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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 15, 1909
Died
July 27, 1984
Place of Birth
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Джеймс Мейсон
- James Neville Mason
- Джеймс Невилл Мэйсон
- Джеймс Мэйсон
- جیمز میسون
James Mason
1.6 Popularity
Biography
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
7.4
Self (archive footage)
Sid & Judy
2019
5.8
Self (archive footage)
Talking Pictures
2013
6.4
Archival Footage
Lasseter's Bones
2012
0.0
Self (archive)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
5.2
Bishop Nicolini
The Assisi Underground
1985
5.1
Tiberius
A.D.
1985
6.5
Sir Randolph Nettleby
The Shooting Party
1985
5.6
Dr. Fischer
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984
Credits
Sid & Judy
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.4
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.8
Lasseter's Bones
as Archival Footage
2012
6.4
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
as Self (archive)
2009
0.0
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self (archive footage)
1995
6.0
The Assisi Underground
as Bishop Nicolini
1985
5.2
A.D.
as Tiberius
1985
5.1
The Shooting Party
as Sir Randolph Nettleby
1985
6.5
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Dr. Fischer
1984
5.6
George Washington
as Gen. Edward Braddock
1984
7.4
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self
1984
0.0
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
as Demon
1983
6.5
Yellowbeard
as Captain Hughes
1983
5.6
Group Madness
as Self
1983
0.0
Unknown Chaplin
as Narrator (voice)
1983
8.2
The Popes and Their Art
as Presentor
1983
0.0
Alexandre
as The Father
1983
6.0
The Verdict
as Ed Concannon
1982
7.4
A Dangerous Summer
as George Engels
1982
3.7
The Glory of the Garden
as Narrator
1982
0.0
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Evil Under the Sun
as Odell Gardener
1982
6.9
Ivanhoe
as Isaac of York
1982
6.3
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Odell Gardener
1982
8.5
The Search for Alexander the Great
as Narrator
1981
5.0
North Sea Hijack
as Admiral Brindsen
1980
6.3
Hollywood
as Self - Narrator
1980
8.3
Salem's Lot
as Richard K. Straker
1979
6.8
Bloodline
as Sir Alec Nichols
1979
4.9
The Passage
as Professor Bergson
1979
6.1
Murder by Decree
as Dr. Watson
1979
6.4
The Boys from Brazil
as Eduard Seibert
1978
6.7
Heaven Can Wait
as Mr. Jordan
1978
6.6
The Water Babies
as Mr. Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark
1978
6.0
Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
as Narrator - English version
1977
5.0
Jesus of Nazareth
as Joseph of Arimathea
1977
7.8
Cross of Iron
as Oberst Brandt
1977
7.1
Voyage of the Damned
as Dr. Juan Remos
1976
6.0
Origins of the Mafia
as Vianisi
1976
0.0
People of the Wind
as Jafar Qoli (voice)
1976
5.0
Fear in the City
as Chief of Police
1976
5.0
The Flower in His Mouth
as Avv. Antonio Bellocampo
1975
6.2
Inside Out
as Ernst Furben
1975
6.5
Autobiography of a Princess
as Cyril Sahib
1975
5.1
The Left Hand of the Law
as Senatore Leandri
1975
6.0
Kidnap Syndicate
as Filippini
1975
6.6
Mandingo
as Warren Maxwell
1975
6.6
11 Harrowhouse
as Charles D. Watts
1974
5.6
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Dr. John Polidori
1974
7.3
The Marseille Contract
as Jacques Brizard
1974
5.9
Great Expectations
as Magwitch
1974
6.2
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Dr. John Polidori
1973
8.5
The MacKintosh Man
as Sir George Wheeler
1973
6.1
The Last of Sheila
as Philip Dexter
1973
7.0
The Reformation: Age of Revolt
as Narrator
1973
0.0
John Keats: His Life and Death
as Narrator
1973
0.0
Child's Play
as Jerome Malley
1972
6.0
Home, James
as Self
1972
6.5
The Wind in the Wires
as Narrator
1972
0.0
Kill!
