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James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British
British people

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 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 who attained stardom in both British
United Kingdom

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 and American
United States

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 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s.

n was born in Huddersfield
Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town within the Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

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, to John and Mabel Mason; his father was a wealthy merchant. Mason had no formal training as an actor and initially embarked upon it for fun. He was educated at Marlborough College
Marlborough College

Marlborough College is an England Independent school , co-educational boarding school in the county of Wiltshire.Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs....
, and earned a first
British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grade scheme for undergraduate degrees in the United Kingdom. The system has been applied in other countries, such as India, the Republic of Ireland, Kenya, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Malta and Canada....
 in architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 284 undergraduates, 130 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest University_of_Cambridge/Colleges in Cambridge, except for certain colleges that admit only women, graduates, or mature studen...
 where he became involved in stock theatre companies in his spare time.






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James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 who attained stardom in both British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s.

Biography


Early life

Mason was born in Huddersfield
Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town within the Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, to John and Mabel Mason; his father was a wealthy merchant. Mason had no formal training as an actor and initially embarked upon it for fun. He was educated at Marlborough College
Marlborough College

Marlborough College is an England Independent school , co-educational boarding school in the county of Wiltshire.Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs....
, and earned a first
British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grade scheme for undergraduate degrees in the United Kingdom. The system has been applied in other countries, such as India, the Republic of Ireland, Kenya, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Malta and Canada....
 in architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 284 undergraduates, 130 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest University_of_Cambridge/Colleges in Cambridge, except for certain colleges that admit only women, graduates, or mature studen...
 where he became involved in stock theatre companies in his spare time. After Cambridge he joined the Old Vic
Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road, London. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1951....
 theatre in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 under the guidance of Tyrone Guthrie
Tyrone Guthrie

Sir William Tyrone Guthrie was an Anglo-Irish Tony Award-winning theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, at his family's home, Annaghmakerrig, in County Monaghan, Ireland....
 and Alexander Korda
Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born film director and film producer. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion, a film distributing company....
, who gave Mason a small film role in 1933 but fired him a few days into shooting.

Career

From 1935
1935 in film

Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
 to 1948 he starred in many British quota quickies
Cinematograph Films Act 1927

The Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 was an Acts of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to stimulate the declining Cinema of the United Kingdom....
. A conscientious objector
Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant organization armed forces....
 during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 (something which caused his family to break with him for many years), he became immensely popular for his brooding anti-heroes in the Gainsborough
Gainsborough Pictures

Gainsborough Pictures was a United Kingdom film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the London Borough of Hackney....
 series of melodramas of the 1940s, including The Man in Grey
The Man in Grey

The Man in Grey is a 1943 in film English film melodrama made by Gainsborough Pictures, and is widely considered as the first of its "Gainsborough melodramas" ....
 and The Wicked Lady
The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady was a 1945 in film film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who turns to robbery for enjoyment and to repay gambling debts....
. He also starred with Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
 and Robert Newton
Robert Newton

Robert Newton was a noted English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially British boys....
 in 1942's Hatter's Castle
Hatter's Castle (film)

Hatter's Castle is a 1941 in film United Kingdom film adaptation of the 1931 novel by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility....
. Mason starred in the critically acclaimed and immensely popular The Seventh Veil
The Seventh Veil

The Seventh Veil is a 1945 in film United Kingdom melodrama film made by Sydney Box Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures....
 that set box office records in postwar Britain and catapulted him to international film stardom. In 1949
1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
, he made his first Hollywood film, Caught, and then went on to star in many more feature films and early TV shows. Nominated three times for an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
, he never won one.

Mason's distinctive voice enabled him to play a menacing villain as greatly as his good looks assisted him as a leading man. His roles include the declining actor in the 1954 version of A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born (1954 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1954 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Moss Hart is an adaptation of the A Star Is Born , which was based on a story by William A....
, a mortally wounded Irish revolutionary in Odd Man Out
Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out is an Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green....
, Brutus in Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (1953 film)

Julius Caesar is an MGM film adaptation of the Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman....
, General Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , was perhaps the most famous Germany Generalfeldmarschall of World War II. He was the commander of the Afrika Korps and became known for the skillful military campaigns he waged on behalf of the Wehrmacht in North Africa....
 twice—in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel is a 1951 film with James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Also in the cast are Jessica Tandy and Leo G....
, and in The Desert Rats—Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 in film film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax and Peter Lorre as Conseil....
, a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of Cortisone in Bigger Than Life
Bigger Than Life

