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, 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 ...

Still, the master of rumpled, regular-guy cool from the decade was Walter Matthau, hands down. After playing proto-slob Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, an unhealthy air of dishevelement seemed to ...

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 ...