James Mason

James Neville Mason, known as James Mason, was an accomplished English actor who made a significant impact on both British and American cinema. He was born on May 15, 1909, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, and passed away on July 27, 1984, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mason's acting career began in the 1930s, where he initially gained recognition for his stage performances in London's West End. He made his film debut in 1935 with the British film "Late Extra," marking the start of his illustrious on-screen journey. Throughout his career, Mason showcased his exceptional acting abilities, often portraying complex and morally ambiguous characters. His commanding presence, distinctive voice, and versatile range allowed him to effortlessly transition between genres, from dramas to thrillers and even period pieces. One of Mason's most acclaimed performances came in 1945 when he starred as the troubled and enigmatic Johnny McQueen in the film "Odd Man Out." His portrayal of the wounded Irish nationalist earned him widespread praise and established him as a respected leading man. Mason's notable filmography includes memorable roles in films such as "The Wicked Lady" (1945), "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" (1951), "A Star Is Born" (1954), "North by Northwest" (1959), and "Lolita" (1962). His ability to bring depth, sophistication, and complexity to his characters captivated audiences and garnered critical acclaim. Beyond his film career, Mason also dabbled in producing and directing. He co-produced and starred in the acclaimed film "A Star Is Born," showcasing his multifaceted talent and creative vision. Throughout his life, Mason was recognized with numerous awards and nominations, including three Academy Award nominations for Best Actor. He was highly regarded by his peers and critics alike for his impeccable craft and his ability to elevate any production he was a part of.

