List of Funny Words Walter Matthau
| Walter Matthau | |
|---|---|
 Matthau in 1952 | |
| Born | Walter John Matthow (1920-x-01)October one, 1920 Lower East Side, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 1, 2000(2000-07-01) (aged 79) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Other names | Walter Matuschanskayasky |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1944–2000 |
| Notable work |
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| Spouse(southward) | Grace Geraldine Johnson (chiliad. 1948; div. 1958) Carol Marcus (chiliad. 1959) |
| Children | three, including Charles Matthau |
| Awards | University Award, BAFTA Award, Tony Award, Golden Earth Laurels |
| Armed forces career | |
| Service/ |  United States Regular army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1942–1945 |
| Rank |  Staff Sergeant |
| Unit | Eighth Air Force 453rd Bombardment Grouping |
| Battles/wars | World War Ii
|
| Awards |  Air Medal Army Good Bear Medal American Entrada Medal European–African–Middle Eastern Entrada Medal Earth War II Victory Medal |
Walter Matthau (;[1] born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July i, 2000) was an American actor.
He is best known for his film roles in A Face up in the Crowd (1957), King Creole (1958) and as a charabanc of a hapless picayune league team in the baseball comedy The Bad News Bears (1976). He also starred in 10 films alongside Jack Lemmon, including The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Odd Couple (1968), The Forepart Page (1974), Buddy Buddy (1981), JFK (1991), Grumpy Old Men (1993), Grumpier Old Men (1995), The Grass Harp (1995), Out to Sea (1997), and The Odd Couple 2 (1998). Matthau won the University Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Billy Wilder motion picture The Fortune Cookie (1966). Matthau is likewise known for his performances in Stanley Donen'due south romance Charade (1963), Gene Kelly's musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), Elaine May'southward screwball comedy A New Foliage (1971) and Herbert Ross' ensemble comedy California Suite (1978). He also starred in Plaza Suite, Kotch (both 1971), Charley Varrick (1973), The Sunshine Boys (1975), and Hopscotch (1980).
On Broadway, Matthau originated the part of Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple play by playwright Neil Simon for which he received a Tony Honour for Best Player in a Play in 1965, his 2d after A Shot in the Dark in 1962. Matthau also received two British Academy Picture show Awards and a Golden Earth Accolade. In 1963 he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in The DuPont Show of the Week. In 1982, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Early life [edit]
Matthau was built-in Walter John Matthow[2] [three] on Oct one, 1920, in New York Metropolis's Lower East Side.
His mother, Rose (née Barolsky or Berolsky), was a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant who worked in a garment sweatshop, and his male parent, Milton Matthow, was a Ukrainian-Jewish peddler and electrician, from Kiev, Ukraine.[4] [5]
As office of a lifelong dear of applied jokes, Matthau created the rumors that his middle proper name was Foghorn and his last proper name was originally Matuschanskayasky (nether which he is credited for a cameo part in the film Convulsion).[half-dozen]
As a young boy, Matthau attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway campsite, Serenity Camp, where he first began acting in the shows the camp would phase on Sabbatum nights. He also attended Surprise Lake Military camp. His loftier school was Seward Park High School.[7] He worked for a brusk time every bit a concession stand cashier in the Yiddish Theatre District.[8]
World War II [edit]
During World War Two, Matthau saw agile service as a radioman-gunner in the U.Southward. Ground forces Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in the Great britain, crewing a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber. He was with the same 453rd Battery Grouping equally James Stewart. While based in England at RAF Former Buckenham in Norfolk, he flew missions across to continental Europe during the Battle of the Bulge. He ended the war with the rank of Staff Sergeant, and returned dwelling to America for demobilization at the war's end intent on pursuing a career as an actor.[9]
Acting career [edit]
Early work [edit]
Matthau was trained in interim at the Dramatic Workshop of The New Schoolhouse with German manager Erwin Piscator. He often joked that his best early review came in a play where he posed as a derelict. I reviewer said, "The others just looked like actors in make-up, Walter Matthau really looks like a skid row bum!" Matthau was a respected stage actor for years in such fare equally Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and A Shot in the Dark, for his performance in the latter winning the 1962 Tony Accolade for Best Featured Actor in a Play.[10]
Matthau appeared in the pilot of Mister Peepers (1952) with Wally Cox. For reasons unknown he used the name Leonard Elliot. His role was of the gym teacher Mr. Wall. He made his picture debut as a whip-wielding bad guy in The Kentuckian (1955) opposite Burt Lancaster. He played a villain in King Creole (1958), in which he gets browbeaten up past Elvis Presley. Around the same time, he made Ride a Crooked Trail with Audie Murphy, and Onionhead (both 1958) starring Andy Griffith; the latter was a flop. Matthau had a role reverse Griffith in the well received drama A Face in the Crowd (1957), directed past Elia Kazan and with James Mason in Bigger Than Life (1956) directed by Nicholas Ray. Matthau himself directed a low-budget moving-picture show chosen The Gangster Story (1960) and was a sympathetic sheriff in Lonely Are the Dauntless (1962), which starred Kirk Douglas. He appeared reverse Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963).
