Sinbad Stops

I see that Kerwin Mathews, the film actor, has died at the age of 81. While he appeared in a number of terrible films (e.g. Octaman), he was also the lead in two of Ray Harryhausen’s wonderful fantasy films: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver. It’s for those films that I will remember him, particularly as Sinbad. Even at the tender age of 9, I realised that my feelings toward this handsome and dashing man were a tad more complicated than just hero worship. The obituary and this potted biography also report that Mathews is survived by his partner of 46 years, Tom Nicoll. So he was gay as well. That, I never knew.