James Mason

**James Neville Mason** (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.

### Film

|Year|Title|class="unsortable"|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||_Late Extra_|Jim Martin||||
|rowspan="6"||_Twice Branded_|Henry Hamilton|||
|_Prison Breaker_|'Bunny' Barnes|||||
|_Troubled Waters_|John Merriman|||||
|_Blind Man's Bluff_|Stephen Neville|||||
|_The Secret of Stamboul_|Larry|||||
|_The Mill on the Floss_|Tom Tulliver|||||
|rowspan="4"||_Fire Over England_|Hillary Vane|||
|_The High Command_|Capt. Heverell|||||
|_Catch As Catch Can_|Robert Leyland|||||
|_The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel_|Jean Tallien|||||
||_I Met a Murderer_|Mark Warrow||||
||_This Man Is Dangerous_|Mick Cardby|aka _The Patient Vanishes_|||
|rowspan="5"||_Hatter's Castle_|Dr Renwick|||
|_The Night Has Eyes_|Stephen Deremid|aka _Terror House_||||
|_Alibi_|Andre Laurent|||||
|_Secret Mission_|Raoul de Carnot|||||
|_Thunder Rock_|Streeter|||||
|rowspan="3"||_The Bells Go Down_|Ted Robbins|||
|_The Man in Grey_|Lord Rohan|||||
|_They Met in the Dark_|Richard Francis Heritage|||||
|rowspan="3"||_Candlelight in Algeria_|Alan Thurston|||
|_Fanny by Gaslight_|Lord Manderstoke|aka _Man of Evil_||||
|_Hotel Reserve_|Peter Vadassy|||||
|rowspan="4"||_A Place of One's Own_|Smedhurst|||
|_They Were Sisters_|Geoffrey Lee|||||
|_The Seventh Veil_|Nicholas|||||
|_The Wicked Lady_|Capt. Jerry Jackson|||||
|rowspan="2"||_Odd Man Out_|Johnny McQueen|||
|_The Upturned Glass_|Michael Joyce|||||
|rowspan="4"||_Caught_|Larry Quinada|||
|_Madame Bovary_|Gustave Flaubert|||||
|_The Reckless Moment_|Martin Donnelly|||||
|_East Side, West Side_|Brandon Bourne|||||
||_One Way Street_|Frank Matson||||
|rowspan="2"||_Pandora and the Flying Dutchman_|Hendrik van der Zee|||
|_The Desert Fox_|Field Marshal Erwin Rommel|||||
|rowspan="5"||_Lady Possessed_|Jimmy del Palma|Also producer and writer||
|_5 Fingers_|Ulysses Diello|||||
|_Face to Face_|The Captain ('The Secret Sharer')|||||
|_The Prisoner of Zenda_|Rupert of Hentzau|||||
|_Botany Bay_|Capt. Paul Gilbert|||||
|rowspan="5"||_The Story of Three Loves_|Charles Coutray|Segment: "The Jealous Lover"||
|_The Desert Rats_|Field Marshal Erwin Rommel|||||
|_Julius Caesar_|Brutus|||||
|_The Man Between_|Ivo Kern|||||
|_The Tell-Tale Heart_|Narrator|Voice; Animated short subject||||
|rowspan="4"||_Prince Valiant_|Sir Brack|||
|_Charade_|The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson|Also producer and writer||||
|_A Star Is Born_|Norman Maine|||||
|_20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_|Captain Nemo|||||
|rowspan="2"||_Forever, Darling_|The Guardian Angel|||
|_Bigger Than Life_|Ed Avery|Also producer and writer||||
||_Island in the Sun_|Maxwell Fleury||||
|rowspan="2"||_Cry Terror!_|Jim Molner|||
|_The Decks Ran Red_|Capt. Edwin Rummill|||||
|rowspan="3"||_North by Northwest_|Phillip Vandamm|||
|_A Touch of Larceny_|Cmdr. Max Easton|||||
|_Journey to the Center of the Earth_|Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook|||||
||_The Trials of Oscar Wilde_|Sir Edward Carson||||
