Walter Matthau

All Movies of Walter Matthau

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  Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost
  Ben Stiller's film offers an intimate look into the lives of his parents, the legendary comedic duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. It explores their profound influence on both popular culture and their personal family life, where t...
  Character: Self - Actor, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

   2025

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  Billy Wilder Speaks
  Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.
  Character: Himself (archive footage)

   2006

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  3.1
  Hanging Up
   2000

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  7.1
  The Grass Harp
  After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena...
  Character: Judge Charlie Cool

   1995

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  5.7
  Grumpier Old Men
  Character: Max Goldman

   1995

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  5.0
  Incident in a Small Town (TV)
   1994

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  I.Q.
  Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and wi...
   1994

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  6.0
  Grumpy Old Men
  John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to her, an...
   1993

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  5.3
  Dennis the Menace
  When his parents have to go out of town, Dennis stays with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. The little menace is driving Mr. Wilson crazy, but Dennis is just trying to be helpful. Even to the thief who's arrived in town.
  Character: Mr. Wilson

   1993

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  Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV)
  In his second dramatic case, a small town lawyer must now fight the State of Maryland, on behalf of an incarcelated woman who is refused release from a mental institution.
   1992

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  8.0
  J.F.K. (JFK)
  Real-life New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) sets out to investigate the murder of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. In the process, he discovers an intricate conspiracy involving a group of decadent gay men ...
  Character: Senator Long

   1991

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  The Incident (TV)
  A mysterious murder takes place in a prisoner of war camp in a small town in Colorado during World War II. A local lawyer with a son fighting in Europe is coerced into defending a German POW accused of murdering the local man, who...
   1990

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  The Couch Trip
   1988

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  6.9
  The Little Devil
  Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone...
  Character: Padre Maurizio

   1988

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  5.1
  Pirates
  Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny,...
  Character: Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red

   1986

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  5.6
  The Survivors
  Sonny Paluso and Donald Quinelle are two unfortunate people who have just lost their jobs; Sonny's gas station has been blown away and Donald has just been fired by his boss's parrot! But that day, their lives change when they pre...
  Character: Sonny Paluso

   1983

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  First Monday in October
   1981

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  Hopscotch
  The most dangerous man in the world. He's about to expose the CIA, the FBI, the KGB...and himself. CIA agent Miles Kendig, tired of his incompetent colleagues, decides to get out of 'the game' and to ensure he's left alone he thre...
   1980

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  6.1
  California Suite
  This stunning ensemble cast tells the story of four different guests in a hotel. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda are a divorced couple fighting over the visitation of their daughter. Maggie Smith is coming to watch the Oscars with Michae...
   1978

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  The Bad News Bears
  One of director Michael Ritchie’s most universally recognized comedies, THE BAD NEWS BEARS is a film that continues to entertain audiences of all ages. The story concerns a hopeless Little League team that eventually scores big ...
   1976

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  7.6
  The Sunshine Boys
  Al Lewis and Willy Clark were once a popular vaudeville comedy team called Lewis and Clark, also known as The Sunshine Boys. After forty-three years as a team, they parted company over eleven years prior on not too friendly terms ...
  Character: Willy Clark

   1975

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  7.7
  The Front Page
  Chicago, 1929. Hildy Johnson, a reporter of a Chicago newspaper, wants to quit and get married, but the editor of the newspaper, Walter Burns, asks her to stay and write the story of Earl Williams, a murderer convicted to the gall
   1974

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  5.3
  Earthquake
  Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her father, Sam Royce, who is Stuart's e...
  Character: Drunk (as Walter Matuschanskayasky)

   1974

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  7.4
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
  Four armed men hijack a New York City subway train and demand 1 million dollars - which must be delivered in 1 hour - for the train and the lives of the passengers held hostage. Lt. Zachary Garber of the New York City Transit Poli...
  Character: Police Lt. Zachary Garber

   1974

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  7.4
  Charley Varrick
  In this compact, fast-paced action thriller, a bank robber really messes up when he and his gang accidentally knock over a Mafia-controlled New Mexico bank. As a result, they must figure out a way to not only evade the police but
  Character: Charley Varrick

   1973

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  6.9
  Pete 'n' Tillie
  Pete (Mathau) and Tillie (Burnett) marry, have a child and have their marriage tested by the child's death (Lee Montgomery).
  Character: Pete

