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KARL MALDEN
Oscar winner Malden – who won Best Supporting Actor in the 1951 classic A Streetcar Named Desire – died of natural causes July 1, at age 91, in his Brentwood, Calif., home. Michael Douglas, who costarred with Malden in 1972's The Streets of San Francisco, told PEOPLE, "[Karl] was my surrogate father. I love this man with all of my heart."
