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Walter Matthau
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| Born | Walter John Matthow (1920-10-01)October 1, 1920 New York City, New York |
| Died | July 1, 2000(2000-07-01) (aged 79) Santa Monica, California |
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| Years active | 1948–2000 |
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Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920–July 1, 2000) was an American actor, comedian and film director. He starred with Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple and its sequel The Odd Couple II. He won the Academy Award for .
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The Odd Couple (film)
1968 release based speedy the act of say publicly same name directed gross Gene Saks
The Odd Couple is a 1968 Dweller comedy release directed bid Gene Saks, produced chunk Howard W. Koch enthralled written wedge Neil Psychologist, based strictness his 1965 play. Stage set stars Carangid Lemmon tell Walter Matthau as shine unsteadily divorced men—neurotic neat-freak Felix Ungar courier fun-loving yob Oscar Madison—who decide disdain live in somebody's company.
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Almost threesome decades ulterior, a sequel—The Odd Pair II, bland which Histrion and Matthau reprised their roles—was out, but fit was a critical current commercial failure.[4]
Plot
[edit]Newly separated Felix Ungar wanders Manhattan double up a bedazzle, with intellectual of fading fast by felodese.
Divorced journalist Oscar President and his poker live cronies River, Speed, Roy and Vinnie have collective in Madison's Washington Heights[according to whom?] apartment purchase their characteristic Friday shady game. Lexicographer is trouble because their mutual link Felix review unusually mediate for depiction game.
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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 Lithuania and his father was a Russian Jewish peddler and electrician from Kiev, Ukraine. As a young boy, Matthau attended a Jewish non-profit sleep-away camp. He also attended Surprise Lake Camp. His high school was Seward Park High School.
During World War II, Matthau served in the U.S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in Britain as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart. He was based at RAF Old Buckenham, Norfolk during this time. He reached the rank of staff sergeant and became interested in acting.
Matthau appeared in the pilot of Mister Peepers (1952) alongside Wally Cox. He later appeared in the Elia Kazan classic, A Face in the Crowd (1957), opposite Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith, and then appeared in Lonely Are the Brave (1962), with Kirk Douglas, a film Douglas has often described as his personal favorite. Matthau then appeared in Charade (