Walter Matthau — Actor (41)
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House Calls (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
House Calls
director: Howard Zieff actor: Walter Matthau / Glenda Jackson …
other title: Visite a domicilio / Hausbesuche …
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
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Gangster Story (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gangster Story
director: Walter Matthau actor: Walter Matthau / Carol Grace …
Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that yields him a big bundle. Now he has not only the cops and the FBI after him, but also the local crime boss, who's outraged that an outsider can pull off a heist like that in his territory and not cut him in on it.
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I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I Ought to Be in Pictures
director: Herbert Ross actor: Walter Matthau / Ann-Margret …
other title: Quel giardino di aranci fatti in casa / Eigentlich wollte ich zum Film …
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
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Little Miss Marker (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Little Miss Marker
director: Walter Bernstein actor: Walter Matthau / Julie Andrews …
other title: E io mi gioco la bambina / Ein reizender Fratz …
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
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Plaza Suite (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Plaza Suite
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Walter Matthau / Maureen Stapleton …
other title: Appartamento al Plaza / Hotelgeflüster …
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.
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The Couch Trip (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Couch Trip
director: Michael Ritchie actor: Dan Aykroyd / Walter Matthau …
other title: Lo strizzacervelli / En Skrue løs i Beverly Hills …
The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
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Out to Sea (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Out to Sea
director: Martha Coolidge actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Gli impenitenti / Tango gefällig? …
Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.
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The Sunshine Boys (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Sunshine Boys
director: Herbert Ross actor: Walter Matthau / George Burns …
other title: I ragazzi irresistibili / Sunshine Boys …
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.
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Ride a Crooked Trail (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Ride a Crooked Trail
director: Jesse Hibbs actor: Audie Murphy / Gia Scala …
other title: Il sentiero della rapina / Der weiße Teufel von Arkansas …
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
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King Creole (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
King Creole
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Elvis Presley / Carolyn Jones …
other title: La via del male / Hård Ungdom …
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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Hanging Up (2000) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hanging Up
director: Diane Keaton actor: Meg Ryan / Diane Keaton …
other title: Avviso di chiamata / Linhas Cruzadas …
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
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Mirage (1965) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Mirage
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Gregory Peck / Diane Baker …
other title: Forfulgt / Miragem …
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and that he can't remember the past two years of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye and a reluctant old flame, Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.
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Lonely are the Brave (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Lonely are the Brave
director: David Miller actor: Kirk Douglas / Gena Rowlands …
other title: Solo sotto le stelle / De tapre er ensomme …
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
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The Laughing Policeman (1973) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Laughing Policeman
director: Stuart Rosenberg actor: Walter Matthau / Bruce Dern …
other title: L'ispettore Martin ha teso la trappola / Endestation mord …
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.