Known For: Acting

Born: Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK, 1909-05-15

Died: 1984-07-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	Late Extra	Jim Martin	56
2	1936	Troubled Waters	John Merriman	0
3	1936	Prison Breaker	'Bunny' Barnes	0
4	1936	Blind Man's Bluff	Stephen Neville	0
5	1936	Twice Branded	Henry Hamilton	60
6	1936	Secret of Stamboul	Larry	60
7	1937	The Mill on the Floss	Tom Tulliver	40
8	1937	Fire Over England	Hillary Vane	60
9	1937	Catch as Catch Can	Robert Leyland	0
10	1937	The High Command	Capt. Heverell	56
11	1937	Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Jean Tallien	42
12	1938	Cyrano de Bergerac	Christian de Neuvillette	0
13	1938	The Moon in the Yellow River	Darrell Blake	0
14	1939	Bees on the Boat-Deck	Robert Patch	0
15	1939	I Met a Murderer	Mark Warrow	47
16	1939	The Miser	Valere - In love with Elise	0
17	1939	The Circle	Edward Luton	0
18	1941	The Patient Vanishes	Mick Cardby	0
19	1942	Hatter's Castle	Dr. Renwick	59
20	1942	The Night Has Eyes	Stephen Deremid	65
21	1942	Alibi	Andre Laurent	60
22	1942	Secret Mission	Raoul de Carnot	43
23	1942	Thunder Rock	Streeter	63
24	1943	The Bells Go Down	Ted Robbins	72
25	1943	The Man in Grey	Lord Rohan	60
26	1943	They Met in the Dark	Richard Francis Heritage	63
27	1944	Candlelight in Algeria	Alan Thurston	57
28	1944	Fanny by Gaslight	Lord Manderstoke	57
29	1944	Hotel Reserve	Peter Vadassy	65
30	1945	A Place of One's Own	Henry Smedhurst	56
31	1945	They Were Sisters	Geoffrey Lee	56
32	1945	The Seventh Veil	Nicholas Cunningham	64
33	1945	The Wicked Lady	Captain Jerry Jackson	64
34	1947	Odd Man Out	Johnny McQueen	73
35	1947	The Upturned Glass	Michael Joyce	68
36	1949	Caught	Larry Quinada	66
37	1949	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	68
38	1949	The Reckless Moment	Martin Donnelly	68
39	1949	East Side, West Side	Brandon Bourne	70
40	1950	One Way Street	Dr. Frank Matson	52
41	1951	Pandora and the Flying Dutchman	Hendrik van der Zee	66
42	1951	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Field Marshal Erwin Rommel	67
43	1952	Lady Possessed	Jimmy Del Palma	51
44	1952	5 Fingers	Ulysses Diello	76
45	1952	Ellis in Freedomland	The Refrigerator (voice)	0
46	1952	Face to Face	The Captain	57
47	1952	The Prisoner of Zenda	Rupert of Hentzau	68
48	1952	Botany Bay	Capt. Paul Gilbert	65
49	1953	The Story of Three Loves	Charles Coutray	56
50	1953	The Desert Rats	Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel	63
51	1953	Julius Caesar	Brutus	71
52	1953	Charade	The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson	55
53	1953	The Man Between	Ivo Kern	71
54	1953	The Tell-Tale Heart	Narrator	73
55	1954	Prince Valiant	Sir Brack	59
56	1954	A Star Is Born	Norman Maine	71
57	1954	The Star of Bethlehem	Himself	0
58	1954	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Captain Nemo	70
59	1956	Forever, Darling	The Guardian Angel	70
60	1956	Bigger Than Life	Ed Avery	71
61	1957	Island in the Sun	Maxwell Fleury	67
62	1958	Cry Terror!	Jim Molner	62
63	1958	The Decks Ran Red	Capt. Edwin Rummill	64
64	1959	North by Northwest	Phillip Vandamm	80
65	1959	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook	69
66	1960	A Touch of Larceny	Cmdr. Max Easton	58
67	1960	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	Edward Carson	64
68	1960	John Brown's Raid	John Brown	0
69	1961	The Marriage-Go-Round	Paul Delville	42
70	1962	Theatre 62: Rebecca	Maxim de Winter	0
71	1962	Escape from Zahrain	Johnson	62
72	1962	Lolita	Prof. Humbert Humbert	73
73	1962	Tiara Tahiti	Captain Brett Aimsley	56
74	1962	Hero's Island	Jacob Weber	48
75	1963	Torpedo Bay	Captain Blayne	0
76	1964	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Timonides	65
77	1964	The Pumpkin Eater	Bob Conway	67
78	1965	Lord Jim	Gentleman Brown	68
79	1965	Genghis Khan	Kam Ling	59
80	1965	The Uninhibited	Pascal Regnier	58
81	1965	Uncertain Verification	(archive footage)	66
82	1966	The Blue Max	General Count von Klugermann	68
83	1966	Georgy Girl	James Leamington	63
84	1967	The Deadly Affair	Charles Dobbs	62
85	1967	Cop-Out	John Sawyer	53
86	1968	Duffy	Charles Calvert	60
87	1968	Mayerling	Franz Joseph I of Austria	62
88	1968	The London Nobody Knows	Himself - Narrator	63
89	1968	The Sea Gull	Trigorin	62
90	1969	Age of Consent	Bradley Morahan	60
91	1970	The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go	Y.Y. Go	46
92	1970	Spring and Port Wine	Rafe Crompton	56
93	1970	Cold Sweat	Captain Ross	57
94	1971	The Search for the Nile	Narrator	0
95	1971	Bad Man's River	Francisco Paco Montero	45
96	1971	Kill!	Alan Hamilton	63
97	1972	The Wind in the Wires	Narrator	0
98	1972	Home, James	Self	65
99	1972	Child's Play	Jerome Malley	60
100	1973	John Keats: His Life and Death	Narrator	0
101	1973	The Reformation: Age of Revolt	Narrator	0
102	1973	The Last of Sheila	Philip	70
103	1973	The MacKintosh Man	Sir George Wheeler	60
104	1974	Great Expectations	Magwitch	62
105	1974	The Marseille Contract	Jacques Brizard	59
106	1974	Frankenstein: The True Story	Dr. John Polidori	75
107	1974	11 Harrowhouse	Charles D. Watts	57
108	1975	Mandingo	Warren Maxwell	67
109	1975	Kidnap Syndicate	Filippini	67
110	1975	The Left Hand of the Law	Senatore Leandri	60
111	1975	Autobiography of a Princess	Cyril Sahib	50
112	1975	Inside Out	Ernst Furben	65
113	1975	The Flower in His Mouth	Avv. Antonio Bellocampo	65
114	1976	Fear in the City	Prosecutor	51
115	1976	People of the Wind	Jafar Qoli (voice)	50
116	1976	Voyage of the Damned	Dr. Juan Remos	59
117	1977	Cross of Iron	Oberst Brandt	71
118	1977	Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love	Narrator - English version	50
119	1978	The Water Babies	Mr. Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark	59
120	1978	Heaven Can Wait	Mr. Jordan	66
121	1978	The Boys from Brazil	Eduard Seibert	67
122	1979	Murder by Decree	Dr. Watson	64
123	1979	The Passage	Professor Bergson	62
124	1979	Bloodline	Sir Alec Nichols	49
125	1980	North Sea Hijack	Admiral Brindsen	62
126	1981	The Search for Alexander the Great	Narrator	0
127	1982	The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'	Self / Odell Gardener	85
128	1982	Ivanhoe	Isaac of York	63
129	1982	Evil Under the Sun	Odell Gardener	69
130	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
131	1982	The Glory of the Garden	Narrator	0
132	1982	A Dangerous Summer	George Engels	40
133	1982	The Verdict	Ed Concannon	74
134	1983	Alexandre	The Father	60
135	1983	The Popes and Their Art	Presentor	0
136	1983	Group Madness	Self	0
137	1983	Yellowbeard	Captain Hughes	55
138	1983	Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art	Demon	65
139	1984	James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate	Self	0
140	1984	Dr. Fischer of Geneva	Dr. Fischer	56
141	1985	The Shooting Party	Sir Randolph Nettleby	66
142	1985	The Assisi Underground	Bishop Nicolini	52
143	1995	Roger Moore: A Matter of Class	Self (archive footage)	60
144	2000	Sir John Mills' Moving Memories	Self (archive footage)	0
145	2009	Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical	Self (archive)	0
146	2011	Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War	Self (archive footage)	0
147	2012	Lasseter's Bones	Archival Footage	64
148	2019	Sid & Judy	Self (archive footage)	74

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	69
4	1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self	70
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Self - Host	63
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Captain Vialez	73
7	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Self - Host	73
8	1953	General Electric Theater	Wayne Sebastian	63
9	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Guest	56
10	1957	Panic!		0
11	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
12	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Henry Chambers	63
13	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Maxwell Becker	55
14	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
15	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Warren Barrow	78
16	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
17	1962	Stoney Burke	The Derelict	57
18	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
19	1966	ABC Stage 67	Otto Hoffman	62
20	1967	The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour	Self	69
21	1967	Apropos Film	Self	60
22	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
23	1971	The Search for the Nile	Narrator	60
24	1971	Appointment With Destiny	Narrator	0
25	1973	Frankenstein: The True Story	Dr. John Polidori	85
26	1976	Origins of the Mafia	Vianisi	0
27	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Joseph of Arimathea	78
28	1979	Salem's Lot	Richard K. Straker	68
29	1980	Hollywood	Self - Narrator	83
30	1983	Unknown Chaplin	Narrator (voice)	80
31	1984	George Washington	Gen. Edward Braddock	74
32	1985	A.D.	Tiberius	51
33	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50

James Mason

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