Barry Newman, the Emmy-nominated actor who starred in the 1971 cult action thriller “Vanishing Point” and as the eponymous lawyer in the NBC series “Petrocelli,” died on May 11. He was 92. No further details are currently available on his death.
In “Vanishing Point,” Newman played former race car driver Kowalski, a speedster that darts around in a Dodge Challenger after becoming entangled in a criminal conspiracy. The film is regarded as one of the defining American action films of the ’70s by genre enthusiasts.
Two decades and change later, Newman would play a heavy in Steven Soderbergh’s fractured crime yarn “The Limey,” which featured a second act car chase involving the actor getting back behind the wheel.
Newman was born in Boston on Nov. 7, 1938, where he would attend Boston Latin School and go on to attend Brandeis University. During his education, Newman met Lee Strasberg and became inspired to pursue acting.
In “Vanishing Point,” Newman played former race car driver Kowalski, a speedster that darts around in a Dodge Challenger after becoming entangled in a criminal conspiracy. The film is regarded as one of the defining American action films of the ’70s by genre enthusiasts.
Two decades and change later, Newman would play a heavy in Steven Soderbergh’s fractured crime yarn “The Limey,” which featured a second act car chase involving the actor getting back behind the wheel.
Newman was born in Boston on Nov. 7, 1938, where he would attend Boston Latin School and go on to attend Brandeis University. During his education, Newman met Lee Strasberg and became inspired to pursue acting.
- 6/4/2023
- by McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
We’ve seen television series and movies impact public perception of a criminal case; the entire true crime genre takes established narratives and finds a way to either create something new or dramatize what is already heightened. With that comes the caveat that what is being presented is a dramatic re-interpretation, changed to engage a narrative audience. Or is it? As documentarian and author Errol Morris lays out in “A Wilderness of Error,” humans are incredibly stubborn and willing to make the facts fit their beliefs, even if they’re wrong.
In February 1970 Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald’s pregnant wife and two daughters were found brutally murdered in their home. MacDonald claimed that a gang of hippies, led by a blonde woman in a floppy hat, entered his house and killed everyone. It made sense right away, particularly as the Manson family killings took place just six months before.
In February 1970 Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald’s pregnant wife and two daughters were found brutally murdered in their home. MacDonald claimed that a gang of hippies, led by a blonde woman in a floppy hat, entered his house and killed everyone. It made sense right away, particularly as the Manson family killings took place just six months before.
- 9/25/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
There comes a moment in Marc Smerling’s FX/Blumhouse-produced documentary “A Wilderness of Error” where the suspect, as described by the lone survivor of a brutal triple murder, is found. This means the remaining story will be focused on how the survivor was eventually exonerated, right? Not so — and, in fact, it is only from this revelation that the true intent of Smerling’s story comes to light.
Smerling has been down this road before when it comes to true crime. He was the producer of the 2015 HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” which eventually saw Durst arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Smerling also served as screenwriter on the Durst biopic that stared Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, “All Good Things,” released in 2010.
Looking to dissociate himself from the Durst-ian world, he started the podcast “Crimetown” in 2016. And yet the story of how...
Smerling has been down this road before when it comes to true crime. He was the producer of the 2015 HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” which eventually saw Durst arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Smerling also served as screenwriter on the Durst biopic that stared Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, “All Good Things,” released in 2010.
Looking to dissociate himself from the Durst-ian world, he started the podcast “Crimetown” in 2016. And yet the story of how...
- 9/23/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
The case of Jeffrey MacDonald has inspired a greater volume of writing than anyone might have predicted decades ago — or, perhaps, than the facts of the case would seem to warrant. MacDonald, a U.S. military officer and physician accused and convicted of murdering his wife (pregnant at the time) and two children in 1970, was first the subject of Joe McGinniss’s book “Fatal Vision.” That book, which turned on McGinniss’s extreme access to MacDonald’s legal team and built to the author’s conclusion that the man was indeed guilty, inspired not merely lawsuits (settled out of court) but also Janet Malcolm’s 1990 book “The Journalist and the Murderer,” which uses McGinniss as evidence of the idea that the betrayal of sources in service of a narrative is central to the practice of journalism.
