Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America\'s heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation.
He paid dues for ten years on Broadway, in summer stock, and on television before landing his film debut The Kentuckian in.
Born Walter Matuschanskayasky into Jewish tenements on New York\'s Lower East Side, he was a child actor in New York Yiddish theater, and later a World War II Air Force radioman-gunner.
Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America\'s heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation