Walter Matthau

Walter John Matthau ( Matthow; ;Matthau, Walter - Oxford Dictionaries 1 Oktober 1920 – 1 Juli 2000) adalah seorang aktor layar dan panggung Amerika, dikenal karena "wajahnya yang murung" dan karena memainkan karakter yang lelah dunia. Dia membintangi 10 film bersama teman aslinya Jack Lemmon, termasuk The Odd Couple (1968) dan Grumpy Old Men (1993). The New York Times menyebutnya "salah satu pasangan tersukses di Hollywood". Di antara penghargaan lainnya, ia adalah seorang pemenang Academy Award, dua kali BAFTA Award, dan dua kali Tony Award.

Di teater Broadway, Matthau memerankan karakter Oscar Madison di The Odd Couple oleh penulis drama Neil Simon, yang membuatnya menerima penghargaan  Penghargaan Tony untuk Aktor Utama Terbaik dalam sebuah Drama pada tahun 1965, yang kedua setelah A Shot in the Dark pada tahun 1962. Ia memenangkan Academy Award untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik untuk penampilannya dalam film Billy Wilder The Fortune Cookie (1966), dengan nominasi Aktor Terbaik lebih lanjut untuk Kotch (1971) dan The Sunshine Boys (1975). Ia mendapatkan pengakuan lebih lanjut atas perannya sebagai pelatih tim liga kecil yang malang dalam komedi bisbol The Bad News Bears (1976).

Matthau juga dikenal karena penampilannya dalam A Face in the Crowd (1957) karya Elia Kazan, kawan Elvis Presley King Creole (1958), film romantis Stanley Donen Charade (1963), Fail Safe (1964), film musikal Gene Kelly Hello, Dolly! (1969), Komedi konyol Elaine May A New Leaf (1971) dan komedi ensemble Herbert Ross California Suite (1978). Dia juga membintangi Plaza Suite (1971), Charley Varrick (1973), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), The Sunshine Boys (1975), House Calls (1978), Hopscotch (1980) dan Dennis the Menace (1993).

Pada tahun 1982, ia menerima bintang di Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 Filmografi 

 Atomic Attack (1950) (subjek pendek)
 The Kentuckian (1955)
 The Indian Fighter (1955)
 Bigger Than Life (1956)
 A Face in the Crowd (1957)
 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)
 King Creole (1958)
 Voice in the Mirror (1958)
 Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
 Onionhead (1958)
 Gangster Story (1960) (juga sutradara)
 Strangers When We Meet (1960)
 Lonely are the Brave (1962)
 Who's Got the Action? (1962)
 Island of Love (1963)
 Charade (1963)
 Ensign Pulver (1964)
 Fail-Safe (1964)
 Goodbye Charlie (1964)
 Mirage (1965)
 The Fortune Cookie (1966)
 A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
 The Odd Couple (1968)
 The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
 Candy (1968)
 Hello, Dolly! (1969)
 Cactus Flower (1969)
 A New Leaf (1971)
 Plaza Suite (1971)
 Kotch (1971)
 Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
 The Laughing Policeman (1973)
 Charley Varrick (1973)

 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
 Earthquake (1974) (dikreditkan sebagai "Walter Matuschanskayasky")
 The Front Page (1974)
 The Lion Roars Again (1975) (subjek pendek)
 The Gentleman Tramp (1975) (dokumenter)
 The Sunshine Boys (1975)
 The Bad News Bears (1976)
 Casey's Shadow (1978)
 House Calls (1978)
 California Suite (1978)
 Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man (1980) (dokumenter)
 Little Miss Marker (1980)
 Hopscotch (1980)
 First Monday in October (1981)
 Buddy Buddy (1981)
 I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
 The Survivors (1983)
 Movers & Shakers (1985)
 Pirates (1986)
 The Little Devil (1988)
 The Couch Trip (1988)
 JFK (1991) as Senator Russell B. Long
 Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992) (dokumenter)
 Dennis the Menace (1993)
 Grumpy Old Men (1993)
 I.Q. (1994)
 The Grass Harp (1995)
 Grumpier Old Men (1995)
 I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
 Out to Sea (1997)
 The Odd Couple II (1998)
 The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998) (dokumenter)
 Hanging Up (2000)

 Karya TV 

 Dry Run, episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents series (1959)
 Juno and the Paycock (1960)
 Tallahassee 7000 (cast member in 1961)
 Awake and Sing! (1972)
 Actor (1978)
 The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) (voice)
 The Incident (1990)
 Mr. Lambert Remembers Love (1991)
 Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
 Incident in a Small Town (1994)
 The Marriage Fool (1998)

 Penampilan panggung 

 Anne of the Thousand Days (1948) (replacement)
 The Liar (1950)
 Twilight Walk (1951)
 Fancy Meeting You Again (1952)
 One Bright Day (1952)
 In Any Language (1952)
 The Grey-Eyed People (1952)
 The Ladies of the Corridor (1953)
 The Burning Glass (1953)
 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter (1955)
 Once More, with Feeling! (1958)
 Once There Was a Russian (1961)
 A Shot in the Dark (1961)
 My Mother, My Father and Me (1963)
 The Odd Couple (1965)

 Penghargaan 

 Referensi 

 Pranala luar 


 Official Walter Matthau Website (run by his son, Charles) 
 Humorous Quotes 
 Walter Matthau at Find a Grave
 GERMAN WEBSITE OF WALTER MATTHAU & JACK LEMMON

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