And now, once again, Errol Morris enters the fray. The FX documentary series “A Wilderness of Error,...
And now, once again, Errol Morris enters the fray. The FX documentary series “A Wilderness of Error,...
- 9/16/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
The FX docuseries A Wilderness of Error takes a deep dive into the case of Army surgeon and Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald, who was convicted in 1979 of killing his wife and two daughters nearly a decade earlier. The series premieres September 25, with episodes available the next day on Hulu.
Based on Errol Morris’ book A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald, the series follows the chain of events leading to one of the most noteworthy true crimes of the 20th century. The five-part nonfiction series explores the rumored narratives of the murders as well its media aftermath.
Director and EP Marc Smerling joined author and famed documentarian Morris for today’s virtual FX panel to talk about the crime series. The Oscar-nominated helmer said the series is more about the presentation of evidence than a definitive take on MacDonald’s guilt or innocence.
“One of the confounding things...
Based on Errol Morris’ book A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald, the series follows the chain of events leading to one of the most noteworthy true crimes of the 20th century. The five-part nonfiction series explores the rumored narratives of the murders as well its media aftermath.
Director and EP Marc Smerling joined author and famed documentarian Morris for today’s virtual FX panel to talk about the crime series. The Oscar-nominated helmer said the series is more about the presentation of evidence than a definitive take on MacDonald’s guilt or innocence.
“One of the confounding things...
- 9/9/2020
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
FX has set a premiere date for the docuseries “A Wilderness of Error,” based on the book of the same name by Errol Morris.
The series from producers Marc Smerling and Jason Blum, producers of HBO’s “The Jinx” dives into the story of Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald, who was sent to prison for killing his family amid a storm of swirling narratives. Per FX, the series “challenges our very ability to find the truth all the while overshadowing a chilling possibility: MacDonald may be an innocent man.”
The first three episodes will premiere back-to-back on Friday, Sept. 25, with the final two episodes to follow a week later.
Also Read: 'What We Do in the Shadows' Showrunner Teases Gargoyles, Hellhounds and a Search for Love in Season 3 (Video)
Prior to the series premiere, Smerling will also launch a companion podcast, “Morally (In)Defensible,” with Sony Music Entertainment. The podcast follows...
The series from producers Marc Smerling and Jason Blum, producers of HBO’s “The Jinx” dives into the story of Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald, who was sent to prison for killing his family amid a storm of swirling narratives. Per FX, the series “challenges our very ability to find the truth all the while overshadowing a chilling possibility: MacDonald may be an innocent man.”
The first three episodes will premiere back-to-back on Friday, Sept. 25, with the final two episodes to follow a week later.
Also Read: 'What We Do in the Shadows' Showrunner Teases Gargoyles, Hellhounds and a Search for Love in Season 3 (Video)
Prior to the series premiere, Smerling will also launch a companion podcast, “Morally (In)Defensible,” with Sony Music Entertainment. The podcast follows...
- 7/30/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Marc Smerling and Sony Music Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to develop a slate of original podcast programming through Smerling’s Truth Media, a podcast and television production company. The pact is to expand Truth’s overall number of podcast series it produces, including several upcoming true-crime shows.
First under the new deal is Morally (In)Defensible, a companion to Smerling’s new TV docuseries A Wilderness of Error, which he directed and executive produced with Blumhouse Television and Ucp for FX Networks that will air later this year on FX and FX on Hulu. The podcast will follow the story of journalist Joe McGinniss in the writing of his smash bestseller Fatal Vision, also about the MacDonald murders. It will be released prior to the airing of the docuseries later this year.
Smerling’s podcast credits include two seasons of Crimetown on Apple Podcast as well as...
First under the new deal is Morally (In)Defensible, a companion to Smerling’s new TV docuseries A Wilderness of Error, which he directed and executive produced with Blumhouse Television and Ucp for FX Networks that will air later this year on FX and FX on Hulu. The podcast will follow the story of journalist Joe McGinniss in the writing of his smash bestseller Fatal Vision, also about the MacDonald murders. It will be released prior to the airing of the docuseries later this year.
Smerling’s podcast credits include two seasons of Crimetown on Apple Podcast as well as...
