James Mason
Biography
James Neville Mason (known as James Mason; May 15, 1909 – July 27, 1984) was an English actor who made a significant impact on both British and American cinema. His 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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
What's My Line?
1950
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Dr. Kildare
1961
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Bob Hope Show
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Film '72
1971
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self · 1961
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self · 1962
What's My Line?
as Self · 1950
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Warren Barrow · 1962
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Maxwell Becker · 1961
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self · 1957
The Bob Hope Show
as Self · 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self · 1948
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest · 1956
Film '72
as Self · 1971
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Henry Chambers · 1959
Lux Video Theatre
as Self - Host · 1950
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self · 1971
Stoney Burke
as The Derelict · 1962
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self · 1967
ABC Stage 67
as Otto Hoffman · 1966
Salem's Lot
as Richard K. Straker · 1979
Jesus of Nazareth
as Joseph of Arimathea · 1977
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage) · 2013
North by Northwest
as Phillip Vandamm · 1959
Panic!
· 1957
Lolita
as Prof. Humbert Humbert · 1962
Evil Under the Sun
as Odell Gardener · 1982
A.D.
as Tiberius · 1985
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as Captain Nemo · 1954
Hollywood
as Self - Narrator · 1980
Origins of the Mafia
as Vianisi · 1976
Kubrick by Kubrick
as Self (archive footage) · 2020
Journey to the Center of the Earth
as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook · 1959
Cross of Iron
as Oberst Brandt · 1977
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Timonides · 1964
General Electric Theater
as Wayne Sebastian · 1953
A Star Is Born
as Norman Maine · 1954
The Verdict
as Ed Concannon · 1982
The Boys from Brazil
as Eduard Seibert · 1978
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Captain Vialez · 1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Self - Host · 1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel · 1951
Julius Caesar
as Brutus · 1953
Heaven Can Wait
as Mr. Jordan · 1978
George Washington
as Gen. Edward Braddock · 1984
Unknown Chaplin
as Narrator (voice) · 1983
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Dr. John Polidori · 1973
Mandingo
as Warren Maxwell · 1975
Voyage of the Damned
as Dr. Juan Remos · 1976
Cold Sweat
as Captain Ross · 1970
Lord Jim
as Gentleman Brown · 1965
Yellowbeard
as Captain Hughes · 1983
The Story of Three Loves
as Charles Coutray · 1953
The Last of Sheila
as Philip Dexter · 1973
The Desert Rats
as Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel · 1953
North Sea Hijack
as Admiral Brindsen · 1980
Mayerling
as Franz Joseph I of Austria · 1968
Madame Bovary
as Gustave Flaubert · 1949
The Blue Max
as General Count von Klugermann · 1966
The Pumpkin Eater
as Bob Conway · 1964
Murder by Decree
as Dr. Watson · 1979
Appointment With Destiny
as Narrator · 1971
Caught
as Larry Quinada · 1949
Bad Man's River
as Francisco Paco Montero · 1971
Prince Valiant
as Sir Brack · 1954
Age of Consent
as Bradley Morahan · 1969
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
as Hendrick van der Zee · 1951
Island in the Sun
as Maxwell Fleury · 1957
The MacKintosh Man
as Sir George Wheeler · 1973
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Edward Carson · 1960
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rupert of Hentzau · 1952
The Man in Grey
as Lord Rohan · 1943
5 Fingers
as Ulysses Diello · 1952
Ivanhoe
as Isaac of York · 1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self · 1982
The Deadly Affair
as Charles Dobbs · 1967
Frankenstein: The True Story
as Dr. John Polidori · 1974
The Reckless Moment
as Martin Donnelly · 1949
Genghis Khan
as Kam Ling · 1965
The Circle
as Edward Luton · 1939
East Side, West Side
as Brandon Bourne · 1949
Kill!
