year career, Mathews captured several titles in different disciplines of the game, although he is best known for his success in one-pocket. In December 2005, Grady Mathews competed in the International Pool Tour King of the Hill Shootout in Orlando, Florida, an invitational event consisting of 43 pool players with accomplishments in the discipline of pocket billiards, and was a member of the International Pool Tour. Titles & achievements 1981 Montana Open 9-Ball 1983 Houston Red's Open One Pocket 1984 North Carolina Open 9-Ball 1984 Austin One Pocket Championship 1984 River City Open One Pocket 1984 Busch Open 9-ball 1985 Cleveland Open 14.1 1985 Houston Red's Open One-pocket 1985 Motor City Open 9-Ball 1990 Granite State Open 14.1 1995 Legends of One Pocket Championship 1996 Taco Bell Seniors 9-Ball Championship 2004 One Pocket Hall of Fame Filmography In 1986, Mathews played the character "Dud" with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film The Color of Money, loosely based on the novel by Walter Tevis (the sequel to The Hustler). Promotion Mathews promoted and produced the following pool tournaments: 1983 All Around Pocket Billiards Championship (Tampa, Florida) 1985 Motor City Nine-Ball Open (Detroit, Michigan) 1991 Legends of One-Pocket Championship (Columbia, South Carolina) 1991 Legends of One-Pocket Championship (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 1993 Legends of One-Pocket Championship (Reno, Nevada) 1994 Legends of One-Pocket Championship (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 1995 Maine Event 14.1 Championship (Portland, Maine) 1995 Legends of One-Pocket Championship (Olathe, Kansas) 1995 Back Pocket Nine-Ball Open (Hampton, Virginia) 1998 Legends of One-Pocket Championship (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) 1999 Seniors Nine-ball Championship (Portland, Maine) 2000 Legends of One-Pocket Championship (Portland, Maine) 2003 Legends of One-Pocket Championship 2003 Legends of Straight Pool Championship (Columbia, SC) 2003 Seniors Nine-ball Championship (Naples, Florida) 2004 Gulf Coast Classic (Gulfport, Mississippi) Mathews is also well known for his work as a commentator on numerous matches recorded by Accu-Stats Video Productions, and has produced many of his own instructional videos providing strategies for the game of One Pocket. Up until his death, he wrote a monthly instruction column for InsidePOOL Magazine and has been a contributing writer to other pool periodicals such as Billiards Digest, 1984-1987, The Snap Magazine, 1989-1991, and The National Billiard News. References American pool players 1943 births 2012 deaths