Walter Matthau
Actor
Indian Fighter, The (1955)
- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau…
- Douglas plays a grizzled scout who must negotiate his way through hostile Indian territory on behalf of a wagon–train. Falling in love with a…
Bigger Than Life (1956)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
- Enormously potent, landmark melodrama is also a career high for James Mason: he plays a suburban family man struck down with a rare heart disease,…
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau…
- Pungent social commentary on American mass culture outlays the rags–to–riches trajectory of a hick nobody (Griffith) whose rapid rise to…
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau…
- Routine western with Murphy as a bank robber mistaken for a famed U.S Marshall and going along with the ruse. Some nice comedic touches and location…
Lonely Are The Brave (1962)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau…
- Kirk Douglas is on top form in this Dalton Trumbo–penned 'psychological' Western, playing an anti–establishment cowboy who purposefully…
Fail Safe (1964)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman
- Henry Fonda plays the American president struggling to avert an imminent nuclear holocaust, due to a computer malfunction. A nailbiting Cold War…
Fortune Cookie, The (1966)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
- Comical cynicism by the experts: the magical trio of Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau (who won an Oscar), and dir. Wilder. When Lemmon suffers a football…
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
- Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon…
- Daffy skit comedy with Morse giving Mathau lessons on how to cheat on his wife in order to preserve their marriage, and these 'lessons' are…
Odd Couple, The (1968)
- Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
- Neil Simon's genius was in full force when he wrote this smash Broadway play – a letter–perfect, belly–aching examination of men in…
Hello Dolly! (1969)
- Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford…
- Barbra Streisand is the attraction of this Gene Kelly musical, as a meddling matchmaker.