Matthew John Du Toit Van Eyssen was a South African born actor, agent and film production executive in the UK. He moved to Britain following the Second World War, attending the Central School of Speech and Drama. Van Eyssen appeared in films from 1950 as well as on stage (playing Cassio in Orson Welles' 1951 production of Othello, for example) but achieved his greatest fame as an actor when he portrayed Jonathan Harker in the Hammer Film Productions version of Dracula (released as Horror of Dracula in the US) in 1958.