Television and Film
- A. E. Matthews, English actor
- Chris Matthews, American television talk show host
- Dakin Matthews, American actor with a long history of work in film, television and theater
- Francis Matthews (actor), English film, TV and stage actor
- Herbert Matthews, reporter for the New York Times said to be the first to report Fidel Castro was alive in the Sierra Maestra
- Kathleen Matthews, anchor for ABC 7 News/ WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.
- Lester Matthews, English actor
- Liesel Matthews, American heiress, socialite, and actress
- Sally Ann Matthews, English actress known for roles in British soap operas
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Famous quotes containing the words television and, television and/or film:
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)