Academy Award-winning actor, Karl Malden, died Wednesday. He was 97.

Malden family says the beloved actor died of natural causes at his Brentwood home. He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences from 1989-92.

“Karl lived a rich, full life,” Academy president Sid Ganis said. “He has the greatest and most loving family; a career that has spanned the spectrum of the arts from theater to film and television, to some very famous commercial work.”

Malden said he got his famously large nose when he broke it a couple of times playing basketball or football, and joked that he was “the only actor in Hollywood whose nose qualifies him for handicapped parking.” He liked to say he had “an open-hearth face.”

Malden won a supporting actor Oscar in 1951 for his role as one of Blanche DuBois’ suitors, Mitch in “A Streetcar Named Desire” — a role he also played on Broadway.