ACTOR

Walter Matthau

1920 - 2000

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Walter Matthau (; born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor, comedian and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie (1966). He is best known for his film roles in A Face in the Crowd (1957), King Creole (1958), and as a coach of a hapless little league team in the baseball comedy The Bad News Bears (1976). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Matthau has received more than 7,425,108 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Walter Matthau is the 407th most popular actor (down from 314th in 2019), the 738th most popular biography from United States (down from 571st in 2019) and the 203rd most popular American Actor.

Walter Matthau is most famous for his roles in the films The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie, and Grumpy Old Men.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Walter Matthaus by language

Over the past year Walter Matthau has had the most page views in the with 963,041 views, followed by German (131,565), and Italian (88,570). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (147.73%), Uzbek (119.49%), and Piedmontese (117.00%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Walter Matthau ranks 407 out of 13,578. Before him are Danny Glover, John Lithgow, Richard Griffiths, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Doris Day, and Christopher Lambert. After him are Alan Arkin, Gerard Butler, Ron Perlman, Robert Mitchum, Burt Reynolds, and James Caan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Walter Matthau ranks 33. Before him are Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, François Jacob, Zecharia Sitchin, Fritz Walter, Clarice Lispector, and Montgomery Clift. After him are Douglass North, Sergei Bondarchuk, John Demjanjuk, Alberto Sordi, Ravi Shankar, and Sun Myung Moon. Among people deceased in 2000, Walter Matthau ranks 21. Before him are Louis Néel, Lída Baarová, Gherman Titov, Konrad Emil Bloch, Giovanna of Italy, and Erich Mielke. After him are Pierre Trudeau, Tommaso Buscetta, Carl Barks, Empress Kōjun, Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Jason Robards.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Matthau ranks 738 out of 20,380. Before him are Doris Day (1922), Henry Mancini (1924), Christopher Lambert (1957), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Thorstein Veblen (1857), and Truman Capote (1924). After him are Alan Arkin (1934), Douglas Osheroff (1945), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Ron Perlman (1950), John Carpenter (1948), and Alan Shepard (1923).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Walter Matthau ranks 203. Before him are Warren Beatty (1937), Karl Malden (1912), Danny Glover (1946), John Lithgow (1945), Doris Day (1922), and Christopher Lambert (1957). After him are Alan Arkin (1934), Ron Perlman (1950), Robert Mitchum (1917), Burt Reynolds (1936), James Caan (1940), and Ali MacGraw (1939).

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Television and Movie Roles

Charade
Hamilton Bartholemew
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?
Dec 5o 19637.7 / 10
Dennis the Menace
George Wilson
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Jun 24o 19935.798 / 10
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Lt. Garber
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Oct 2o 19747.42 / 10