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Oct 21, 2021 · The Matthau Company is led by entrepreneurial director Charles Matthau. The company focuses on feature film and television projects with humanity and humor — qualities that have always defined great storytelling.
The Matthau Company was started in 1990 by Walter and Charlie Matthau. It has been involved in some beloved films of the last three decades.
The Matthau Company’s passion for storytelling is what led Charlie to pursue director’s chair for an adaptation of Truman Capote’s work, “The Grass Harp” in 1996. He directed his father and Jack Lemmon, a legendary comic duo, alongside Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie.
- Man of Words
- Best Actor
- Theory of Gambling
- Hello Ingrid Bergman
- Facing The Facts
- A Real Dead End Kid
- Not-So-Odd Couple
- The Tide Turns
- Quit Cold Turkey
- A Typical Day
His devious knowledge of words once came out when we were conversing about his fondness for his children. He has one son, Charlie, by his present wife of 22 years, Carol. Charlie is 19 years old. He has two stepchildren, Aram and Lucy, who are Carol's kids by her marriage to the late author William Saroyan. And Walter has two children of his first ...
Advance corps. He became the unofficial French and German interpreter as they moved forward. He doesn't really speak or read either language fluently. But he has an incredible ear for sounds and his accent is always on the mark. Armed with only a few hundred words he can fool the natives. He loves crossword puzzles and does the one in The New York ...
I asked him whether there was any truth in the theory that some people unconsciously wanted to lose. They were only happy when they lost. Had he experienced some weird kind of masochistic joy when Kaplan took him to the cleaners?"Ridiculous. I want to win. I often win. Winning is nice. But winning is not as exciting as losing. The emotions of losin...
Walter loves to shock people out of their stuffed shirt-or stuffed bodice as the case may be. On the first day of shooting Cactus Flower, he was introduced to his costar Ingrid Bergman. He didn't waste time in elaborate courtesies. He took her in his arms, bent her backwards and gave her one of the deepest, wettest kisses of her life. Did you ever ...
He once told Jack Lemmon that he was considering a total plastic job to give him a better face. He said then he could play the hero. He could play leading men. Also, "I could get all the broads." Lemmon was horrified. He told Walter that he must never, ever, even consider such an operation. Lemmon gets rhapsodic when he describes Matthau's face. "H...
Walter had to learn to be self-dependent at an early age. He started working after school—selling candy in local theaters. He was a sports fanatic. At Seward Park High School he was on the basketball, boxing, and track teams. But he also won a national spelling bee in 1937. He already was living life on several levels simultaneously. He was reading...
Sometime in 1964, Walter and Carol went to a party in White Plains, N.Y. Among the guests was Neil Simon, who had already written two Broadway hits, including Barefoot in the Park, in which Jane Fonda and Robert Redford were the leads. For several months, Simon had been mulling over an idea about a sloppy sportswriter, living alone since his divorc...
This was the turning of the tide in the affairs of Walter Matthau and he caught it at the flood. What if Walter and Carol had not gone to the party? Who knows? Neil Simon swore to me that sooner or later Walter would have been discovered as the superb comedian that he is, and Walter has sworn to me that Oscar Madison is such a perfect role that any...
As soon as he recovered, Walter immediately stopped smoking. Cold turkey. He doesn't even allow people near him to smoke. He has only one exception to the rule. Lemmon, whose Havana cigars he endures. Then he ceased heavy gambling. He still makes wagers but now it's fives and tens instead of thousands of dollars. And he started eating simple meals ...
Nowadays Walter walks from two to five miles every day. He awakens about 6:00 a.m. With a friend-usually novelist-screenwriter Paul Zindel, who lives nearby, he walks for about two hours along a firebreak in the Santa Monica Mountains, near Beverly Hills. Then he breakfasts lightly on poached eggs and whole wheat toast and herbal tea and a few vita...
Working his way up from poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to varied roles in more than 20 Broadway plays and scores of live television shows, Walter Matthau became, successively, an adept movie villain and comedian and later, improbably, a romantic leading man and international superstar.
Primary. 4250Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90010, US. Get directions. Employees at THE MATTHAU COMPANY. Charlie M. Veteran Filmmaker & Production Executive | Founder of Matthau Media...
The Matthau Company - The Official Website of Walter, Carol, and Charlie Matthau. Charles Matthau is an American director, writer and producer who is best known for turning novels into...
- The Matthau Company - The Official Website of Walter, Carol, and Charlie Matthau
