content: He claimed that spelling himself and used it even in a famous movie "Earthquake" in the official legal credits to the movie. Also, from wikipedia  :  His mother, Rose (née Berolsky), was a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant. His father, Milton Matthow, was a Ukrainian-Jewish peddler and electrician, from Kiev, Ukraine. Two jewish parents, according to wikipedia.    Jews lie, I assume Walter Matthau lied about spellings of his many names, even you used one letter "t" in his stage name when normally his stage name has two "t"s in the last name. Its just slippery deceit..