- 7/1/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Could Miguel Ferrer become a posthumous Emmy nominee for “Twin Peaks: The Return”? The veteran character actor died of throat cancer in January 2017 after he shot the Showtime revival, in which he reprised his role as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield. The TV academy often rewards stars who have died with nominations for their final performances, so could Ferrer compete for Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actor? Despite a long list of TV credits including “The Stand” (1994), “Crossing Jordan” (2001-2007), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (2012-2017) and many more, he never earned an Emmy nomination during his lifetime.
Ferrer first appeared in the original “Twin Peaks” in a recurring role as an abrasive and sarcastic FBI forensics specialist assisting Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in his murder investigation in the title town. And he also appeared in the 1992 prequel film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.” The 18-episode limited run in 2017 found him...
Ferrer first appeared in the original “Twin Peaks” in a recurring role as an abrasive and sarcastic FBI forensics specialist assisting Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in his murder investigation in the title town. And he also appeared in the 1992 prequel film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.” The 18-episode limited run in 2017 found him...
- 7/10/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
The decades-long saga of convicted killer Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald and the murders of his family he has always denied committing will return to the spotlight with a new TV movie about the case: Final Vision, starring Scandal star Scott Foley.
The title of the film, premiering Sunday night on Investigation Discovery and exclusively previewed above, echoes that of a controversial 1983 book about the killings, Fatal Vision, written by journalist Joe McGinniss.
Final Vision traces the work of McGinniss, played by Dave Annable, after he was asked by MacDonald, a Green Beret surgeon, to write about him and his claims of...
The title of the film, premiering Sunday night on Investigation Discovery and exclusively previewed above, echoes that of a controversial 1983 book about the killings, Fatal Vision, written by journalist Joe McGinniss.
Final Vision traces the work of McGinniss, played by Dave Annable, after he was asked by MacDonald, a Green Beret surgeon, to write about him and his claims of...
- 12/6/2017
- by Adam Carlson and Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
John Gay, whose writing credits for film and TV include big-screen fare like Run Silent Run Deep and The Courtship of Eddie’s Father and, on the small screen reach back to television’s Golden Age and continued through the 1980s and ’90s with such mini-series as Fatal Vision and Cruel Doubt, died February 4 in Santa Monica. He was 92. His death was announced by the Writers Guild of America, West. Gay co-wrote a 2008 autobiography Any Way I Can – 50 Years in Show Business…...
- 2/23/2017
- Deadline TV
John Gay, whose writing credits for film and TV include big-screen fare like Run Silent Run Deep and The Courtship of Eddie’s Father and, on the small screen reach back to television’s Golden Age and continued through the 1980s and ’90s with such mini-series as Fatal Vision and Cruel Doubt, died February 4 in Santa Monica. He was 92. His death was announced by the Writers Guild of America, West. Gay co-wrote a 2008 autobiography Any Way I Can – 50 Years in Show Business…...
- 2/23/2017
- Deadline
John Gay, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter best known for his work on Run Silent Run Deep, Separate Tables and The Courtship of Eddie's Father, has died. He was 92.
Gay, who began his six-decade career as an actor and writer during the Golden Age of Television, died Feb. 4 in Santa Monica, the WGA announced. He often was in demand by the top directors of the day, scripting projects for the likes of Robert Wise, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli and John Sturges.
Gay also earned an Emmy nomination for scripting Fatal Vision, a controversial NBC 1984 docudrama about the 1970 Jeffrey...
Gay, who began his six-decade career as an actor and writer during the Golden Age of Television, died Feb. 4 in Santa Monica, the WGA announced. He often was in demand by the top directors of the day, scripting projects for the likes of Robert Wise, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli and John Sturges.
Gay also earned an Emmy nomination for scripting Fatal Vision, a controversial NBC 1984 docudrama about the 1970 Jeffrey...
- 2/23/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scott Foley‘s got a killer (or is it?) new role.
The Scandal star has signed on to Investigation Discovery’s Fatal Vision, in which he’ll play an Army captain convicted of murdering his family, our sister site Deadline reports.
