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James Mason
Highest Rated: 100% Five Fingers (1952)
Lowest Rated: 22% Yellowbeard (1983)
Birthday: May 15, 1909
Birthplace: Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Gifted with one of the most mellifluous and distinctive voices of his era, James Mason managed to convey volumes of emotion while often remaining surprisingly understated. Following some stage experience and roles in British B-pictures, Mason became a star in his homeland via films like "The Man in Grey" (1943), "The Wicked Lady" (1945), and "Odd Man Out" (1947) and was eventually lured to Hollywood. His performances in "The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel" (1951), "A Star is Born" (1954), "North by Northwest" (1959), and "Lolita" (1962) ranked amongst his very finest. He also appeared in such projects as "Heaven Can Wait" (1978), "Murder by Decree" (1979), and "The Verdict" (1982), all of which made excellent use of attributes that had long endeared Mason to audiences worldwide. Mason's uniqueness and versatility were his greatest assets and served him well throughout his career, particularly when he aged into being one of the finest character players in cinema.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Assisi Underground | Bishop Nicolini (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 100% | 61% | The Shooting Party | Sir Randolph Nettleby (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 22% | 63% | Yellowbeard | Captain Hughes (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alexandre | The Father (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Fischer of Geneva | Dr. Fischer (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Dangerous Summer | George Engels (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Ivanhoe | Isaac of York (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 92% | 73% | Evil Under the Sun | Odell Gardener (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 88% | 88% | The Verdict | Ed Concannon (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 43% | 47% | ffolkes | Admiral Brindsen (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Bloodline | Sir Alec Nichols (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | The Passage | Prof. John Bergson (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 89% | 65% | Salem's Lot | Richard K. Straker (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 86% | 64% | Murder by Decree | Dr. John H. Watson (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 69% | 66% | The Boys From Brazil | Eduard Seibert (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | The Water Babies |
Mr. Grimes/ |
- | 1978 |
| 86% | 69% | Heaven Can Wait | Mr. Jordan (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slip Slide Adventures |
Mr. Grimes/ |
- | 1978 |
| 71% | 87% | Cross of Iron | Oberst Brandt (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love | English Narrator (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Kidnap Syndicate | Filippini (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 77% | 52% | Voyage of the Damned | Dr. Juan Remos (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | People of the Wind | Narrator | - | 1976 |
| 29% | 64% | Mandingo | Warren Maxwell (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Flower in His Mouth | Avv. Antonio Bellocampo (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Inside Out | Ernst Furben (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Autobiography of a Princess | Cyril Sahib (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | The Destructors | Jacques Brizard (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | 11 Harrowhouse | Charles D. Watts (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Great Expectations | Magwitch (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 55% | 44% | The Mackintosh Man | Sir George Wheeler (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Frankenstein: The True Story | Dr. John Polidori (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 90% | 84% | The Last of Sheila | Philip (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go | Y.Y. Go (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Child's Play | Jerome Malley (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kill! | Hamilton (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Bad Man's River | Francisco Montero (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Cold Sweat | Captain Ross (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spring and Port Wine | Rafe Crompton (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 100% | 48% | Age of Consent |
Bradley Morahan (Character), Producer |
- | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Duffy | Charles Calvert (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sea Gull | Trigorin (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Mayerling | Emperor Franz-Josef (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Legend of Silent Night | Franz Gruber (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Uninhibited | Pascal Regnier (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | The London Nobody Knows | Narrator | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cop-Out | John Sawyer (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Deadly Affair | Charles Dobbs (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 100% | 76% | The Blue Max | General Count von Klugermann (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 83% | 71% | Georgy Girl | James Leamington (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Genghis Khan | Kam Ling (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 57% | 55% | Lord Jim | Gentleman Brown (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 93% | 69% | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Timonides (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 67% | 72% | The Pumpkin Eater | Bob Conway (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Torpedo Bay | Captain Blayne (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Hero's Island |
Jacob Weber (Character), Producer |
- | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tiara Tahiti | Capt. Brett Aimsley (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Escape From Zahrain | Johnson (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 91% | 84% | Lolita | Prof. Humbert Humbert (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marriage-Go-Round | Paul Delville (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 100% | 48% | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Sir Edward Carson (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | A Touch of Larceny | Cmdr. Max Easton (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 84% | 69% | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 97% | 94% | North by Northwest | Phillip Vandamm (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Cry Terror | Jim Molner (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Decks Ran Red | Capt. Edwin Rummill (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Island in the Sun | Maxwell Fleury (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | Forever Darling | The Guardian Angel (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 91% | 84% | Bigger Than Life |
Ed Avery (Character), Producer |
- | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Star of Bethlehem |
Unknown (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1954 |
| 98% | 81% | A Star Is Born | Norman Maine (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 91% | 74% | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Capt. Nemo (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Prince Valiant | Sir Brack (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | The Man Between | Ivo Kern (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | The Story of Three Loves | Charles Coutray (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 100% | 71% | The Desert Rats | Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | The Tell-Tale Heart | Narrator | - | 1953 |
| 96% | 81% | Julius Caesar | Brutus (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Charade |
The Murderer/ Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Botany Bay | Capt. Paul Gilbert (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 100% | 90% | Five Fingers | Ulysses Diello (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | The Prisoner of Zenda | Rupert of Hentzau (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady Possessed | Jimmy Del Palma (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Face to Face | The Captain (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 71% | 61% | The Desert Fox | Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Rommel (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 69% | 75% | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Hendrik van der Zee (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | One Way Street | Dr. Frank Matson (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | The Reckless Moment | Martin Donnelly (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 43% | 74% | East Side, West Side | Brandon Bourne (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 100% | 77% | Caught | Larry Quinada (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 100% | 86% | Odd Man Out | Johnny McQueen (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Upturned Glass | Unknown (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 38% | 78% | The Wicked Lady | Captain Jerry Jackson (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Seventh Veil | Nicholas (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | A Place of One's Own | Smedhurst (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | They Were Sisters | Geoffrey Lee (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 50% | 52% | Fanny by Gaslight | Lord Manderstroke (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Hotel Reserve | Peter Vadassy (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Candlelight in Algeria | Alan Thurston (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | They Met in the Dark | Richard Francis Heritage (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Man in Grey | Lord Rohan (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Bells Go Down | Ted Robbins (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Secret Mission | Raoul de Carnot (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Terror House | Stephen Deremid (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Thunder Rock | Streeter (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alibi | Andre Laurent (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hatters Castle | Dr. Renwick (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Patient Vanishes | Mick Cardby (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Met a Murderer | Mark Warrow (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Jean Tallien (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Command | Capt. Heverell (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mill on the Floss | Tom Tulliver (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blind Man's Bluff | Stephen Neville (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Troubled Waters | John Merriman (Character) | - | 1936 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1951 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Maxwell Becker (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1962 |