn’t feel like starting at the bottom again.” Photo Karl Malden, a former steelworker who won an Oscar for his role as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire. Credit Associated Press Still, he agreed to star in a new detective series on ABC, “The Streets of San Francisco.” Making its debut in 1972, the show was an immediate hit and ran through June 1977. The sidekick to Mr. Malden’s Lieutenant Stone was Michael Douglas, who left the show in 1976. He appeared in a few more movies in the 1980s, notably as the stepfather of Barbra Streisand’s call girl in Martin Ritt’s film “Nuts.” There were television shows, including the 1980 NBC series “Skag,” in which he reached back to his roots to play a hard-bitten foreman in a steel mill.

In the 1984 NBC drama “Fatal Vision,” he played a man who belatedly realizes that his son-in-law is a murderer. His performance brought him an Emmy award. In one of his last appearances, in “The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro,” a 1989 made-for-television movie, he was cast as Leon Klinghoffer, the American Jew who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists on a Mediterranean cruise ship. And in 2000, in the first season of “The West Wing,” he played a priest one last time, counseling President Jed Bartlet on the death penalty. In 1989 Mr. Malden began his term as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization responsible for the Academy Awards. Ten years later he used that standing in Hollywood to urge the academy’s board to award an honorary Oscar to his old friend and mentor Elia Kazan. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The recommendation was bitterly opposed by those who had never forgiven Mr. Kazan for testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952 and informing on colleagues who had been members of the Communist Party. But the board voted its approval.

“If anyone deserved this honorary award because of his talent and body of work,” Mr. Malden said after the vote, “it was Kazan.” Mr. Malden never forgot his beginnings as a son of immigrants, nor did he lose his perspective. Not long after his Oscar-winning work with Vivien Leigh in “Streetcar,” he referred to himself as probably “the only ex-milkman Vivien ever kissed in a movie.” In an interview nearly a half-century later, he said he thought of an actor’s work as “digging ditches.” “Sometimes they’re deep and sometimes they’re shallow,” he said, “but we keep digging them.” A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A21 of the New York edition with the headline: Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Is Dead at 97. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe Hollywood Dreamland: In Memoriam: Karl Malden Hollywood Dreamland Musings on the Golden Age of Hollywood. Thursday, July 2, 2009 In Memoriam: Karl Malden Another piece of my childhood died this week. Karl Malden, age 97.

That’s a hell of a ride and one great career. Those from my generation know Malden first and foremost as Detective Mike Stone in the 1970s cop show, The Streets of San Francisco, which my grandfather and I watched together when I was a kid (come to think of it, why aren't those TV programs ever rerun anymore? I haven't seen an episode of Streets in twenty-five years). Malden is also remembered from those omnipresent American Express commercials where he would end each ad with “American Express Traveler’s Checks; don’t leave home without them!” I always thought he was so authoritative and that it was Malden-as-Mike Stone telling us to buy those traveler's checks! Maybe it was because he was always wearing that fedora. Ever see his early role in 1950’s Where the Sidewalk Ends?

In it, Malden plays a by-the-book police lieutenant, kind of an early dry run for Mike Stone, who isn’t often mentioned as one of the 1970s great police characters, but if you’ve ever watched the show, you’re probably a fan of it and of Karl Malden—at least that’s how I became aware and appreciative of this man’s ability. My favorite Karl Malden performances were On the Waterfront (1954), where he’s the decent man of the cloth and in Patton (1970), in which he was just about perfect as General Omar Bradley. I felt he should’ve been Oscar-nominated for that role. Malden was already an Academy-Award winner, for 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire. However, being the excellent character actor that he was, Malden could also play a villain with equal expertise. He was fantastic as a mean S.O.B. Sheriff in One-Eyed Jacks (1961)--a great movie nobody ever heard of--and as an outlaw gang leader in Nevada Smith (1966). When these actors die I think of what a forceful presence they were on screen.

You take them for granted because they’re always around- sturdy, reliable, and when a man lives to be nearly 100, they really have been around as long as anyone can remember! These aren’t the kinds of deaths that sadden me, as Malden lived to fulfill his career potential and was a successful working actor for fifty years. I wish all beloved movie stars lived this long, so we wouldn’t mourn their unfulfilled potential, but rather celebrate their lives and careers, as we can with Karl Malden. What a Cast: Karl Malden with fellow Oscar winners Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront." Posted by Karl Malden - TV.com Karl Malden EDIT Karl Malden was an actor most famously remembered for his role as Detective Mike Stone in the hit television show of the 1970's, The Streets of San Francisco.

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His Bosnian Serb father, Petar Sekulović (1886–1975), worked in the steel mills and as a milkman, and his mother, Minnie (née Sebera) Sekulovich (22 March 1892 – 15 July 1995), was a Czech seamstress and actress. The Sekulovich family's roots trace back to Podosoje near Bileća, Herzegovina. Malden only spoke Serbian until he was in kindergarten a ... (展开) nd was fluent in the language until his death. Malden's father had a passion for music, and organized a choir. As a teenager, Malden joined the Karageorge Choir. His father then produced Serbian plays at his church and taught acting. A young Malden took part in many of these plays, which included a version of Jack and the Beanstalk, but mostly centered on the community's Serbian heritage. In high school, he was a popular student and the star of the basketball team (according to his autobiography, Malden broke his nose twice while playing, taking elbows to the face and resulting in his trademark bulbous nose).

He participated in the drama department, and was narrowly elected senior class president. Among other roles, he played Pooh-Bah in The Mikado. After graduating from Emerson High School in 1931 with high marks, he briefly planned to leave Gary for Arkansas, where he hoped to win an athletic scholarship, but college officials did not admit him owing to his refusal to play any sport besides basketball. From 1931 until 1934, he worked in the steel mills, as had his father.[citation needed] He changed his name from Mladen Sekulovich to Karl Malden at age 22. He anglicized his first name by swapping its letters "l" and "a" and used it as his last; taking his grandfather's first name as his own. This was because the first theatre company he was in wanted him to shorten his name for its marquee. He thought that they wanted to fire him and were using his name as an excuse; although that wasn't the case, he still changed his name to give them no excuse.[citation needed] Malden often found ways to say "Sekulovich" in films and television shows in which he appeared.

For example, as General Omar Bradley in Patton, as his troops slog their way through enemy fire in Sicily, Malden says "Hand me that helmet, Sekulovich" to another soldier. In Dead Ringer, as a police detective in the squad room, Malden tells another detective: "Sekulovich, gimme my hat." In Fear Strikes Out, Malden, playing Jimmy Piersall's father John, introduces Jimmy to a baseball scout named Sekulovich.[citation needed] In Birdman of Alcatraz, as a prison warden touring the cell block, Malden recites a list of inmates' names, including Sekulovich. (Malden's father was not pleased, as he told his son "Mladen, no Sekulovich has ever been in prison!") In On the Waterfront, in which Malden plays the priest, among the names of the officers of Local 374 called out in the courtroom scene is Mladen Sekulovich, Delegate.

Perhaps the most notable usage of his real name, however, was in the television series The Streets of San Francisco, where Malden's character, Mike Stone, employed a legman (played by Art Metrano) with that name.[citation needed]

Question: In which 1970's police drama did Karl Malden play 'Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone'?
Answer: 'THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO'