Walter Matthau

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-10-01 (80 years old)

Deathday

2000-07-01

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Walter Matthau

Biography

Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor, comedian and film director. He is best known for his film roles in A Face in the Crowd (1957), King Creole (1958) and as a coach of a hapless little league team in the baseball comedy The Bad News Bears (1976). He also starred in 10 films alongside Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968), The Front Page (1974) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). Matthau won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie (1966). Matthau is also known for his performances in Stanley Donen's romance Charade (1...

Acting

1974

The Front Page

as Walter Burns

1964

Fail Safe

as Prof. Groeteschele

1991

JFK

as Senator Long

1966

The Fortune Cookie

as Willie Gingrich

2000

Hanging Up

as Lou Mozell

1963

Charade

as Hamilton Bartholemew

1974

Earthquake

as Drunk

1967

1957

A Face in the Crowd

as Mel Miller

1968

The Odd Couple

as Oscar Madison

1993

Grumpy Old Men

as Max Goldman

1994

I.Q.

as Albert Einstein

1976

The Bad News Bears

as Coach Morris Buttermaker

1986

Pirates

as Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red

1988

The Couch Trip

as Donald Becker

1980

Hopscotch

as Miles Kendig

1993

Dennis the Menace

as George Wilson

1998

The Odd Couple II

as Oscar Madison

1956

Bigger Than Life

as Wally Gibbs

1978

California Suite

as Marvin Michaels

1973

Charley Varrick

as Charley Varrick

1969

Cactus Flower

as Dr. Julian Winston

1983

The Survivors

as Sonny Paluso

1982

1981

Buddy Buddy

as Trabucco

1982

I Ought to Be in Pictures

as Herbert Tucker

1969

Hello, Dolly!

as Horace Vandergelder

1973

The Laughing Policeman

as Sgt. Jake Martin SFPD

1978

House Calls

as Dr. Charley Nichols

1971

Plaza Suite

as Roy Hubley / Jesse Kiplinger / Sam Nash

1971

A New Leaf

as Henry Graham

1964

1962

Lonely are the Brave

as Sheriff Morey Johnson

1996

I'm Not Rappaport

as Nat Moyer

1988

The Little Devil

as Padre Maurizio

1995

Grumpier Old Men

as Max Goldman

1958

1975

The Sunshine Boys

as Willy Clark

1968

Candy

as Gen. R.A. Smight

1955

The Kentuckian

as Stan Bodine

1980

Little Miss Marker

as Sorrowful Jones

1996

The Grass Harp

as Judge Charlie Cool

1997

Out to Sea

as Charlie Gordon

1958

King Creole

as Maxie Fields

1959

Gangster Story

as Jack Martin

1965

Mirage

as Ted Caselle

1958

Voice in the Mirror

as Dr. Karnes

1957

1994

1978

Casey's Shadow

as Lloyd Bourdelle

1971

Kotch

as Joseph P. Kotcher

1955

1960

Strangers When We Meet

as Felix Anders

1962

Who's Got the Action?

as Tony Gagouts

1985

Movers & Shakers

as Joe Mulholland

2002

The Kid Stays in the Picture

as Self (archive footage)

1972

Pete 'n' Tillie

as Pete Seltzer

1963

Island of Love

as Tony Dallas

2000

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

as Self (archive footage)

2020

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

as Self (archive footage)

1990

The Incident

as Harmon Cobb

1958

Onionhead

as 'Red' Wildoe

1976

The Gentleman Tramp

as Self / Narrator

1978

The Stingiest Man in Town

as Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

1991

Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love

as Clifford Pepperman

1964

Goodbye Charlie

as Leo Sartori

1978

Funny Business

as Self - Host

1972

Awake and Sing!

as Moe Axelrod

1978

Actor

as Boris Thomashevsky

1992

1998

The Marriage Fool

as Frank Walsh

1954

Atomic Attack

as Dr. Spinelli

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1962

1968

Production

1959

Gangster Story

as Director

1980

Little Miss Marker

as Executive Producer

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