The TV movie, based on Joe McGinniss’ nonfiction bestseller of the same name, chronicles the 1970 murders of pregnant Colette MacDonald and her daughters, Kimberly and Kristen. Foley’s character, Jeffery MacDonald, also was wounded in what he later told investigators was a ritualistic, Manson Family-style home invasion.
The Scandal star has signed on to Investigation Discovery’s Fatal Vision, in which he’ll play an Army captain convicted of murdering his family, our sister site Deadline reports.
The TV movie, based on Joe McGinniss’ nonfiction bestseller of the same name, chronicles the 1970 murders of pregnant Colette MacDonald and her daughters, Kimberly and Kristen. Foley’s character, Jeffery MacDonald, also was wounded in what he later told investigators was a ritualistic, Manson Family-style home invasion.
- 12/2/2016
- TVLine.com
Scandal’s Scott Foley is attached to star in Fatal Vision, a two-hour TV movie based on Joe McGinniss’ bestselling true-crime book for Investigation Discovery. The project, part of a five-movie deal with Lincoln Square Productions, is among the first for ID as the network ramps up its original movie slate. Foley will play Army Capt. Jeffery McDonald, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1979 for the 1970 murders of his wife and two children at their Fort…...
- 12/1/2016
- Deadline TV
Former Green Beret surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald got his last chance to convince an appellate court to overturn his 1979 murder convictions in the deaths of his wife and two daughters, filing a 59-page brief Tuesday evening detailing evidence he says proves his innocence. "After more than 30 years of exculpatory evidence steadily coming to light, our hope is that the court will agree Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald deserves the relief he has sought for so long: exoneration," Hart Miles, one of his attorneys, tells People. "The confessions of two individuals who admitted involvement in the murders of the MacDonald family, DNA that indicates...
- 9/7/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Former Green Beret surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald got his last chance to convince an appellate court to overturn his 1979 murder convictions in the deaths of his wife and two daughters, filing a 59-page brief Tuesday evening detailing evidence he says proves his innocence. "After more than 30 years of exculpatory evidence steadily coming to light, our hope is that the court will agree Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald deserves the relief he has sought for so long: exoneration," Hart Miles, one of his attorneys, tells People. "The confessions of two individuals who admitted involvement in the murders of the MacDonald family, DNA that indicates...
- 9/7/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Last year’s chart-topper Catherine the Great is still waiting to be produced and today we have this year’s editiong
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
- 12/15/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Television used to come in one type of package: episodic. Cops arrived at a murder scene, interviewed eccentric cameo players, bantered with regulars, and somehow figured that the highest-paid guest star did it. But if the lead actors were likable you half-watched the shows anyway, because in the pre-cable, pre-internet era, TV was more appliance than medium. One-offs occasionally found ways to spice up this bland recipe. The best was Columbo, which started by showing who did it and how, then fixated on duets between the rumpled prole hero and the guest murderers foolish enough to believe they could outsmart him. Every now and then you’d see a structural variation on the formula: a multipart adaptation of Fatal Vision, say, or Twin Peaks, or the barely remembered but influential Murder One (1995–97), which spent whole seasons on a single case. Those latter variations have belatedly become the model for the latest,...
- 3/6/2015
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
New York (AP) – Joe McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in The Selling of the President 1968 and tracked his personal journey from sympathizer to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster Fatal Vision, died Monday at age 71. McGinniss, who announced last year that he had been diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer, died from complications related to his disease. His attorney and longtime friend Dennis Holahan said he died at a hospital in Worcester, Mass. Few journalists of McGinniss' time so intrepidly pursued a story, burned so many
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- 3/11/2014
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 1970, Colette MacDonald and her two daughters were stabbed to death in a savage frenzy, setting in motion America's longest-running murder trial. After decades of legal wrangles, her husband, a military doctor, remains in jail for the crime. We spoke to Errol Morris, an Oscar-winning film-maker who has written a book about the case which reaches some startling conclusions…
The Oscar-winning film-maker Errol Morris made his name in 1988 with The Thin Blue Line, a bravura piece of documentary-making that gained the release from prison of an innocent man who had been on death row. But although he spent several years working on that investigation, it's not this crime that has maintained the most insistent hold on his intellect and imagination. That prize goes to one committed on 17 February 1970 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
He is not alone in his obsession. The killings that took place in the early hours...
The Oscar-winning film-maker Errol Morris made his name in 1988 with The Thin Blue Line, a bravura piece of documentary-making that gained the release from prison of an innocent man who had been on death row. But although he spent several years working on that investigation, it's not this crime that has maintained the most insistent hold on his intellect and imagination. That prize goes to one committed on 17 February 1970 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
He is not alone in his obsession. The killings that took place in the early hours...
- 4/13/2013
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
Like Crazy star Felicity Jones has joined James Franco and Jonah Hill in the film True Story. The movie is being directed by Rupert Goold, and it's based on the memoir by Michael Finkel, who's the disgraced New York Times journalist that resurrected some of his career after discovering that an accused murderer had stolen his identity, and that he would only talk to his namesake. This sounds like it will be a really good movie, it's definitely got an interesting story.
According to Deadline, "Hill is playing Finkel and Franco is playing Christian Longo, who was captured in Mexico after rising near the top of the FBI Ten Most Wanted List for allegedly killing his family... Jones will play the journalist’s long suffering girlfriend, who tries to stand by her guy even after his screw ups cost them everything."
Jones was recently cast in The Amazing Spider-Man 2,...
According to Deadline, "Hill is playing Finkel and Franco is playing Christian Longo, who was captured in Mexico after rising near the top of the FBI Ten Most Wanted List for allegedly killing his family... Jones will play the journalist’s long suffering girlfriend, who tries to stand by her guy even after his screw ups cost them everything."
Jones was recently cast in The Amazing Spider-Man 2,...
- 2/6/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Joe McGinniss, the author of "Fatal Vision," "Final Vision" and a 2011 Sarah Palin biography, announced that he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer last May. "I was diagnosed in May with advanced, metastatic prostate cancer," he wrote Wednesday on his Facebook page. "There is no cure, so sooner or later it's terminal." Also read: You Betcha Sarah Palin Will Be Hating on Biographer Joe McGinniss Despite the bad news, the 70-year-old says he feels "terrific" and doesn't plan on letting the disease prevent him from writing more material or living life to the...
- 1/24/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
I got my first — and terrifyingly memorable — look at Gary Cole in 1984, when I was a college girl living in a ramshackle house with a bunch of other college girls, and he starred in Fatal Vision, the chilling NBC miniseries about the case of Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald, a real-life doctor and Green Beret convicted of killing his family. The telefilm was a smash and Cole went on to have one of the most varied and prolific film and television careers in the business, including standout roles in The West Wing, Entourage, Talladega Nights … and, of course, [...]...
- 7/20/2012
- by Lori Acken
- ChannelGuideMag
President Bush awards the Medal of Freedom to Andy Griffith at the White House, 2007.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Fox News has reported that Andy Griffith, an icon of American comedy and television, has passed away at age 86. Griffith gained fame in the 1950s with hit comedy albums based on naive hillbilly characters. Before long, he was a Broadway and TV star. In 1960, he spun off a character introduced on a Danny Thomas TV episode and starred in The Andy Griffith Show. Griffith played Sheriff Andy Taylor of the small town of Mayberry. He was surrounded by a lovable group of eccentric country characters including his bumbling deputy Barney Fife, played by Griffith's old friend Don Knotts (who won five Emmys for his performance in the role). Griffith also produced successful TV series, notably Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C, a major hit starring Jim Nabors in the role he created on The Andy Griffith Show.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Fox News has reported that Andy Griffith, an icon of American comedy and television, has passed away at age 86. Griffith gained fame in the 1950s with hit comedy albums based on naive hillbilly characters. Before long, he was a Broadway and TV star. In 1960, he spun off a character introduced on a Danny Thomas TV episode and starred in The Andy Griffith Show. Griffith played Sheriff Andy Taylor of the small town of Mayberry. He was surrounded by a lovable group of eccentric country characters including his bumbling deputy Barney Fife, played by Griffith's old friend Don Knotts (who won five Emmys for his performance in the role). Griffith also produced successful TV series, notably Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C, a major hit starring Jim Nabors in the role he created on The Andy Griffith Show.
