[2] After leaving the military he returned to the stage, appearing in a 1954 touring production of the play No Escape, which starred Flora Robson.

[3] In the 1950s and 1960s, Matthews's film roles for Hammer Studios included the Baron's assistant in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) and the heroes of Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Rasputin the Mad Monk (both 1966).

[7] (He divided his time, during the recording sessions, between his work there and his stage appearances in Noël Coward's play Private Lives.

[9] In the late 1970s, he served as narrator and host for Follow Me!, a BBC educational programme that offered a "crash course" in the English language to foreign viewers.

[6] In 2000, they starred in two Ray Cooney plays on the cruise ship MS Marco Polo, while she was sailing to the Antarctic: Run For Your Wife and Funny Money.