Best movies of Walter Matthau

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Michael Kane, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau,
Directors : David Miller,

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

During a high profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Robin Williams, James Wainwright, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Actors : Damien Thomas, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Olu Jacobs,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Actors : Donna Dixon, Charles Grodin, Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird. His tactless radio show is a hit, and he becomes very popular. ...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Edward Furlong, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Charles Matthau,

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 ...

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Lee Grant, Walter Matthau, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

In San Francisco, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

Actors : Sue Ane Langdon, Jackie Russell, Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens,
Directors : Gene Kelly,

A man gives his co-worker a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

Actors : Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson, Ossie Davis, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Herb Gardner,

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 ...

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, Gregory Peck, Walter Matthau, Diane Baker,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A New York man suffers amnesia. He soon learns that he's mixed up in a life-and-death situation, but what exactly is it?

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Art Carney, Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age...

Actors : Stefano Antonucci, Paolo Baroni, Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Roberto Benigni,

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a ...

Actors : Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Robert Webber, Alexis Smith, Murray Hamilton, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Casey is a young boy in a family that trains racehorses. His best friend, a foal they call "Casey's Shadow", looks to be a loser, but comes out a champion.

Actors : Tommy Sands, Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

Life becomes so harried after Ensign Pulver's prank, he and the Captain are swept off deck during a storm, ending up on a tropical island, a group of ship wrecked nurses, dancing natives and 1 very big case of appendicitis.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Carol Burnett, Walter Matthau, Barry Nelson,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Walter Bernstein,

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his ...

Actors : Jan Sterling, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.