
He is survived by his sons Paul, Dominic and Damien, five grandchildren, his brother, the actor Paul Shelley, and his sister Maura. It is the duty of Captain Scarlet and his colleagues to take a convoy along this route. In 1969, he took up the role of playboy detective Paul Temple in the eponymous BBC series. Waddingtons Captain Scarlet Game - The fight with the Mysterons. Matthews later admitted his voice was based on a party-piece impression of Cary Grant.

In 1967, puppeteer Gerry Anderson asked Matthews to be the voice of Captain Scarlet. In his dual identity as Sir Percy, the Scarlet Pimpernel dupes most of British society and the. In 1962, he met fellow actor Angela Browne on the set of BBC thriller Dark Island and they married the following year. As the Scarlet Pimpernel, a cunning master of disguise. Matthews went on to star alongside Morecambe and Wise in The Intelligence Men (1965) and followed with That Riviera Touch (1966), The Mark of the Hawk (1957) and Crossplot (1968). Said to be bored with demands that she be photographed in London nightspots, Gardner rebelled, taking up Matthews' offer to have tea with his parents in Surbiton.

While filming alongside Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction in London in 1956, he introduced the superstar – then married to Frank Sinatra – to suburban life. Captain Black is the fictional nemesis of Captain Scarlet and the primary recurring Mysteron intermediary in the 1960s British Supermarionation television. When a misunderstanding causes human astronauts to attack their city on Mars, the Mysterons vow revenge and launch reprisals against Earth. Matthews started his career at the Leeds Rep, and after being demobbed from the Royal Navy he starred in stage productions across the country. I’ve always thought that while Thunderbirds is more wow, Captain Scarlet is the moment that all the technology and skills of Gerry and his team shone the brightest. Set in 2068, Captain Scarlet follows the 'war of nerves' between Earth and the Mysterons, a race of Martians who possess partial control over matter.
