Kerwin Mathews
Kerwin Mathews ( born January 8, 1926 in Seattle, Washington, USA, † July 5, 2007 in San Francisco, California, United States) was an American film actor.
Life
Mathews grew up with his mother in Janesville (Wisconsin ), where he attended high school. After he graduated from college in Beloit (WI ), where he completed his education.
Before he started as an actor, he worked briefly as a teacher in a High School in Lake Geneva (WI).
In 1954, Columbia Pictures signed him and made from 1 meter 85 large, stately man, at least for a short time a popular Hollywood actor, who has seen his breakthrough 1958 in Sindbad's seventh trip. Two years later, in 1960, Mathews was in Lord of the three worlds in front of the camera, his most famous fantasy film.
But the success was short-lived. As early as the mid-1960s saw Mathews propagated in B-movies and low-budget productions. 1978, after the production of the horror flick Nightmare in Blood to Mathews retired from acting.
In the last years of his life Mathews lived in San Francisco; at times he earned his living as an antique dealer.
He died in July 2007 at the age of 81 years of natural causes.
While Mathews in his more than 30 film roles embodied mostly men, where women lay at his feet and he often also shot intimate scenes with women, Mathews was actually gay and lived for 46 years in a gay community.