walter matthau played felix ungar in the odd couple on the original broadway performance.
walter matthau played felix ungar in the odd couple on the original broadway performance.
who played felix ungar in the odd couple on the original broadway performance?
walter matthau
comedies were rare in matthau's work at that time. he was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as "fail safe" (1964), in which he portrayed pentagon adviser dr. groeteschele, who urges an all-out nuclear attack on the soviet union in response to an accidental transmission of an attack signal to u.s. air force bombers. neil simon cast him in the play "the odd couple" in 1965, with matthau playing slovenly sportswriter oscar madison, opposite art carney as felix ungar. matthau later reprised the role in the film version, with jack lemmon as felix ungar. he played detective ted casselle in the hitchcockian thriller "mirage" (1965), directed by edward dmytryk.
walter matthau
the odd couple is a play by neil simon. following its premiere on broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s television series, as well as several other derivative works and spin-offs. the plot concerns two mismatched roommates: the neat, uptight felix ungar and the slovenly, easygoing oscar madison. simon adapted the play in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates (florence ungar and olive madison) in the female odd couple. an updated version of the 1965 show appeared in 2002 with the title oscar and felix: a new look at the odd couple.
the odd couple (play)