This actor had a distinguished career – Oscar winner, commercial pitchman and a popular tv series in the 1970’s where he was paired with another Oscar winner who is the son of a permanent A list actor. This actor never forgot his blue collar upbringing in a Midwestern industrial city and did many charitable endeavors aimed at making life better in his hometown. Chief among them is the scholarship fund for disadvantaged kids to go to college which still exists to this day. He did not seek publicity at all for these acts of charity although he does mention them briefly in his autobiography.
Karl Malden?
ReplyDeleteYep. Karl Malden Theater Scholarship.
Delete+1 great guess.
ReplyDeleteGreat guy
I loved him in The Streets of San Francisco
ReplyDeleteWell, yes, many men have been "loved" in the streets of San Francisco, but they should probably use the privacy of their own homes or at least an accommodating bathhouse.
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ReplyDeleteKarl Malden! Got that one in the first sentence. Quality guy. Good to know he was the real deal. Unlike the costar that was mentioned.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up I knew him from the American Express commercials but eventually discovered his movies.
ReplyDeletelol Nuno
ReplyDeleteI always mixed him up with Jack Klugman.
ReplyDeleteIt does my heart good to,hear that Malden was a decent person.
ReplyDeleteI can’t believe no one has mentioned Karl’s costar was Michael Douglas. Mikey appears in the guesses so often.
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