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Curmudgeon
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A curmudgeon is a miser or an ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions. Well-known curmudgeons Non-fictional *Cleveland Amory *Quentin Crisp *R. Crumb *W. C. Fields *Malcolm Muggeridge *Paul Fussell *Harold L. Ickes *James Howard Kunstler *Oscar Levant *H. L. Mencken *Phil Mushnick *Friedrich Nietzsche *Dorothy Parker *Andy Rooney *George Bernard Shaw *Jeremy Clarkson *Valerie Robinson *Mark Twain *Suma Das Fictional There have been numerous well-known curmudgeons, fictional and non-fictional, throughout society. Some are: *Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, *Carl Fredrickson (pre-transformation) *Colonel Blimp *Commander McBragg *Stanley Roper *Ebenezer Scrooge (pre-transformation) *Ignatius J. Reilly *Grinch (pre-transformation]] *Statler and Waldorf In his later years, the actor Walter Matthau played curmudgeons (e.g., in Grumpy Old Men' ). Gregory House (protagonist of the Fox Network medical drama House) has been described as a curmudgeon, which was named one of the top television words of 2006 in honor of the character. 
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