Walter Matthau — Actor (25)
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Charade (1963) [Movie] DND WikiData IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
Charade
director: Stanley Donen actor: Cary Grant / Audrey Hepburn …
other title: Sciarada / Tre mand frem for en enke …
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
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The Front Page (1974) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Front Page
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Prima pagina / Ryd Forsiden …
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Walter Matthau / Robert Shaw …
other title: Il colpo della metropolitana / Togkapring …
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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Grumpy Old Men (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Grumpy Old Men
director: Donald Petrie actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Due irresistibili brontoloni / Gnavne gamle mænd …
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.
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A New Leaf (1971) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
A New Leaf
director: Elaine May actor: Walter Matthau / Elaine May …
other title: È ricca, la sposo e l'ammazzo / I lyst og nød …
After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
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A Face in the Crowd (1957) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
A Face in the Crowd
director: Elia Kazan actor: Andy Griffith / Patricia Neal …
other title: Un volto nella folla / Um Rosto na Multidão …
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
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Hello, Dolly! (1969) [Movie] TMDB
Hello, Dolly!
director: Gene Kelly actor: Barbra Streisand / Walter Matthau …
other title: Alô, Dolly! / Hello, Dolly !
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
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Bigger Than Life (1956) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
Bigger Than Life
director: Nicholas Ray actor: James Mason / Barbara Rush …
other title: Dietro lo specchio / Giften i blodet …
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957) [Movie] TMDB
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
director: Arnold Laven actor: Richard Egan / Jan Sterling …
other title: I bassifondi del porto / Assassinato na Décima Avenida …
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
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Dennis the Menace (1993) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Dennis the Menace
director: Nick Castle actor: Walter Matthau / Mason Gamble …
other title: Dennis la minaccia / Jern-Henrik …
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
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Candy (1968) [Movie] TMDB
Candy
director: Christian Marquand actor: Ewa Aulin / Charles Aznavour …
other title: Candy e il suo pazzo mondo
A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
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The Odd Couple (1968) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
The Odd Couple
director: Gene Saks actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: La strana coppia / Hvem støver af? …
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
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The Odd Couple (1968) [Movie]
The Odd Couple
director: Gene Saks actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: La strana coppia / Hvem støver af? …
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
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The Fortune Cookie (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Fortune Cookie
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Non per soldi... ma per denaro / Knald eller fald …
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
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Charley Varrick (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Charley Varrick
director: Don Siegel actor: Walter Matthau / Joe Don Baker …
other title: Chi ucciderà Charley Varrick? / Menneskejagt på liv og død …
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
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Grumpier Old Men (1995) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Grumpier Old Men
director: Howard Deutch actor: Walter Matthau / Jack Lemmon …
other title: That's Amore - Due improbabili seduttori / Gnavne gamle mænd 2 …
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.
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Hopscotch (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hopscotch
director: Ronald Neame actor: Walter Matthau / Glenda Jackson …
other title: Due sotto il divano / Den vilde flugt …
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
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