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Malden's friendship with Michael Douglas's family began in the early 1930s, when he attended New York Summer Stock, with a then-unfamiliar teen star Kirk Douglas, who would later become Michael's father. Kirk encouraged Karl to have Michael co-star with him on The Streets of San Francisco, early in 1972, and they developed a wonderful chemistry on the show. In 2004, more than 25 years after Streets had been cancelled, Michael Douglas presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Malden at the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Malden's six decades in the movies. Douglas ... praised his relationship with Malden, citing him as one of his all-time favorite actors. Late in 2005, Douglas did not attend the ceremony renaming the Los Angeles Barrington Station post office for Malden because of scheduling conflicts. Douglas also did not appear in the movie Back to The Streets of San Francisco with Malden in 1992 because he was starring in Basic Instinct, which was the #1 movie that year.
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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences will honor veteran actor Karl Malden tonight at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Film clips from the former academy president's career, as well as conversations with friends and co-stars (including Hume Cronyn, Kim Hunter, Eli Wallach and Richard Widmark), will form the backbone of the evening. Among Malden's best-known roles was that of a priest counseling Marlon Brando in the 1950s film "On the Waterfront." In the 1970s, he starred opposite Michael Douglas in the cop drama "The Streets of San Francisco."
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In 1957, he directed the Korean War melodrama Time Limit, the only instance in which the forceful and opinionated Malden was officially credited as director. Malden was best known to TV fans of the 1970s as Lieutenant Mike Stone, the no-nonsense protagonist of the longrunning cop series The Streets of San Francisco. Still wearing his familiar Streets hat and overcoat, Malden supplemented his income with a series of ads for American Express. His commercial catchphrases "What will you do?" and "Don't leave home without it!" soon entered the lexicon of TV trivia -- and provided endless fodder for such comedians as Johnny Carson.
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In a distinguished career as a supporting actor, Malden won an Academy Award for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and was nominated for another, for On the Waterfront (1954). He earned an Emmy for his performance in the TV movie Fatal Vision (1984) and starred in the TV series Streets of San Francisco (1972–77). Malden has ... served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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After years of starring in film and theater, producer Quinn Martin approached Malden in 1972 about starring as Lt. Mike Stone in The Streets of San Francisco. Although the concept originated as a made-for-television movie, ABC quickly signed on to carry it as television series.
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