Appearances on television receiver were common likewise, including ii on Naked City, iv installments of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as well as an episode of The Eleventh Hr ("A Tumble from a Tall White House", 1963). He appeared viii times betwixt 1962 and 1964 on The DuPont Show of the Week and as Franklin Gaer in an episode of Dr. Kildare ("Man Is a Rock", 1964). Additionally he featured in the syndicated crime drama Tallahassee 7000, every bit a Florida-based state police force investigator (1961–62).
1960s [edit]
Comedies were rare in Matthau's work at that time. He was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as Neglect Safe (1964), in which he portrayed Pentagon adviser Dr. Groeteschele, who urges an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to an accidental manual of an assault signal to U.S. Air Force bombers. Neil Simon cast him in the play The Odd Couple in 1965, with Matthau playing slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison, opposite Art Carney as Felix Ungar.[10] Matthau later reprised the role in the film version, with Jack Lemmon equally Felix Ungar. He played detective Ted Casselle in the Hitchcockian thriller Mirage (1965), directed by Edward Dmytryk.
He achieved neat success in the comedy film, The Fortune Cookie (1966), every bit a shyster lawyer, William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich, starring reverse Lemmon; the offset of many collaborations with Baton Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for All-time Supporting Thespian.[ citation needed ] Filming had to be placed on a five-month hiatus after Matthau had a serious heart attack. He gave upwardly his three pack a day smoking habit every bit a result.[11] Matthau appeared during the Oscar telecast soon after having been injured in a bike accident; nevertheless, he scolded actors who had not attended the ceremony, especially the other major award winners that night: Paul Scofield, Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis.[12]
1970s [edit]
Oscar nominations would come up Matthau's way again for Kotch (1971), directed past Lemmon, and The Sunshine Boys (1975), another adaptation of a Neil Simon stage play, this time about a pair of former vaudeville stars. For the latter role he won a Gilt Earth award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.[ citation needed ]
Broadway hits turned into films continued to cast Matthau in lead roles in How-do-you-do, Dolly! and Cactus Flower (both 1969); for the latter pic, Goldie Hawn received an Oscar for Best Supporting Extra. Matthau played 3 roles in the motion-picture show version of Simon's Plaza Suite (1971) and was in the cast of its followup California Suite (1978).
Matthau starred in three criminal offense dramas in the mid-1970s, every bit a detective investigating a mass murder on a double-decker in The Laughing Policeman (1973), as a banking company robber on the run from the Mafia and the law in Charley Varrick (besides 1973) and equally a New York transit official in the action-adventure The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). A change of step about misfits on a Little League baseball team turned out to be a solid hit when Matthau starred as coach Morris Buttermaker in the comedy The Bad News Bears (1976).
