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Walter Matthau

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 (1963), Gene Kelly's musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), Elaine May's screwball comedy A New Leaf (1971) and Herbert Ross' ensemble comedy California Suite (1978). He also starred in Plaza Suite, Kotch (both 1971), Charley Varrick (1973), The Sunshine Boys (1975), and Hopscotch (1980).On Broadway, Matthau originated the role of Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple by playwright Neil Simon, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1965, his second after A Shot in the Dark in 1962. Matthau also received two British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 1963, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in The DuPont Show of the Week. In 1982, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Matthau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Walter Matthau Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	The Odd Couple II	326
2.	JFK	37
3.	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	15
4.	Grumpy Old Men	12
5.	Dennis the Menace	9
6.	Grumpier Old Men	4
7.	Hanging Up	1
8.	Cactus Flower	0
9.	Charade	0
10.	Earthquake	0
11.	Out to Sea	0

The Odd Couple II

Movie | United States | 04/09/1998 | Adventure

30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.

6.4/10

667

JFK

Movie | United States | 12/20/1991 | Drama | Conspiracy

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

8.0/10

84%

219

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Movie | United States | 10/02/1974 | Action | Thrillers

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if its paid, how could they get away?

7.7/10

100%

Grumpy Old Men

Movie | United States | 12/25/1993 | Comedy | Situation

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks. Will this love triangle destroy the two old grumps? Or will the geriatric odd couple overcome their differences and rediscover their friendship?

6.9/10

63%

108

Dennis the Menace

Movie | United States | 06/23/1993 | Comedy | Family

Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.

5.7/10

27%

787

Grumpier Old Men

Movie | United States | 12/22/1995 | Comedy | Odd Couple

A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry shell scare the fish away. But shes less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.

6.6/10

17%

Hanging Up

Movie | Germany | 02/16/2000 | Comedy | Rom Com

A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.

4.9/10

12%

Cactus Flower

Movie | United States | 12/16/1969 | Romance

Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.

7.2/10

85%

Charade

Movie | United States | 12/05/1963 | Thriller | Mystery

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

8.0/10

92%

Earthquake

Movie | United States | 11/15/1974 | Thriller | Disaster

Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.

5.9/10

45%

Out to Sea

Movie | United States | 07/02/1997 | Comedy | Odd Couple

Care-free Charlie (Walter Matthau) cons his widower brother-in-law Herb (Jack Lemmon) into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.

6.1/10

36%

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