Bigger Than Life is an American film made in 1956 directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Mason, who also co-wrote and produced the film, about a school teacher and family man whose life spins out of control upon becoming addicted to cortisone....
, a suave master spy in North by Northwest
North by Northwest

North by Northwest is an Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G....
, a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1959 adventure film adapted by Charles Brackett Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. It stars Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, Thayer David, Alan Napier, and Gertrude the Duck....
, Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
's Lolita
Lolita (1962 film)

Lolita is an influential 1962 in film drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty....
, a hired assassin sent to kill Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole

Peter Seamus O'Toole is an Irish people actor of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom in 1962 playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia ....
 and thereby prevent him from leading a peasant uprising in Lord Jim
Lord Jim (1965 film)

Lord Jim is a 1965 in film adventure film made by Columbia Pictures. It was produced and directed by Richard Brooks with Jules Buck and Peter O'Toole as associate producers, from a screenplay by Brooks, based on the 1900 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad....
, the vampire
Kurt Barlow

Kurt Barlow is a fictional character in Stephen King's 1975 horror fiction novel, Salem's Lot. The character is a Vampire_#Type_Ones, who terrorizes the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot....
's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot (1979 TV mini-series)

Salem's Lot is a 1979 Horror fiction television mini-series directed by Tobe Hooper, from the Paul Monash teleplay, and starred former Starsky & Hutch actor David Soul and England actor James Mason....
, and a surreal pirate-ship captain in Yellowbeard
Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard is a 1983 comedy film by Graham Chapman, along with Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna and David Sherlock. It was directed by Mel Damski....
. One of his last roles, that of corrupt lawyer James Concannon in The Verdict
The Verdict

The Verdict is a 1982 in film feature film which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck alcoholism lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the "right" thing....
, earned him his third and final Oscar nomination.

Mason was once considered to play James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 in a 1958 TV adaptation of From Russia with Love, which was ultimately never produced. Despite being in his fifties, he was still under consideration to play Bond in Dr. No
Dr. No

Dr. No is Ian Fleming's sixth James Bond novel, originally published on the 31 March 1958 in literature. This novel was inspired by Fleming's having read Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories at Eton College....
 before Sean Connery
Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scotland actor and film producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films....
 was cast. He was also approached to appear as Bond villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker
Moonraker (film)

Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
, however, he turned this down despite his renowned tendency to take any job offered him – which led to appearances in films such as The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, Bloodline
Bloodline (film)

Bloodline is a thriller film picture released in 1979 in film. Based upon the novel Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon, it was produced by Paramount Pictures and directed by Terence Young with music by Ennio Morricone....
 and Hunt the Man Down. His final screen-work was playing the lead role in Dr Fischer of Geneva (adapted from the Graham Greene
Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....
 novel of the same title) as the eccentric wealthy businessman who played games with the Swiss upper class, such as offering gifts to his guests on the proviso they accepted some humiliating ritual activity (such as wearing a child's bib at the dinner table).

Throughout his career, Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry and he is now regarded as one of the finest film actors of the 20th century.

In the late 1970s, Mason became a mentor to up-and-coming actor Sam Neill
Sam Neill

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of British Empire is a New Zealand actor.He has had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin , the executive officer, Capt 2nd Class Vasily Borodin...
.

Late in life, he served as narrator for a British television series on the films of Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
, Unknown Chaplin, which was aired in the U.S. on PBS and later issued on home video.

Private life

Mason was a devoted lover of animals, particularly cats. He and Pamela Kellino Mason co-authored the book The Cats in Our Lives, which was published in 1949. James Mason wrote most of the book and also illustrated it. In The Cats in Our Lives, he recounted humorous and sometimes touching tales of the cats (as well as a few dogs) he had known and loved.

