Trivia

Survived by his life partner Tom Nicoll with whom he had lived from 1961 until his death in 2007.

Dark, dexterous, handsome hero of adventure fantasies, costumers and swashbucklers whose 50s and 60s career was bolstered by battling some of Ray Harryhausen's famous animated creatures.

Attended Janesville High School in Janesville, Wisconsin, and Beloit College, in Beloit, Wisconsin, where he learned fencing.

Was a teacher before getting into the acting field.

Although Andrew Keir played his father in The Pirates of Blood River (1962), Mathews was three months his senior in real life.

Kerwin has lived in San Francisco since 1970 and manages Pierre Deux, a French country furniture and decorative accessories store.

Body cremated.