* Walter Matthau gained fame and fortune playing curmudgeons and grumpy old men (obituary, July 2), but off screen he was nothing like that, as literally thousands of his neighbors in Pacific ...

WALTER MATTHAU, who died of a heart attack last week at 79, made moviegoers laugh at their own venality--make that humanity. A deft character actor with star quality, he was the ideal mouthpiece ...

Actor Walter Matthau dies at 79. Walter Matthau in the 1974 film "The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three" July 1, 2000 Web posted at: 10:05 a.m. EDT (1405 GMT) ...

Walter Matthau, the lovably grumpy comic actor with the hangdog face and gruff voice, died Saturday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 79. Matthau was brought into the hospital ...

DVD Watch Elaine May & Walter Matthau in the underrated 'A New Leaf' By Kimberley Jones, 9:30AM, Tue. Sep. 4, 2012 ...