Mason was married twice:

  • British-American actress Pamela Mason (née Ostrer) (1941–1965); one daughter, the late Portland Mason Schuyler (1948–2004), and one son, Morgan
    Morgan Mason

    Alexander Morgan Mason is an politician, film producer and actor. He was born in Beverly Hills, California and is the son of the late Academy Awards-nominated United Kingdom actor James Mason and his wife Pamela Mason, actress and commentator....
     (who is married to Belinda Carlisle
    Belinda Carlisle

    Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
    , the former lead singer of The Go-Go's
    The Go-Go's

    The Go-Go?s are an all-female American Pop music band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-women band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
    ). Portland Mason was named after Portland Hoffa
    Portland Hoffa

    Portland Hoffa , an United States of America comedienne, actor, and dancer, is remembered best as the stage and radio partner of her first husband, legendary humorist Fred Allen....
    , the wife of the American film comedian Fred Allen
    Fred Allen

    Fred Allen was an United States comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio....
    ; the Allens and the Masons were friends.
  • Australian actress Clarissa Kaye (1971-his death). Tobe Hooper's DVD commentary for Salem's Lot reveals that Mason regularly worked contractual clauses into his later work guaranteeing Kaye bit-parts on his film appearances.


Mason's autobiography, Before I Forget, was published in 1981.

Death

Mason survived a major heart attack
Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the Blood flow to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion of a coronary artery following the rupture of a Vulnerable plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids and white blood cells in the wall of an artery....
 in 1959 and died as a result of another on July 27, 1984 in Lausanne
Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French language-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva , and facing ?vian-les-Bains and with the Jura mountains to its north-west....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
. He was cremated, and (after a delay of 16 years) his ashes were buried in Corsier-sur-Vevey
Corsier-sur-Vevey

Corsier-sur-Vevey is a municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Vevey in the Cantons of Switzerland of Vaud in Switzerland. It hosts the headquarters of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles, the international governing body for amateur wrestling....
, Vaud
Vaud

The cantons of Switzerland of Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne....
, Switzerland. The remains of his old friend Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
 are in a tomb a few steps away. James Mason Court, a road in the Marsh
Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
 area of Huddersfield
Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town within the Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
, is named after him.

Filmography

  • Late Extra (1935)
  • Twice Branded (1936)
  • Troubled Waters (1936)
  • Secret of Stamboul (1936)
  • Prison Breaker (1936)
  • The High Command (1936)
  • Blind Man's Bluff
    Blind man's bluff

    Blind man's bluff can refer to:*Blind man's bluff , a children's game related to tag.*Blind man's bluff .*Blind Man's Bluff , a 1952 British film....
     (1936)
  • The Mill on the Floss
    The Mill on the Floss

    The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot , first published in three volumes in 1860....
     (1937)
  • Catch As Catch Can
    Catch As Catch Can

    Catch As Catch Can is the third studio album by Kim Wilde, released in 1983.Having toured the UK and Europe in November and December 1982, there was a silence of six months....
     (1937)
  • Fire Over England
    Fire Over England

    Fire Over England is a 1937 in film London Film Productions film drama, notable for providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh....
     (1937)
  • Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1937 UK thriller film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott and James Mason....
     (1937)
  • I Met a Murderer (1939)
  • The Patient Vanishes (1941)
  • Hatter's Castle
    Hatter's Castle (film)

    Hatter's Castle is a 1941 in film United Kingdom film adaptation of the 1931 novel by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility....
     (1941)
  • The Night Has Eyes (1942)
  • Alibi (1942)
  • Secret Mission (1942)
  • Thunder Rock (1943)
  • The Bells Go Down
    The Bells Go Down

    The Bells Go down is a black & white wartime film made by Ealing Studios in 1943 in film.It was produced by Michael Balcon and directed by Basil Dearden and was intended to give praise to the United Kingdom Auxiliary Fire Service ....
     (1943)
  • The Man in Grey
    The Man in Grey

    The Man in Grey is a 1943 in film English film melodrama made by Gainsborough Pictures, and is widely considered as the first of its "Gainsborough melodramas" ....
     (1943)
  • They Met in the Dark (1943)
  • Hotel Reserve (1944)
  • Fanny by Gaslight
    Fanny by Gaslight (film)

    Fanny by Gaslight was a 1944 in film film melodrama, produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a Fanny by Gaslight by Michael Sadleir ....
     (1944)
  • Candlelight in Algeria (1944)
  • A Place of One's Own
    A Place of One's Own

