Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau plays Lou Mozell, whose wild living, constant phoning and other assorted antics drive his daughters crazy in the Columbia Pictures presentation, Hanging Up - 2/2000

Biography

Born 10/01/1920

Once described by a British critic as looking like "a bloodhound with a head cold", the magnificently rumpled Walter Matthau parlayed his marvelous character face, drooping posture, ungainly walk and growling voice into a prolific screen career, first as a villain, later as a comedic and sometimes...
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Awards

  • In 1997, received American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement-Male
  • In 1995, received ShoWest Lifetime Achievement Award
  • In 1992, received Screen Actors Guild Foundation Jack Oakie Award for Comedy in Motion Pictures

Highlights

  • In 2000, Cast as the ailing father in Diane Keaton's "Hanging Up", scripted by Delia and Nora Ephron; when a case of pneumonia forced him to leave the production early, son Charles stepped in and played his father's character in a few flashback scenes
  • In 1998, Reprised role of Oscar to Lemmon's Felix in the ill-advised "The Odd Couple II", scripted by Simon
  • In 1998, Starred opposite Burnett in "The Marriage Fool" (CBS), directed by son Charles

Family & Companions

  • Grace Geraldine Johnson: wife (divorced; has two children with Matthau)
  • Carol Marcus: wife (met while both were acting on Broadway in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" (1955); married on August 17, 1959; previously married to William Saroyan, with whom she had two children; wrote memoir, "Among the Porcupines" (1992); mother of Matthau's son Charles)
  • mother: Jewish

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