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Walter Matthau. m. Walter Matthau ( / ˈmæθaʊ /; [1] born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie (1966). He is best known for his film roles in A Face in the Crowd (1957 ...
Walter Matthau was best known for starring in many films which included Charade (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Dennis the Menace (1993). He often worked with Jack Lemmon and the two were Hollywood's craziest stars. He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York on October 1, 1920.
Walter Matthau. Actor: The Odd Couple. Walter Matthau was best known for starring in many films which included Charade (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Dennis the Menace (1993). He often worked with Jack Lemmon and the two were Hollywood's craziest stars. He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York on October 1, 1920. His mother was an immigrant from ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Walter Matthau (born October 1, 1920, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 1, 2000, Santa Monica, California) was an American actor who was known for his rumpled face, nasal bray, and razor-sharp comic timing. Born into a poor family of Jewish Russian immigrants, he was compelled to work at a very early age. As a young teen, he was employed at ...
Jul 1, 2000 · Walter Matthau Obituary We remember veteran actor Walter Matthau, who died early Saturday morning of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California at age 79. He starred in dozens of films including ...
Walter Matthau, who claimed that "Foghorn" was his middle name, is dead at 79. The beloved actor, whose face was mapped with laugh lines, died of a heart attack early Saturday morning. He was brought into a Santa Monica hospital in cardiac arrest, and pronounced dead at 1:41 a.m. PDT.
Jul 1, 2000 · 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).
Jul 1, 2016 · Walter Matthau, the lovably grumpy comic actor with the hangdog face and gruff voice, died Saturday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 79.
Jul 5, 2000 · Walter Matthau, the brash, sardonic comic actor who hit his stride in mid-life via tour de force performances in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" and Billy Wilder's "The Fortune Cookie," died Saturday.
Walter Matthau was born in New York City on Oct. 1, 1920, to Milton Matuschanskayasky and the former Rose Berolsky, impoverished Jewish immigrants. His father, from Russia, was an electrician turned process server who abandoned the family when Walter was 3 years old and who died 12 years later.