as Alan Hamilton · 1971
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage) · 1976
The Passage
as Professor Bergson · 1979
Apropos Film
as Self · 1967
Bigger Than Life
as Ed Avery · 1956
John Brown's Raid
as John Brown · 1960
The Man Between
as Ivo Kern · 1953
Georgy Girl
as James Leamington · 1966
The Decks Ran Red
as Capt. Edwin Rummill · 1958
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self (archive footage) · 1995
The Water Babies
as Mr. Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark · 1978
Hotel Reserve
as Peter Vadassy · 1944
Lady Possessed
as Jimmy Del Palma · 1952
A Touch of Larceny
as Cmdr. Max Easton · 1960
Great Expectations
as Magwitch · 1974
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
as Self (archive footage) · 2019
Fire Over England
as Hillary Vane · 1937
Kidnap Syndicate
as Filippini · 1975
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
as Hans Frick · 1960
Charade
as The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson · 1953
Duffy
as Charles Calvert · 1968
Odd Man Out
as Johnny McQueen · 1947
Bloodline
as Sir Alec Nichols · 1979
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
as Y.Y. Go · 1974
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
as Self (archive) · 2009
Tiara Tahiti
as Captain Brett Aimsley · 1962
The Marseille Contract
as Jacques Brizard · 1974
One Way Street
as Dr. Frank Matson · 1950
Stranger in the House
as John Sawyer · 1967
The Marriage-Go-Round
as Paul Delville · 1961
The Miser
as Valere - In love with Elise · 1939
The Tell-Tale Heart
as Narrator · 1953
John Keats: His Life and Death
as Narrator · 1973
Autobiography of a Princess
as Cyril Sahib · 1975
11 Harrowhouse
as Charles D. Watts · 1974
Spring and Port Wine
as Rafe Crompton · 1970
Secret Mission
as Raoul de Carnot · 1942
The Secret of Stamboul
as Larry · 1936
The Left Hand of the Law
as Senatore Leandri · 1975
The Search for the Nile
as Narrator · 1971
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage) · 2000
The Sea Gull
as Trigorin · 1968
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
as Demon · 1983
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Odell Gardener · 1982
The Night Has Eyes
as Stephen Deremid · 1942
Child's Play
as Jerome Malley · 1972
Fanny by Gaslight
as Lord Manderstoke · 1944
The Wicked Lady
as Captain Jerry Jackson · 1945
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
as Self · 1984
Botany Bay
as Capt. Paul Gilbert · 1952
Cry Terror!
as Jim Molner · 1958
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Jean Tallien · 1937
Alexandre
as The Father · 1983
The Seventh Veil
as Nicholas Cunningham · 1945
Catch as Catch Can
as Robert Leyland · 1937
Bees on the Boat-Deck
as Robert Patch · 1939
The Bells Go Down
as Ted Robbins · 1943
Hero's Island
as Jacob Weber · 1962
Face to Face
as The Captain · 1952
The Upturned Glass
as Michael Joyce · 1947
Forever, Darling
as Guardian Angel · 1956
I Met a Murderer
as Mark Warrow · 1939
Escape from Zahrain
as Johnson · 1962
Sid & Judy
as Self (archive footage) · 2019
The Assisi Underground
as Bishop Nicolini · 1985
The Mill on the Floss
as Tom Tulliver · 1937
Inside Out
as Ernst Furben · 1975
The Search for Alexander the Great
as Narrator · 1981
A Place of One's Own
as Henry Smedhurst · 1945
The Star of Bethlehem
as Himself · 1954
The Popes and Their Art
as Presentor · 1983
The Glory of the Garden
as Narrator · 1982
Torpedo Bay
as Captain Blayne · 1963
The Shooting Party
as Sir Randolph Nettleby · 1985
Prison Breaker
as 'Bunny' Barnes · 1936
The Flower in His Mouth
as Avv. Antonio Bellocampo · 1975
The Uninhibited
as Pascal Regnier · 1965
Fear in the City
as Chief of Police · 1976
Group Madness
as Self · 1983
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Dr. Fischer · 1984
They Met in the Dark
as Richard Francis Heritage · 1943
Theatre 62: Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter · 1962
Late Extra
as Jim Martin · 1935
A Dangerous Summer
as George Engels · 1982
Alibi
as Andre Laurent · 1942
People of the Wind
as Jafar Qoli (voice) · 1976
Hatter's Castle
as Dr. Renwick · 1942
The London Nobody Knows
as Himself - Narrator · 1968
House Without Foundation
as Self - Narrator · 1984
The Moon in the Yellow River
as Darrell Blake · 1938
The High Command
as Capt. Heverell · 1937
They Were Sisters
as Geoffrey Lee · 1945
The Reformation: Age of Revolt
as Narrator · 1973
Ellis in Freedomland
as The Refrigerator (voice) · 1952
Lasseter's Bones
as Archival Footage · 2012
Candlelight in Algeria
as Alan Thurston · 1944
Blind Man's Bluff
as Stephen Neville · 1936
Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
as Narrator - English version · 1977
Home, James
as Self · 1972
The Patient Vanishes
as Mick Cardby · 1941
Thunder Rock
as Streeter · 1942
Halloween Monster Bash
as Stephen Deremid (archive footage) · 1991
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage) · 1965
The Wind in the Wires
as Narrator · 1972
Twice Branded
as Henry Hamilton · 1936
Troubled Waters
as John Merriman · 1936
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Christian de Neuvillette · 1938