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Walter Matthau's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

1965 Best Actor in a Play (The Odd Couple)

Born October 1, 1920

Died July 1, 2000

The Businessman

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.

In the record

Walter John Matthau (né Matthow, MATH-ow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. The birth-card coordinate for October 1 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1965 Best Actor in a Play (The Odd Couple) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Walter Matthau's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Walter Matthau. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

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Walter Matthau in the public record

He starred in 10 films alongside his real-life friend Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). The New York Times called this "one of Hollywood's most successful pairings". Among other accolades, Matthau won an Academy Award, one BAFTA Award, and two Tony Awards. On Broadway, Matthau originated the role of Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple by playwright Neil Simon, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play in 1965, his second after A Shot in the Dark in 1962. Matthau won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie (1966), with further Best Actor nominations for Kotch (1971) and The Sunshine Boys (1975). He gained further recognition for his portrayal of the coach of a hapless little league team in the baseball comedy The Bad News Bears (1976). Matthau is also known for his performances in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957), the Elvis Presley vehicle King Creole (1958), Stanley Donen's romance Charade (1963), Fail Safe (1964), Gene Kelly's musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), Elaine May's screwball comedy A New Leaf (1971) and Herbert Ross's ensemble comedy California Suite (1978). He also starred in Plaza Suite (1971), Charley Varrick (1973), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), The Sunshine Boys (1975), House Calls (1978), Hopscotch (1980) and Dennis the Menace (1993).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Walter Matthau (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Cards in Walter Matthau's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 8♦, 7♣, Q♠, 3♥, Q♣, A♥, K♠, A♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.

Also on the record

  1. In 1982, Matthau received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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FAQ

What is Walter Matthau's birth card?
The 8 of Diamonds. October 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
Where do Walter Matthau's dates come from?
Birth date 1920-10-01 is the day-precision date on Walter Matthau's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q202172) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Walter Matthau). Birth date 1920-10-01 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).