    A Place of One's Own is a Cinema of the United Kingdom film directed by Bernard Knowles. An atmospheric ghost story based on the novel by Osbert Sitwell, it stars James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price and Dulcie Gray....
     (1945)
  • They Were Sisters (1945)
  • The Wicked Lady
    The Wicked Lady

    The Wicked Lady was a 1945 in film film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who turns to robbery for enjoyment and to repay gambling debts....
     (1945)
  • The Seventh Veil
    The Seventh Veil

    The Seventh Veil is a 1945 in film United Kingdom melodrama film made by Sydney Box Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures....
     (1945)
  • Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out

    Odd Man Out is an Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green....
     (1947)
  • The Upturned Glass (1947)
  • Caught
    Caught (film)

    Caught is a Cinema of the United States drama film based on novel written by Libbie Block. Directed by Max Ophuls, it is considered his most-successful American work....
     (1949, by Max Ophüls
    Max Ophüls

    Max Oph?ls was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany, the United States, and France....
    )
  • Madame Bovary
    Madame Bovary (1949 film)

    Madame Bovary is a 1949 in film film adaptation of the classic Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones , James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin billed as Christopher Kent, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper....
     (1949)
  • The Reckless Moment
    The Reckless Moment

    The Reckless Moment is a melodrama film directed by Max Oph?ls, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by Columbia Pictures. Burnett Guffey served as the films cinematographer....
     (1949, by Max Ophüls
    Max Ophüls

    Max Oph?ls was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany, the United States, and France....
    )
  • East Side, West Side (1949)
  • One Way Street
    One Way Street

    One Way Street is a 1950 in film film directed by Hugo Fregonese. The black-and-white crime film, considered to be film noir, takes place in Mexico....
     (1950)
  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 in film drama film made by Romulus Films and released by MGM. It was directed by Albert Lewin and produced by Joe Kaufmann and Albert Lewin from his own screenplay, based on the legend of The Flying Dutchman....
     (1951)
  • The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel is a 1951 film with James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Also in the cast are Jessica Tandy and Leo G....
     (1951)
  • Lady Possessed (1952) (also producer and writer)
  • 5 Fingers
    5 Fingers

    5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 in film 20th Century Fox spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang ....
     (1952)
  • The Prisoner of Zenda
    The Prisoner of Zenda (1952 film)

    The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1952 in film film version of the The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope and a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda . This version was made by Loew's and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S....
     (1952)
  • Face to Face
    Face to Face (1952 film)

    Face to Face is a 1952 in film film adapted from the stories The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane....
     (1952)
  • Charade (1953) (1953) (also producer and writer)
  • The Story of Three Loves
    The Story of Three Loves

    The Story of Three Loves, also known as Equilibrium, is a 1953 in film romantic anthology film film made by MGM. It consists of three loosely linked separate stories, The Jealous Lover, Mademoiselle and Equilibrium....
     (1953)
  • Botany Bay
    Botany Bay (film)

    Botany Bay is a 1953 USA drama film directed by John Farrow and starring Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. It was based on a novel by James Norman Hall....
     (1953)
  • The Desert Rats
    The Desert Rats (film)

    The Desert Rats is a 1953 war film starring Richard Burton and Robert Douglas directed by Robert Wise. It features a cameo appearance by James Mason as General Erwin Rommel....
     (1953)
  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar (1953 film)

    Julius Caesar is an MGM film adaptation of the Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman....
     (1953, by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

    Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
    )
  • The Man Between
    The Man Between

    The Man Between is a 1953 UK thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef and Geoffrey Toone....
     (1953)
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
    The Tell-Tale Heart (film)

    The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 animated short film produced by United Productions of America, which retells the Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart of a man who is haunted by the beating heart of the man he has murdered....
     (1953) (animated short subject) (voice)
  • Prince Valiant
    Prince Valiant (1954 film)

    Prince Valiant is a 1954 in film adventure film in color and Cinemascope, based on the Prince Valiant by Hal Foster. A young man seeks to join the Knights of the Round Table in order to restore his father to his own kingship, and uncovers a plot against King Arthur....
     (1954)
  • A Star Is Born
    A Star Is Born (1954 film)

    A Star Is Born is a 1954 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Moss Hart is an adaptation of the A Star Is Born , which was based on a story by William A....
     (1954, by George Cukor
    George Cukor

    'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...
    )
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 in film film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax and Peter Lorre as Conseil....
     (1954)
  • Forever, Darling
    Forever, Darling

    Forever, Darling is a United States romantic comedy film with fantasy overtones, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason, and directed by Alexander Hall....
     (with Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball

    Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
     and Desi Arnaz
    Desi Arnaz

    Desi Arnaz was a Cuban musician, actor and television producer....
    ) (1956)
  • Bigger Than Life
    Bigger Than Life

    Bigger Than Life is an American film made in 1956 directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Mason, who also co-wrote and produced the film, about a school teacher and family man whose life spins out of control upon becoming addicted to cortisone....
     (1956, by Nicholas Ray
    Nicholas Ray

    Nicholas Ray was an United States film director....
    ) (also producer and writer)
  • Island in the Sun
    Island in the Sun (film)

    Island in the Sun is a 1957 film that stars an ensemble cast including James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie and Harry Belafonte....
     (1957)
  • Cry Terror! (1958)
  • The Decks Ran Red
    The Decks Ran Red

    The Decks Ran Red is a 1958 MGM sea-going suspense drama based on the book Infamy at Sea, and directed by Andrew L. Stone. The film received generally poor reviews, but received wide viewership for Dororthy Dandridge's role....
     (1958)
  • A Touch of Larceny
    A Touch of Larceny

    A Touch of Larceny is a 1960 in film British comedy film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Harry Andrews, Rachel Gurney, and John Le Mesurier....
     (1959)
  • North by Northwest
    North by Northwest

    North by Northwest is an Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G....
     (1959)
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)

    Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1959 adventure film adapted by Charles Brackett Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. It stars Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, Thayer David, Alan Napier, and Gertrude the Duck....
     (1959)
  • The Trials of Oscar Wilde
    The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation, The Green Carnation, and The Trial of Oscar Wilde is a 1960 in film British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry....
     (1960)
  • The Marriage-Go-Round
    The Marriage-Go-Round

    The Marriage-Go-Round is a 1958 play written by Leslie Stevens and a 1961 film adaptation also written and produced by Stevens. It was inspired by a suggestion that dancer Isadora Duncan supposedly made to playwright George Bernard Shaw: the two of them should have a child because "with your mind and my body, think what a person it would...
     (1961)
  • Escape from Zahrain (1962)
  • Lolita
    Lolita (1962 film)

    Lolita is an influential 1962 in film drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty....
     (1962)
  • Hero's Island (1962)
  • Tiara Tahiti
    Tiara Tahiti

    Tiara Tahiti is a 1962 drama-comedy film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring James Mason and John Mills. It is based on the novel by Geoffrey Cotterell, who also adapted it to screen together with Ivan Foxwell....
     (1962)
  • Torpedo Bay (1963)
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire
    The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)

    The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 in film English language epic film produced by Samuel Bronston Productions and The Rank Organisation, and released by Paramount Pictures....
     (1964)
  • The Pumpkin Eater
    The Pumpkin Eater

    The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 in film United Kingdom film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself with unfaithful husband number two and pregnant with child number six, unsure of where life is taking her....
     (1964)
  • Lord Jim
    Lord Jim (1965 film)

    Lord Jim is a 1965 in film adventure film made by Columbia Pictures. It was produced and directed by Richard Brooks with Jules Buck and Peter O'Toole as associate producers, from a screenplay by Brooks, based on the 1900 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad....
     (1965)
  • Genghis Khan
    Genghis Khan (1965 film)

    Genghis Khan is among the most famous film versions depicting the life and conquests of the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan. It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1965 in film by Columbia Pictures, and was directed by Henry Levin, and starred Omar Sharif, who that same year starred in another epic, Doctor Zhivago ...
     (1965)
  • The Uninhibited
    The Uninhibited

    The Uninhibited is a 1965 in film cinema of Spain film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and starring Melina Mercouri, James Mason and Hardy Kruger....
     (1965)
  • The Blue Max
    The Blue Max

    The Blue Max is a United Kingdom film about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I. It was directed by John Guillermin, stars George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress, and features Karl Michael Vogler and Jeremy Kemp....
     (1966)
  • Georgy Girl
    Georgy Girl

