Matthau did make his fictitious surname "official" in at least one sense, however — he was credited for his role as a 'Drunk' in the 1974 disaster flick Earthquake as 'Walter Matuschanskayasky ...

Carol Matthau, a former actress and writer who married famously three times -- twice to author and playwright William Saroyan and once to actor Walter Matthau -- died Sunday of a brain aneurysm at ...

A vision of Matthau as a W.C. Fields type, immune to the charms of kids and pets, is a hard one to shake. It is inaccurate. “Walter was not a curmudgeon,” Lemmon says.

Walter Matthau. 10.1.1920--7.1.2000. By. Ty Burr. Ty Burr. Ty Burr is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2002. EW's editorial guidelines. Published on January 5, 2001 05 ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 -- The stars came out today to salute one of their fallen, the actor Walter Matthau, at a memorial service where the rabbi got the biggest laugh, the deceased's Super Bowl ...

Walter Matthau, who died last weekend, had a face that was born to be middle- aged. Though he worked as a screen actor from age 34 -- his first role was in the Burt Lancaster vehicle "The ...