- 7/3/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill must have enjoyed working with each other on Moneyball because they are teaming up again for a new movie called True Story, which will also star James Franco. The film is based on a memoir by journalist Michael Finkel, and it's being directed by Rupert Goold.
According to Deadline, Hill will play Finkel, "who was a writer at The New York Times Magazine in 2002 when he learned that Christian Longo was captured in Mexico after a long stint on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List for killing his family. The strange part was that he had been living under the identity of Finkel. The very next day, the real Finkel was fired by the editors of The New York Times, right after they ran an editor’s note declaring that he had falsified parts of an investigative article. His career seemed over, until Longo (who...
According to Deadline, Hill will play Finkel, "who was a writer at The New York Times Magazine in 2002 when he learned that Christian Longo was captured in Mexico after a long stint on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List for killing his family. The strange part was that he had been living under the identity of Finkel. The very next day, the real Finkel was fired by the editors of The New York Times, right after they ran an editor’s note declaring that he had falsified parts of an investigative article. His career seemed over, until Longo (who...
- 2/27/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Karl Malden, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, died of natural causes today in Los Angeles at the age of 97. His long life and successful career were virtually free of scandal or controversy, and as an actor he was by all accounts a consummate professional. He and his wife, Mona, who survives him, were married for 70 years, which might literally be a show-business record.
Malden was born Mladen George Sekulovich in Chicago, the son of a Serbian father and Czech mother. He changed his name for obvious reasons when he went into acting (after working alongside his father in the steel mills), but often found a way for someone to mention the name "Sekulovich" in his films, as a tribute to his roots. He appeared in 21 Broadway productions between 1937 and 1957, including the premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947. He...
Malden was born Mladen George Sekulovich in Chicago, the son of a Serbian father and Czech mother. He changed his name for obvious reasons when he went into acting (after working alongside his father in the steel mills), but often found a way for someone to mention the name "Sekulovich" in his films, as a tribute to his roots. He appeared in 21 Broadway productions between 1937 and 1957, including the premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947. He...
- 7/2/2009
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
Many of us grew up remembering him as Lieutenant Mike Stone of the San Francisco police department, the tough but kind-hearted detective who mentored the young Steven Keller — played by an equally young Michael Douglas — on the ABC series The Streets of San Francisco between 1972 and 1977. An older generation recall his tremendous performance as Father Barry opposite Marlon Brando in the 1954 classic film, On the Waterfront. For both generations, Karl Malden was a truly compelling character actor. And today we will miss him, for at age 97, Karl Malden has died.
Malden passed away in his sleep at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, according his manager, Bud Ross. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but given Malden's death, it could have been a combination of factors, all most probably brought on naturally as a consequence of age.
Malden appeared alongside Marlon Brando in two of director Elia Kazan...
Malden passed away in his sleep at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, according his manager, Bud Ross. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but given Malden's death, it could have been a combination of factors, all most probably brought on naturally as a consequence of age.
Malden appeared alongside Marlon Brando in two of director Elia Kazan...
- 7/2/2009
- CinemaSpy
Actor Karl Malden died at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles...
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A very sad day as to me, Malden is a movie legend in his own right. I grew up watching him play Father Barry in On The Waterfront, holding his own next to Brando. He'll probably be best remembed as Detective Lt. Mike Stone in the awesome Tv series Streets of San Francisco. Having recently binged through the West Wing, it was great to recognize him as a guest star in one episode. A great actor who'll be sorely missed. Below is a brief biography courtesy of the IMDb if any of you would like to know more.
A former steelworker and teacher, Malden studied acting at the Goodman Theater Dramatic School in Chicago and chose to take his talents to New York, where he became involved with the fabled Group Theater.
He made his stage debut in 1937 and...
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A very sad day as to me, Malden is a movie legend in his own right. I grew up watching him play Father Barry in On The Waterfront, holding his own next to Brando. He'll probably be best remembed as Detective Lt. Mike Stone in the awesome Tv series Streets of San Francisco. Having recently binged through the West Wing, it was great to recognize him as a guest star in one episode. A great actor who'll be sorely missed. Below is a brief biography courtesy of the IMDb if any of you would like to know more.