    Georgy Girl is a 1966 in film British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. The film was directed by Silvio Narizzano and starred Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling and Bill Owen ....
     (1966)
  • The Deadly Affair
    The Deadly Affair

    The Deadly Affair is a 1966 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom spy film-thriller film, based on the story, Call for the Dead, by John le Carr?....
     (1966)
  • The London Nobody Knows (1967) (documentary) (narrator)
  • Stranger in the House
    Stranger in the House

    Stranger In The House is the title of two horror films, one released in 1967 in film and the other in 1997 in film....
     (1967)
  • The Legend og Silent Night (1967) (For ABC Television Network)
  • Vienna: The Years Remembered (1968) (short subject)
  • Duffy
    Duffy (film)

    Duffy is a 1968 in film Anglo-American comedy film directed by Robert Parrish and starring James Coburn, James Mason, Susannah York and James Fox....
     (1968)
  • Mayerling (1968)
  • The Sea Gull
    The Sea Gull

    The Sea Gull is a 1968 Great Britain/United States drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted from Anton Chekov's classic 1896 play The Seagull....
     (1968, by Sidney Lumet
    Sidney Lumet

    Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
    )
  • Age of Consent
    Age of Consent (film)

    Age of Consent is an Cinema of Australia which was the penultimate feature film directed by United Kingdom director Michael Powell . The romance film comedy-drama film stars James Mason, who also co-produced it with Powell, Helen Mirren, in her first major film role, and veteran Irish character actor Jack MacGowran....
     (1969)
  • The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
  • Spring and Port Wine
    Spring and Port Wine

    Spring and Port Wine is a 1967 Play by Bill Naughton. It became a film in 1970.The story is set in the Northern England town of Bolton, and concerns the Crompton family, and in particular the father, Rafe Crompton, and his attempts to assert his authority in the household as his children grow up....
     (1970)
  • Cold Sweat
    Cold Sweat (1970 film)

    Cold Sweat is a 1970 film starring Charles Bronson...
     (1970)
  • Bad Man's River
    Bad Man's River

    Bad Man's River is a 1971 Comedy Western film directed by Eugenio Mart?n and starring Lee Van Cleef, James Mason, Gina Lollobrigida and Sim?n Andreu....
     (1971)
  • Kill!
    Kill!

    is a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, written by Akira Murao, Kihachi Okamoto, and Shugoro Yamamoto and starring Tatsuya Nakadai....
     (1971)
  • Child's Play
    Child's Play (1972 film)

    Child's Play is a 1972 United States drama film-mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Leon Prochnik is based on the Child's Play by Robert Marasco....
     (1972)
  • Frankenstein: The True Story
    Frankenstein: The True Story

    Frankenstein: The True Story is a 1973 United Kingdom television movie horror film based on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It was directed by Jack Smight, and the screenplay was co-written by novelist Christopher Isherwood....
      (1973 TV mini-series)
  • The Last of Sheila
    The Last of Sheila

    The Last of Sheila is a 1973 mystery film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, and starring Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, James Mason, Ian McShane, Joan Hackett, and Raquel Welch....
     (1973)
  • The Mackintosh Man
    The Mackintosh Man

    The MacKintosh Man is a 1973 in film cold war Spy film made by the Newman-Foreman Company and Warner Bros.. It was directed by John Huston and produced by John Foreman and William Hill as associate producer from a screenplay by Walter Hill and William Fairchild based on the novel The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley....
     (1973)
  • The Marseille Contract
    The Marseille Contract

    The Marseille Contract is a 1974 in film British thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and scored by Roy Budd. It starred Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn and James Mason....
     (1974)
  • 11 Harrowhouse
    11 Harrowhouse

    11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 in film film directed by Aram Avakian. It was adapted by Charles Grodin based upon the novel by Gerald A. Browne with the screenplay by Jeffrey Bloom....
     (1974)
  • The Year of the Wildebeest (1975) (documentary) (narrator)
  • The Left Hand of the Law
    The Left Hand of the Law

    The Left Hand of the Law is a 1975 in film Cinema of Italy action film written and directed by Giuseppe Rosati and starring United Kingdom actor James Mason....
     (1975)
  • The Flower in His Mouth
    The Flower in His Mouth

    The Flower in His Mouth is a 1975 in film drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Jennifer O'Neill. ...
     (1975)
  • Mandingo
    Mandingo (film)

