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Nationality: American. Military Service: U. Air Force as a radioman-gunner, — Career: Worked as a child actor in the New York Yiddish theater; made professional adult stage debut, ; worked in summer stock and on Broadway, ; later stage work includes roles in Once More , with Feeling , , A Shot in the Dark , , and The Odd Couple , ; made film debut in The Kentuckian, ; appeared in the TV series Tallahassee , ; directed the film Gangster Story, Died: Santa Monica, California, of a heart attack , 1 July Daniel Mann as Tony Gagoots.

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May, in New Yorker , 25 November Walter Matthau was one of the motion picture industry's solid, respected character actors. He has 70 films to his credit, commencing—after years of acting on the stage, where he honed his craft—with The Kentuckian and The Indian Fighter in He was at his beloved best playing comically persnickety characters, generally opposite Jack Lemmon , his longtime co-star.

Early in his career, Matthau displayed his versatility in roles as dissimilar as Mel Miller, the astutely perceptive writer who sees through the sham of cynically manipulative television personality Lonesome Rhodes, in A Face in the Crowd ; Maxie Fields, the crime boss who menaces Elvis Presley , in King Creole ; and Sheriff Johnson, the Western lawman who doggedly pursues Kirk Douglas , in Lonely Are the Brave.