Remembering Walter Matthau ... Here’s how big a star Matthau was in 1969: He could play a womanizing dentist fought over by Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn — and audiences thought it the most ...

* Walter Matthau gained fame and fortune playing curmudgeons and grumpy old men (obituary, July 2), but off screen he was nothing like that, as literally thousands of his neighbors in Pacific ...

Walter Matthau, the brash, sardonic comic actor who hit his stride in mid-life via tour de force performances in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" and Billy Wilder's "The Fortune Cookie," died Saturday.

Jack Lemmon’s nearly life-long partnership with the late Walter Matthau was so distinctive that their nine buddy movies together stand out as a separate body of work. These delightful sweet-a… ...

Walter Matthau, the lovably grumpy comic actor with the hangdog face and gruff voice, died Saturday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 79. Matthau was brought into the hospital ...

Oscar-winning actor Walter Matthau, who slouched and grouched his way to fame playing lovable curmudgeons in films from “The Odd Couple” to “Grumpy Old Men,” died of a heart attack ...

Walter Matthau, 79, a comic actor who specialized in outrageous, irascible and frequently irresistible characters in films such as "The Fortune Cookie," which won him an Oscar, and "The Odd Couple ...

10.1.1920--7.1.2000. — ”The second and solidest act of the play is commandeered by Walter Matthau in a brilliant portrayal of a patrician whose blood has been blue for so long that it has curdled.