    Mandingo is a 1975 in film, based on the book Mandingo by Kyle Onstott. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and featured James Mason, Susan George , Perry King, Lillian Hayman, boxing-turned-actor Ken Norton and bodybuilder and pro wrestling-turned-actor Earl Maynard....
     (1975)
  • Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
  • Autobiography of a Princess
    Autobiography of a Princess

    Autobiography of a Princess is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions , starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey....
     (1975, by James Ivory
    James Ivory (director)

    James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
    )
  • Inside Out (1975)
  • Hot Stuff
    Hot Stuff

    Hot Stuff may refer to:* Hot Stuff the Little Devil, the Harvey Comics character* "Hot Stuff ", a 2007 single by UK R&B singer Craig David, from his Trust Me album...
     (1976)
  • People of the Wind
    People of the Wind

    People of the Wind is a 1976 in film documentary film produced by Anthony Howarth and David Koff. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Documentary Feature. ...
     (1976) (documentary) (narrator)
  • Voyage of the Damned
    Voyage of the Damned

    Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 in film film drama and of its 1974 in literature source book, written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts....
     (1976)
  • Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
  • Cross of Iron
    Cross of Iron

    Cross of Iron is a 1977 in film war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, and David Warner ....
     (1977)
  • Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
    Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love

    Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love is a 1977 in film cinema of Canada documentary film directed by Harry Rasky. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Documentary Feature. ...
     (1977) (documentary) (narrator in English version)
  • The Water Babies
    The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

    File:Water Babies.jpgThe Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863....
     (1978) (voice)
  • Heaven Can Wait
    Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

    Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....
     (1978)
  • The Boys from Brazil
    The Boys from Brazil (film)

    The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 in film Academy Award-nominated Thriller made by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox....
     (1978)
  • Murder by Decree
    Murder by Decree

    Murder by Decree is a 1979 in film Anglo-Canadian film involving Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper....
     (1979)
  • The Passage
    The Passage (film)

    The Passage is a 1979 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom action film-war film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Christopher Lee and Malcolm McDowell....
     (1979)
  • Bloodline
    Bloodline (film)

    Bloodline is a thriller film picture released in 1979 in film. Based upon the novel Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon, it was produced by Paramount Pictures and directed by Terence Young with music by Ennio Morricone....
     (1979)
  • Salem's Lot
    Salem's Lot (1979 TV mini-series)

    Salem's Lot is a 1979 Horror fiction television mini-series directed by Tobe Hooper, from the Paul Monash teleplay, and starred former Starsky & Hutch actor David Soul and England actor James Mason....
     (1979) (for American TV)
  • North Sea Hijack
    North Sea Hijack

    North Sea Hijack , also released under the alternate titles ffolkes and Assault Force, is an action movie starring Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, and Michael Parks....
     (1980)
  • A Dangerous Summer
    A Dangerous Summer

    A Dangerous Summer is a 1981 in film Australian crime film drama film directed by Quentin Masters and starring Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, Guy Doleman and John Mason....
     (1981)
  • Ivanhoe
    Ivanhoe (1982 film)

    Ivanhoe is a 1982 in film Television movie adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. The film was directed by Douglas Camfield and screenplay written by John Gay....
     (1982)
  • Evil Under the Sun
    Evil Under the Sun (1982 film)

    Evil Under the Sun is a 1982 in film United Kingdom mystery film, based on the 1941 Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie....
     (1982)
  • The Verdict
    The Verdict

    The Verdict is a 1982 in film feature film which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck alcoholism lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the "right" thing....
     (1982)
  • Group Madness (1983) (documentary)
  • Alexandre (1983)
  • Yellowbeard
    Yellowbeard

    Yellowbeard is a 1983 comedy film by Graham Chapman, along with Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna and David Sherlock. It was directed by Mel Damski....
     (1983)
  • Don't Eat the Pictures (1983)
  • The Shooting Party
    The Shooting Party

    The Shooting Party is a 1985 in film film directed by Alan Bridges and based on a book by Isabel Colegate that won the 1981 WH Smith Literary Award....
     (1984, by Alan Bridges)
  • The Assisi Underground (1984)
  • A.D. (1985) (TV mini-series)
  • Dr Fischer of Geneva (1985) (TV film)


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