FrameThrower · Actors · Karl Malden
Karl Malden
4 films · 161 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1951–1970
Born 22 March 1912 · Chicago, Illinois, USA · died 1 July 2009
Karl Malden was an Serbian-American actor. He was primarily a character actor who for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television, especially in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor — On the Waterfront (1954), Pollyanna (1960), and One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Malden also played in high-profile Hollywood films such as Baby Doll (1956), The Hanging Tree (1959), How the West Was Won (1962), Gypsy (1962) and Patton (1970). From 1972 to 1977, he portrayed Lt. Mike Stone in the prime time television crime drama The Streets of San Francisco.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 161 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1951–1970
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1952
- Golden Globe Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1985
- Mary Pickford Award
- Donaldson Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 161 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Karl takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Karl takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 161 frames from Karl Malden's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.