   1972

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  6.0
  A New Leaf
  Henry Graham is a man with a problem: he has run through his entire inheritance, and is completely unequipped to provide for himself. His childhood guardian, Uncle Harry (a deliciously mean-spirited James Coco), refuses to give hi...
   1971

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  6.0
  Plaza Suite
  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 ...
   1971

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  6.9
  Kotch
  Joseph Kotcher, a retired traveling salesman, lives with his son Gerald and daughter-in-law Wilma in Los Angeles. He dotes upon his young grandson Duncan irritating high-strung Wilma to the point that she hires Erica, a high schoo...
  Character: Joseph P. Kotcher

   1971

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  8.1
  King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
  King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of recordings by Dr. King, framed by celebrity nar...
  Character: Himself

   1970

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  6.5
  Hello, Dolly!
  Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a &qu...
  Character: Horace Vandergelder

   1969

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  7.7
  Cactus Flower
  Twenty-one year old Toni Simmons and middle aged married dentist Dr. Julian Winston are in love with each other. Toni values honesty above all else, but their relationship is based on a lie: Julian is not married. He initially tol...
  Character: Dr. Julian Winston

   1969

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  The Secret Life of an American Wife
  A bored housewife poses as a call girl for a movie star sex-symbol, hoping she can prove to her husband, the star's agent, that she is still desirable to other men and thereby, rekindle the spark in their marriage.
  Character: The Movie Star

   1968

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  5.4
  Candy
  Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.
  Character: Gen. R.A. Smight

   1968

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  7.4
  The Odd Couple
  Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondant, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend O...
  Character: Oscar Madison

   1968

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  6.0
  A Guide for the Married Man
   1967

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  8.0
  The Fortune Cookie
  Harry Hinkle is a cameraman who is broadcasting a live game until a football player hits him. Despite the insignificant concussion, his brother in law, who is a lawyer, suggests to him to pretend a serious injury in order to get m...
  Character: Willie Gingrich

   1966

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  7.5
  Mirage
  In New York City, an accountant's memory suddenly becomes mixed up starting from the moment the building he is in has a power blackout. He is bewildered that he can't recall even simple particulars of his job and places he does re...
  Character: Ted Caselle

   1965

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  Profiles in Courage (TV Series)
  TV Series (1964-1965). 26 episodes. This anthology series presented episodes in the lives of true-life historical personages who each faced a terrible crisis in their life.
   1964

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  7.0
  Ensign Pulver
  In this sequel to "Mister Roberts," the crew of the U.S.S. Reluctant find themselves docked beside an island which boasts a barrack full of attractive nurses. 1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Capt...
   1964

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  6.7
  Goodbye Charlie
  Very much a product of its time with its swingin' sixties, playboy aura. Hollywood writer Charlie Sorel is murdered by film producer Leopold Sartori (Walter Matthau) when he catches Charlie with his wife. But the playboy is reinca...
  Character: Sir Leopold Sartori

   1964

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  8.5
  Charade
  Regina is about to divorce her husband when she finds that he has been murdered after converting every penny they owned to cash, which is also missing. She meets Cary Grant who changes his name every 15 minutes or so and is intere...
  Character: Hamilton Bartholomew

   1963

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  6.5
  Lonely are the Brave
  In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters
   1962

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  Strangers When We Meet
  Architect Larry Coe has a wife and family, but becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault, a neighbor with her own family. The two lovers are forced to face the choice between love and loyalty.
   1960

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  Naked City (TV Series)
  TV Series (1958-1963). 4 seasons. 138 episodes. A crime drama that focused on the lives of the detectives of New York's 65th Precinct. The emphasis in the stories was mostly on real-life crime and the human element. Season one sta...
   1958

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  6.0
  King Creole
  Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to pe...
   1958

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  Onionhead
   1958

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  A Face in the Crowd
  A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
   1957

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  7.0
  Bigger than Life
  James Mason plays Ed Avery, a small-town, '50s schoolteacher working two jobs and suffering debilitating illness who finds a cure - a new experimental wonder drug that seems to take away his pain and appears to free him from the c...
   1956

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  6.2
  The Kentuckian
  A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant
  Character: Stan Bodine

   1955