Walter Matthau — Actor (55)

Movie

Voice in the Mirror (1958)
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Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become mentally ill strikes enough fear into him that he really wants to cure himself...but can't. One night, he meets William Tobin, a fellow drunk, and finds that he helps himself by trying to help Tobin. Thus is born, amid setbacks, a group resembling Alcoholics Anonymous.

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The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
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other title: 町一番のけちんぼう / 无城里的吝啬鬼 …
An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical, this charming cartoon stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. It features animation by Japanese studio Topcraft, known for their work on other Rankin/Bass films such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn.

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I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
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other title: Eigentlich wollte ich zum Film / Soy tu hija, ¿No te acuerdas? …
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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Movers & Shakers (1985)
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other title: Esto no es Hollywood / 戲外戲 …
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.

TV

Tallahassee 7000 (1961)
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Special Agent Lex Rogers of the Florida Sheriff's Bureau travels the state to assist local police departments fight crime in their jurisdiction.

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Goodbye Charlie (1964)
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other title: Au revoir Charlie / Adiós, Charlie …
When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.

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淘气老顽童 (1996)
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other title: I'm Not Rappaport
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'

Performance

Guys and Dolls 1955 Broadway Revival版
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theater: City Center director: Philip Mathias
other title: 1955 Broadway Revival版 playwright: Abe Burrows composer: Frank Loesser actor: Tom Ahearne / Joe Bernard …
该剧由Damon Runyon的两则短篇故事改编,首演后大受欢迎,1200场的佳绩在当时是很罕见的。曾获托尼奖最佳音乐剧、最佳男主角、最佳编舞等五项大奖。此后几乎每十年,该剧就会在百老汇和伦敦复排一次,每一次都能吸引大量观众。该剧1955年改编为电影,由马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando主演。名曲包括“Luck Be a Lady”、“If I Were a Bell”等。

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Plaza Suite (1971)
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other title: 幸福大饭店 / 桃色酒店 …
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 to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.

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Out to Sea (1997)
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other title: 大海之外 / 海之外 …
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.