TV programme This Is Your Life, a notable feature of which occurred at the end when he was faded out just as he began to speak directly to the television theatre audience. Having regaled audience and viewers throughout the show with highly engaging reminiscences, there were many press and public complaints to the BBC about the fade out. Host Eamonn Andrews recalled in his autobiography that "Matty had been a bit of a hellion all his life, a loveable, unpredictable rebel whose sense of fun was monumental. I knew I had a tough assignment on my hands once the decision was made to present his 'life'. On transmission, he did just about every solitary thing calculated to wreck the show's intricate timing and drive me up the drapes. He snorted, contradicted, interrupted, laughed, and, at one stage, even stretched out on the couch and said he was going to have a snooze.". On the following day, the Yorkshire Post declared that "There has never been a This Is Your Life quite like it", and a Daily Express article titled Mattie's BBC Fade-Out Angers Viewers wrote that "This was THE life of the whole series." Matthews was still working as an actor right up until his death two years later. He died on 25 July 1960 in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, aged 90. A Blue Plaque is displayed on his former home at 38 Little Bushey Lane, WD23 4RN. In 2008 Greg Knight, the Member of Parliament for the East Riding of Yorkshire constituency, (which includes Matthews's birthplace, Bridlington), launched a successful campaign to have his birthplace recognised with a Blue Plaque. A special ceremony to commemorate his life and career was held in the town on 22 November 2008, organised and compered by Knight. It was attended by the ventriloquist Ray Alan, who knew Matthews and who spoke about his memories of him. Filmography A Highwayman's Honour (1914 short) Wanted: A Widow (1916 short) The Real Thing at Last (1916 short) as Murdered The Lifeguardsman (1916) as Lt. Tosh Once Upon a Time (1918) as Guy Travers The Lackey and the Lady (1919) Castle of Dreams (1919) as Gerald Sumner The Iron Duke (1934) as Lord Hill Men Are Not Gods (1936) as Frederick Skeates Quiet Wedding (1941) as Arthur Royd This England (1941) "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) as Earl of Meadowbrook The Great Mr. Handel (1942) as Charles Jennens Thunder Rock