John Usher Monro

December, 1967

"I'm a sort of a Ukrainian Cary Grant," deadpans 1966 Oscar winner Walter Matthau (Best Supporting Actor, in The Fortune Cookie) while commenting on his nonmatinee-idol mobile countenance. "I could be anyone from a men's-room attendant to a business executive." Endowed with a disturbingly familiar, you-look-like-a-guy-I-knew-in-the-Army face, 47-year-old Matthau had been almost typecast as a minor cinemenace in Hollywood gangster and Western pictures until writer Neil Simon a...