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Matthau, Walter
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Matthau, Walter (1920–2000)

US actor. He was impressive in both comedy and dramatic roles. He gained film stardom after his stage success in The Odd Couple (1965), the first of several collaborations with Neil Simon, and won an Academy Award for The Fortune Cookie (1966). In Grumpy Old Men (1993) and Grumpy Old Men II (1995), he was reunited with his frequent 1960s co-star Jack Lemmon.

Matthau's many films include Charade (1963), the film version of The Odd Couple (1968), Kotch (1971), Charley Varrick (1973), and The Sunshine Boys (1975).
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Anything featuring Walter Matthau is bound to have its moments, and there are some interesting shots of Ruidoso Downs racetrack, in New Mexico, but you wonder what made Matthau accept the part.
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Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York, Matthau had a few walk-on parts in Yiddish theatre, but turned to professional acting only after the Second World War, during which he was an aircrew sergeant with the same bomber group station in Britain of which James Stewart was a colonel.
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