James Mason

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James Mason
Mason în rolul lui Brutus in filmul Iuliu Cezar
Nume la naștere	James Neville Mason
Naștere	15 mai 1909(1909-05-15) Huddersfield, Anglia
Deces	27 iulie 1984 (75 ani) Lausanne, Elveția
Globul de Aur
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy 1955 A Star Is Born

1971

James Neville Mason (n. 15 mai 1909  – d. 27 iulie 1984) a fost un actor britanic nominalizat de trei ori pentru Academy Award, care a atins statutul de star atât în filme britanice cât și americane.

Biografie

Viață timpurie

James Mason s-a născut în Huddersfield, Yorkshire, ca fiu al lui John, un negustor bogat, și Mabel Mason. Mason nu a avut nici un fel de antrenament formal pentru meseria de actor, apărând în calitate de novice la începuturi. A studiat la Marlborough College și apoi arhitectura la cunoscutul Peterhouse, Cambridge, de unde a obținut prima sa diplomă. În aceeași perioadă de timp, a început să activeze ca actor cu diferite companii teatrale, iar ulterior s-a alăturat echipei actoricești a teatrului Old Vic din Londra, lucrând cu Tyrone Guthrie și Alexander Korda, care i-a și dat lui Mason un scurt rol filmic în 1933, dar l-a și concediat după doar câteva zile de filmare.

Filmografie

• Late Extra (1935)
• Twice Branded (1936)
• Troubled Waters (1936)
• Secret of Stamboul (1936)
• Prison Breaker (1936)
• The High Command (1936)
• Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
• The Mill on the Floss (1937)
• Catch As Catch Can (1937)
• Fire Over England (1937)
• Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
• I Met a Murderer (1939)
• The Patient Vanishes (1941)
• Hatter's Castle (1941)
• The Night Has Eyes (1942)
• Alibi (1942)
• Secret Mission (1942)
• Thunder Rock (1943)
• The Bells Go Down (1943)
• The Man in Grey (1943)
• They Met in the Dark (1943)
• Hotel Reserve (1944)
• Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
• Candlelight in Algeria (1944)
• A Place of One's Own (1945)
• They Were Sisters (1945)
• The Wicked Lady (1945)
• The Seventh Veil (1945)
• Odd Man Out (1947)
• The Upturned Glass (1947)
• Caught (1949, by Max Ophüls)
• Madame Bovary (1949)
• The Reckless Moment (1949, by Max Ophüls)
• East Side, West Side (1949)
• One Way Street (1950)
• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
• The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
• Lady Possessed (1952) (also producer and writer)
• 5 Fingers (1952)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
• Face to Face (1952)
• Charade (1953) (1953) (also producer and writer)
• The Story of Three Loves (1953)
• Botany Bay (1953)
• The Desert Rats (1953)
• Julius Caesar (1953, by Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• The Man Between (1953)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1953) (animated short subject) (voice)
• Prince Valiant (1954)
• A Star Is Born (1954, by George Cukor)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• Forever, Darling (with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) (1956)
• Bigger Than Life (1956, by Nicholas Ray) (also producer and writer)
• Island in the Sun (1957)
• Cry Terror! (1958)
• The Decks Ran Red (1958)
• A Touch of Larceny (1959)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
• The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
• Escape from Zahrain (1962)
• Lolita (1962)
• Hero's Island (1962)

• Tiara Tahiti (1962)
• Torpedo Bay (1963)
• The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
• The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
• Lord Jim (1965)
• Genghis Khan (1965)
• The Uninhibited (1965)
• The Blue Max (1966)
• Georgy Girl (1966)
• The Deadly Affair (1966)
• The London Nobody Knows (1967) (documentary) (narrator)
• Stranger in the House (1967)
• The Legend og Silent Night (1967) (For ABC Television Network)
• Vienna: The Years Remembered (1968) (short subject)
• Duffy (1968)
• Mayerling (1968)
• The Sea Gull (1968, by Sidney Lumet)
• Age of Consent (1969)
• The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
• Spring and Port Wine (1970)
• Cold Sweat (1970)
• Bad Man's River (1971)
• Kill! (1971)
• Child's Play (1972)
• Frankenstein: The True Story (1973 TV mini-series)
• The Last of Sheila (1973)
• The Mackintosh Man (1973)
• The Marseille Contract (1974)
• 11 Harrowhouse (1974)
• The Year of the Wildebeest (1975) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Left Hand of the Law (1975)
• The Flower in His Mouth (1975)
• Mandingo (1975)
• Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
• Autobiography of a Princess (1975, by James Ivory)
• Inside Out (1975)
• Hot Stuff (1976)
• People of the Wind (1976) (documentary) (narrator)
• Voyage of the Damned (1976)
• Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
• Cross of Iron (1977)
• Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977) (documentary) (narrator in English version)
• The Water Babies (1978) (voice)
• Heaven Can Wait (1978)
• The Boys from Brazil (1978)
• Murder by Decree (1979)
• The Passage (1979)
• Bloodline (1979)
• Salem's Lot (1979) (for American TV)
• North Sea Hijack (1980)
• A Dangerous Summer (1981)
• Ivanhoe (1982)
• Evil Under the Sun (1982)
• The Verdict (1982)
• Group Madness (1983) (documentary)
• Alexandre (1983)
• Yellowbeard (1983)
• Don't Eat the Pictures (1983)
• The Shooting Party (1984, by Alan Bridges)
• The Assisi Underground (1984)
• A.D. (1985) (TV mini-series)
• Dr Fischer of Geneva (1985) (TV film)

Legături externe

• James Mason pe PORT.ro

• James Mason la Internet Movie Database
• Greta Garbo & James Mason