as Alan Hamilton
1971
6.0
🎬
Appointment With Destiny
as Narrator
1971
0.0
Bad Man's River
as Francisco Paco Montero
1971
4.5
The Search for the Nile
as Narrator
1971
6.0
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Cold Sweat
as Captain Ross
1970
5.7
Spring and Port Wine
as Rafe Crompton
1970
5.6
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
as Y.Y. Go
1970
4.2
Age of Consent
as Bradley Morahan
1969
5.9
The Sea Gull
as Trigorin
1968
6.2
The London Nobody Knows
as Himself - Narrator
1968
6.3
Mayerling
as Franz Joseph I of Austria
1968
6.2
Duffy
as Charles Calvert
1968
6.1
🎬
Apropos Film
as Self
1967
6.0
Stranger in the House
as John Sawyer
1967
5.2
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self
1967
6.9
The Deadly Affair
as Charles Dobbs
1967
6.2
ABC Stage 67
as Otto Hoffman
1966
6.2
Georgy Girl
as James Leamington
1966
6.2
The Blue Max
as General Count von Klugermann
1966
6.8
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
1965
6.6
The Uninhibited
as Pascal Regnier
1965
5.8
Genghis Khan
as Kam Ling
1965
5.8
Lord Jim
as Gentleman Brown
1965
6.8
The Pumpkin Eater
as Bob Conway
1964
6.6
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Timonides
1964
6.5
Torpedo Bay
as Captain Blayne
1963
0.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Stoney Burke
as The Derelict
1962
5.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Warren Barrow
1962
7.8
Hero's Island
as Jacob Weber
1962
4.8
Tiara Tahiti
as Captain Brett Aimsley
1962
6.0
Lolita
as Prof. Humbert Humbert
1962
7.3
Escape from Zahrain
as Johnson
1962
6.2
Theatre 62: Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter
1962
0.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Maxwell Becker
1961
5.5
The Marriage-Go-Round
as Paul Delville
1961
3.8
John Brown's Raid
as John Brown
1960
0.0
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Edward Carson
1960
6.2
The Hiding Place
as Hans Frick
1960
0.0
A Touch of Larceny
as Cmdr. Max Easton
1960
5.9
Journey to the Center of the Earth
as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook
1959
6.9
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Henry Chambers
1959
6.3
North by Northwest
as Phillip Vandamm
1959
8.0
The Decks Ran Red
as Capt. Edwin Rummill
1958
6.3
Cry Terror!
as Jim Molner
1958
6.3
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Island in the Sun
as Maxwell Fleury
1957
6.6
Panic!
1957
0.0
Bigger Than Life
as Ed Avery
1956
7.2
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest
1956
5.6
Forever, Darling
as The Guardian Angel
1956
7.0
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Captain Nemo
1954
7.1
The Star of Bethlehem
as Himself
1954
0.0
A Star Is Born
as Norman Maine
1954
7.1
Prince Valiant
as Sir Brack
1954
6.0
The Tell-Tale Heart
as Narrator
1953
7.3
The Man Between
as Ivo Kern
1953
7.1
Charade
as The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson
1953
5.5
Julius Caesar
as Brutus
1953
7.1
The Story of Three Loves
as Charles Coutray
1953
5.8
The Desert Rats
as Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel
1953
6.3
General Electric Theater
as Wayne Sebastian
1953
6.4
Botany Bay
as Capt. Paul Gilbert
1952
6.6
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rupert of Hentzau
1952
6.8
Face to Face
as The Captain
1952
5.7
Ellis in Freedomland
as The Refrigerator (voice)
1952
0.0
5 Fingers
as Ulysses Diello
1952
7.5
Lady Possessed
as Jimmy Del Palma
1952
5.1
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
1951
6.7
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Captain Vialez
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Self - Host
1951
7.2
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
as Hendrik van der Zee
1951
6.6
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Self - Host
1950
6.3
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
One Way Street
as Dr. Frank Matson
1950
5.2
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
East Side, West Side
as Brandon Bourne
1949
6.9
The Reckless Moment
as Martin Donnelly
1949
6.7
Madame Bovary
as Gustave Flaubert
1949
6.7
Caught
as Larry Quinada
1949
6.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
The Upturned Glass
as Michael Joyce
1947
6.9
Odd Man Out
as Johnny McQueen
1947
7.3
The Wicked Lady
as Captain Jerry Jackson
1945
6.3
The Seventh Veil
as Nicholas Cunningham
1945
6.5
They Were Sisters
as Geoffrey Lee
1945
5.1
A Place of One's Own
as Henry Smedhurst
1945
5.6
Hotel Reserve
as Peter Vadassy
1944
6.5
Fanny by Gaslight
as Lord Manderstoke
1944
5.2
Candlelight in Algeria
as Alan Thurston
1944
5.7
They Met in the Dark
as Richard Francis Heritage
1943
6.3
The Man in Grey
as Lord Rohan
1943
5.9
The Bells Go Down
as Ted Robbins
1943
7.1
Thunder Rock
as Streeter
1942
6.2
Secret Mission
as Raoul de Carnot
1942
4.3
Alibi
as Andre Laurent
1942
6.0
The Night Has Eyes
as Stephen Deremid
1942
6.4
Hatter's Castle
as Dr. Renwick
1942
5.5
The Patient Vanishes
as Mick Cardby
1941
0.0
🎬
The Circle
as Edward Luton
1939
0.0
The Miser
as Valere - In love with Elise
1939
0.0
I Met a Murderer
as Mark Warrow
1939
4.7
🎬
Bees on the Boat-Deck
as Robert Patch
1939
0.0
🎬
The Moon in the Yellow River
as Darrell Blake
1938
0.0
🎬
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Christian de Neuvillette
1938
0.0
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Jean Tallien
1937
4.1
The High Command
as Capt. Heverell
1937
5.6
🎬
Catch as Catch Can
as Robert Leyland
1937
0.0
Fire Over England
as Hillary Vane
1937
6.2
The Mill on the Floss
as Tom Tulliver
1937
4.0
The Secret of Stamboul
as Larry
1936
6.0
Twice Branded
as Henry Hamilton
1936
6.0
🎬
Blind Man's Bluff
as Stephen Neville
1936
0.0
Prison Breaker
as 'Bunny' Barnes
1936
0.0
🎬
Troubled Waters
as John Merriman
1936
0.0
Late Extra
as Jim Martin
1935
5.6