A former steelworker and teacher, Malden studied acting at the Goodman Theater Dramatic School in Chicago and chose to take his talents to New York, where he became involved with the fabled Group Theater.
He made his stage debut in 1937 and...
- 7/2/2009
- by FanboyCrew
Actor Karl Malden has died of natural causes at the age of 97. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Mona, two daughters, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Malden worked as an actor for both television, theater and film for seven decades, with his last credited performance as a priest in an episode of The West Wing nine years ago. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Performance in the 1952 adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire for director Elia Kazan and later an Emmy for his work in a 1984 made-for-television movie, Fatal Vision. He was also an active supporter of his profession by serving on the boards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Actors Guild and then serving as the Academy's president for the years 1989 to 1991. In 2003 Malden was awarded with the Screen Actors' Guild's Life Achievement Award for his work in entertainment as...
Malden worked as an actor for both television, theater and film for seven decades, with his last credited performance as a priest in an episode of The West Wing nine years ago. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Performance in the 1952 adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire for director Elia Kazan and later an Emmy for his work in a 1984 made-for-television movie, Fatal Vision. He was also an active supporter of his profession by serving on the boards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Actors Guild and then serving as the Academy's president for the years 1989 to 1991. In 2003 Malden was awarded with the Screen Actors' Guild's Life Achievement Award for his work in entertainment as...
- 7/1/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Oscar winner Karl Malden has died at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, three years shy of his 100th birthday. The Streets of San Francisco star was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1912 and raised in Gary, Indiana - coincidentally the birthplace of Michael Jackson, who died last week.
- 7/1/2009
- WENN
Karl Malden, the bulbous-nosed character actor who won a Best Supporting Oscar for his role as Mitch, the guiless suitor of Blanche DuBois in the 1951 classic A Street Car Named Desire - a role he created on Broadway - and lent his particular brand of gravitas to American Express commercials in the 1980s, died Wednesday of natural causes in his Brentwood, Calif., home, his family announced. He was 97. Born Malden Sekulovich to Czech and Siberian immigrants in Chicago, Malden barely spoke English as a child until the family moved to Gary, Indiana. He returned to the Windy City in the...
- 7/1/2009
- by Oliver Jones
- PEOPLE.com
Karl Malden, who vaulted to movie prominence by winning an Academy Award for best supporting actor in "A Streetcar Named Desire" but who is perhaps best known for his lead role on 1970s TV series "The Streets of San Francisco," died Wednesday of natural causes at home in Brentwood. He was 97.
With his craggy face and bulbous nose -- he liked to say he had "an open-hearth face" -- Malden didn't possess matinee-idol looks, but he projected a familiarity and a fire that made him identifiable as an average guy who could rise to the occasion. Audiences respected him for his down-to-earth, lunchpail style.
His collaborations with Marlon Brando and director Elia Kazan, both lifelong friends, resulted in his "Streetcar" Oscar for playing Brando's pal Mitch and a supporting actor nomination three years later for his portrayal of Father Barry, who counsels Brando's character to stand up to the dock racketeers in "On the Waterfront.
With his craggy face and bulbous nose -- he liked to say he had "an open-hearth face" -- Malden didn't possess matinee-idol looks, but he projected a familiarity and a fire that made him identifiable as an average guy who could rise to the occasion. Audiences respected him for his down-to-earth, lunchpail style.
His collaborations with Marlon Brando and director Elia Kazan, both lifelong friends, resulted in his "Streetcar" Oscar for playing Brando's pal Mitch and a supporting actor nomination three years later for his portrayal of Father Barry, who counsels Brando's character to stand up to the dock racketeers in "On the Waterfront.
- 7/1/2009
- by By Duane Byrge and Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Joe McGinniss -- author of "Fatal Vision," "Blind Faith" and other best sellers -- is fed up. In a message posted by his son, Joe McGinniss Jr. on Facebook, the writer asks for ideas for his next book, saying, "The last three books I've written have been about soccer, which nobody in America cares about; horse racing, which nobody in America cares about; and true crime, a genre that expired sometime last century . . . Let me know if you think of something." McGinniss...
- 6/23/2009
- NYPost.com
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