1980s [edit]
Matthau looked to produce some films with Universal Pictures, with his son Charlie likewise becoming involved in his production company, Walcar Productions, but the but film he produced was the 3rd remake of Lilliputian Miss Marker (1980).[13] He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or One-act for his portrayal of one-time CIA field operative Miles Kendig in the elaborate spy one-act Hopscotch (1980), co-starring with Glenda Jackson. The original script, a dark piece of work based on the novel of the same name, was rewritten and transformed into a comedy in order to play to Matthau's specific talents. The rewrite was a status of his participation.[14] Matthau participated in the script revisions, and the film's managing director, Ronald Neame, observed that Matthau's contributions entitled him to screen credit, but that was never pursued.[fifteen] Matthau wrote the scene in which Kendig and Isobel—manifestly strangers—meet in a Salzburg eating house and strike up a conversation near vino that ends in a passionate kiss. He also wrote the last scene of the pic, where Kendig, presumed to be expressionless, disguises himself as a Sikh in order to enter a bookshop. He likewise helped in choosing advisable compositions by Mozart that made up much of the score.[16] [fifteen] TCM'south Susan Doll observes that "Hopscotch could be considered the end of a long career peak or the beginning of (Matthau'due south) slide downhill, depending on the viewpoint," as character parts and supporting parts became the only matter available to an actor his age.[fourteen]
The next yr, he was nominated once again for the Gold Globe Award for Best Actor—Motion Motion picture Musical or One-act for his portrayal of the fictional Associate Justice Daniel Snow in First Monday in October (1981). The flick was about the (fictional) first appointment of a adult female (played past Jill Clayburgh) to the Supreme Courtroom of the United States. Information technology was scheduled for release in 1982, merely when President Ronald Reagan named Sandra Twenty-four hours O'Connor in July 1981, the release date was moved up to August 1981.[17] New York Times critic Janet Maslin disliked the motion picture but praised Matthau's functioning.[18] Matthau portrayed Herbert Tucker in I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982), with Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff. Matthau took the leading office of Helm Thomas Bartholomew Cherry in Roman Polanski'due south swashbuckler Pirates (1986).
During the 1980s and 1990s Matthau served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute.[19] [20]
1990s [edit]
Matthau narrated the Doctor Seuss Video Classics: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1992) and played the role of Mr. Wilson in the film Dennis the Menace (1993). In a modify of pace, Matthau played Albert Einstein in the movie I.Q. (1994), starring Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan.
His partnership with Jack Lemmon became one of the nigh enduring collaborations in Hollywood. They became lifelong friends later making The Fortune Cookie and would make a total of 10 movies together—11 counting Kotch, in which Lemmon has a cameo as a sleeping bus rider. Autonomously from their many comedies, the two appeared (although they did not share any scenes) in the Oliver Stone drama, JFK (1991). Matthau and Lemmon reunited for the comedy Grumpy Quondam Men (1993), co-starring Ann-Margret, and its sequel, Grumpier Quondam Men (1995), also co-starring Sophia Loren. This led to farther pairings late in their careers, Out to Sea (1997) and a Simon-scripted sequel to their much earlier success, The Odd Couple II (1998).
Hanging Up (2000), directed past Diane Keaton, was Matthau's concluding appearance onscreen.[21]
Personal life [edit]
Marriages [edit]
Matthau was married twice: commencement to Grace Geraldine Johnson from 1948 to 1958, and so to Carol Marcus from 1959 until his decease in 2000. He had two children, Jenny and David, by his get-go wife, and a son, Charlie Matthau, with his second wife. Matthau also helped heighten his stepchildren, Aram Saroyan and Lucy Saroyan.[ citation needed ]
Health problems [edit]
A heavy smoker, Matthau had a heart assail in 1966 while filming The Fortune Cookie, the first of at least iii in his lifetime.[22]
In 1976, 10 years afterwards his first heart assault, he underwent center bypass surgery. After working in Minnesota for Grumpy Old Men (1993), he was hospitalized for double pneumonia. In December 1995, he had a colon tumor removed, plainly successfully, equally there was no mention of cancer in his decease certificate. He was hospitalized in May 1999 for more than than two months, owing again to pneumonia.[eleven]
His death certificate lists the causes of decease every bit "cardiac arrest" and "atherosclerotic heart disease" with "end phase renal disease" and "atrial fibrillation" as significant contributing factors. In that location is no mention of cancer.[23]
Death [edit]
Matthau had atherosclerotic heart disease during the terminal years of his life. On the late evening of June 30, 2000, he had a heart assail at his home and was taken by ambulance to the St. John's Health Middle in Santa Monica where he died a few hours later at 1:42 a.m. on July 1, 2000, at age 79.[24] He was cached in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Matthau's wife Carol Marcus died in 2003, and her body was interred in the same grave as her hubby.[ citation needed ]
