Birthday: October 01, 1920
Specializing in playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, Walter Matthau, with his jowly features, slightly stooped posture, and seedy, rumpled demeanor, looked as if he would be more at home as a laborer or small-time insurance salesman than as a popular movie star equally adept at drama and comedy. An actor who virtually put a trademark on cantankerous behavior, Matthau was a staple ...more- 1981
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com
- First Monday in October
- nom
- 1980
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com
- Hopscotch
- nom
- 1975
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com
- The Sunshine Boys
- win
- 1975
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Actor
- The Sunshine Boys
- nom
- 1974
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com
- The Front Page
- nom
- 2000
- Hanging Up
- Lou Mozell
- 1998
- The Odd Couple II
- Oscar Madison
- 1998
- Love After Death
- Frank Walsh
- 1997
- Out To Sea
- Charlie
- 1996
- I'm Not Rappaport
- Nat Moyer
- 1980
- Little Miss Marker
- Executive Producer
- 1980
- Little Miss Marker
- Producer
- 1959
- Gangster Story
- Director















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