Jack Lemmon forth with others of Matthau'south friends and relations appeared on Larry Male monarch Live in an hr of tribute and remembrance; many of those aforementioned people appeared on the prove again in 2001, paying tribute to Lemmon himself who died less than one twelvemonth afterward (and was also buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park).[ citation needed ]
Filmography [edit]
Awards and nominations [edit]
| Year | Laurels | Category | Project | Event | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Fortune Cookie | Won | |
| 1971 | Best Thespian | Kotch | Nominated | ||
| 1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Nominated | |||
| 1959 | Tony Awards | Best Featured Histrion in a Play | Once more, with Feeling! | Nominated | |
| 1962 | A Shot in the Nighttime | Won | |||
| 1965 | Best Actor in a Play | The Odd Couple | Won | ||
| 1969 | British Academy Film Award | All-time Film Thespian in a Leading Role | The Underground Life of an American Wife | Nominated | [ citation needed ] |
| Hello, Dolly! | Nominated | ||||
| 1973 | Pete 'northward' Tillie | Won | |||
| Charley Varrick | |||||
| 1976 | The Sunshine Boys | Nominated | |||
| The Bad News Bears | Nominated | ||||
| 1966 | Aureate Globe Awards | Best Player in a Motility Moving picture – Musical or Comedy | The Fortune Cookie | Nominated | [25] |
| 1968 | The Odd Couple | Nominated | |||
| 1971 | Kotch | Nominated | |||
| 1972 | Pete 'n' Tillie | Nominated | |||
| 1974 | The Front Page | Nominated | |||
| 1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Won | |||
| 1980 | Hopscotch | Nominated | |||
| 1981 | First Monday in October | Nominated | |||
| 1966 | Kansas Urban center Film Critics Circle Honour | Best Supporting Actor | The Fortune Cookie | Won | [ citation needed ] |
| 1971 | Best Histrion | Kotch | Won | ||
| 1966 | Laurel Awards | Summit Male Supporting Performance | The Fortune Cookie | Won | |
| 1974 | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Actor | The Front Folio | Won |
Citations [edit]
- ^ Matthau, Walter - Oxford Dictionaries
- ^ Edelman, Rob; Audrey E. Kupferberg (2002). Matthau: a life. Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade Publishing. p. four. ISBN0-87833-274-X.
- ^ Wright, Stuart J. (2004). An emotional gauntlet: from life in peacetime America to the war in European skies. Terrace Books. p. 179. ISBN0-299-20520-7.
- ^ Stone, Judy (September 8, 1968). "Matthau – A Sex Symbol Or a Jewish Mother?". The New York Times . Retrieved Feb three, 2014. subscription required
- ^ Gussow, Mel (July 2, 2000). "Walter Matthau, 79, Rumpled Star and Comic Icon, Dies". The New York Times . Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ^ "Walter Matthau". Snopes.com. Oct 19, 2005. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ^ "Famous Alumni". Seward Park High School Alumni Association. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- ^ Cofone, Annie (June viii, 2012). "Strolling Dorsum Into the Golden Age of Yiddish Theater". The Local – East Hamlet . Retrieved February iii, 2014.
- ^ "Walter Matthau". The Telegraph. July 3, 2000. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
- ^ a b Walter Matthau at the Cyberspace Broadway Database
- ^ a b Obituary, guardian.com; accessed Baronial twenty, 2015.
- ^ The Fortune Cookie Lemmon & Matthau Behind-the-Scenes Archived November 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Hollywood Legacy
- ^ "Matthau & Son Tied To Universal". Variety. April 12, 1978. p. iv.
- ^ a b "Hopscotch (1980) - Articles - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ a b "Hopscotch". catalog.afi.com . Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ "Hopscotch (1980) - Manufactures - TCM.com". Turner Archetype Movies . Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ "First Mon in Oct (picture show)", Wikipedia, June 6, 2020, retrieved June 21, 2020
- ^ Maslin, Janet (August 21, 1981). "Kickoff Monday in Oct". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ National Educatee Film Institute/L.A: The Sixteenth Annual Los Angeles Educatee Motion picture Festival. The Directors Guild Theatre. June ten, 1994. pp. 10–11.
- ^ Los Angeles Pupil Film Constitute: 13th Annual Educatee Film Festival. The Directors Order Theatre. June vii, 1991. p. 3.
- ^ "Hanging upwardly". IMDb.
- ^ "Walter Matthau". biography.yourdictionary.com . Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- ^ "Walter Matthau Death Document". YouTube. Archived from the original on Oct xxx, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
- ^ "Actor Walter Matthau dies". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ^ "Walter Matthau". goldenglobes.com . Retrieved March 8, 2021.
References [edit]
- Profile at Hollywood Memoir, accessed April viii, 2015.
Farther reading [edit]
- Mel Gussow (July 2, 2000). "Walter Matthau, 79, Rumpled Star and Comic Icon, Dies". The New York Times . Retrieved February 4, 2021.
External links [edit]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Matthau
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