||_The Marriage-Go-Round_|Paul Delville||||
|rowspan="4"||_Escape from Zahrain_|Johnson|Uncredited||
|_Lolita_|Prof. Humbert Humbert|||||
|_Tiara Tahiti_|Capt. Brett Aimsley|||||
|_Hero's Island_|Jacob Weber|||||
||_Torpedo Bay_|Captain Blayne||||
|rowspan="2"||_The Fall of the Roman Empire_|Timonides|||
|_The Pumpkin Eater_|Bob Conway|||||
|rowspan="3"||_Lord Jim_|Gentleman Brown|||
|_Genghis Khan_|Kam Ling|||||
|_The Uninhibited_|Pascal Regnier|||||
|rowspan="3"||_Georgy Girl_|James Leamington|||
|_The Blue Max_|General Count von Klugermann|||||
|_Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn_|Otto Hoffman|||||
|rowspan="3"||_The Deadly Affair_|Charles Dobbs|||
|_The London Nobody Knows_|Narrator|Documentary||||
|_Stranger in the House_|John Sawyer|(also known as _Cop Out_)||||
|rowspan="3"||_Duffy_|Charles Calvert|||
|_Mayerling_|Emperor Franz-Joseph|||||
|_The Sea Gull_|Trigorin, a writer|||||
||_Age of Consent_|Bradley Morahan||||
|rowspan="3"||_Spring and Port Wine_|Rafe Crompton|||
|_Cold Sweat_|Captain Ross|||||
|_The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go_|Y.Y. Go|||||
|rowspan="2"||_Bad Man's River_|Francisco Paco Montero|||
|_Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!_|Alan Hamilton|||||
||_Child's Play_|Jerome Mailey||||
|rowspan="3"||_John Keats: His Life and Death_|Narrator (voice)|||
|_The Last of Sheila_|Phillip|||||
|_The Mackintosh Man_|Sir George Wheeler|||||
|rowspan="3"||_11 Harrowhouse_|Charles D. Watts|||
|_Great Expectations_|Abel Magwitch|||||
|_The Marseille Contract_|Jacques Brizard|Released as _The Destructors_||||
|rowspan="7"||_The Year of the Wildebeest_|Narrator|Documentary||
|_Mandingo_|Warren Maxwell|||||
|_Kidnap Syndicate_|Fillippini|||||
|_The Left Hand of the Law_|Senator Leandri|||||
|_Autobiography of a Princess_|Cyril Sahib|||||
|_Inside Out_|Ernst Furben|||||
|_The Flower in His Mouth_|Bellocampo|||||
|rowspan="3"||_People of the Wind_|Narrator|Documentary||
|_Voyage of the Damned_|Juan Ramos|||||
|_Fear in the City_|Prosecutor|||||
|rowspan=2|1977|_Cross of Iron_|Oberst Brandt|||
|_Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love_|Narrator|Documentary||||
|rowspan="3"||_The Water Babies_|Mr Grimes Voice of Killer Shark|||
|_Heaven Can Wait_|Mr Jordan|||||
|_The Boys from Brazil_|Eduard Seibert|||||
|rowspan="3"||_Murder by Decree_|John H. Watson|||
|_The Passage_|Prof. John Bergson|||||
|_Bloodline_|Sir Alec Nichols|||||
|rowspan="5"||_Evil Under the Sun_|Odell Gardener|||
|_Ivanhoe_|Isaac of York|||||
|_A Dangerous Summer_|George Engels|||||
|_The Verdict_|Ed Concannon|||||
|_Socrates_|Socrates|||||
|rowspan="2"||_Yellowbeard_|Captain Hughes|||
|_Alexandre_|The Father|||||
|1984|_Dr. Fischer of Geneva_|Dr Fischer||||
|rowspan="2"||_The Shooting Party_|Sir Randolph Nettleby|||
|_The Assisi Underground_|Bishop Nicolini|Final film role||||

### Television

|Year|Title|Role|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1962|''Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Captive Audience|Warren Borrow|S1 E5 TV Series||
|1973|_Frankenstein: The True Story_|Dr. John Polidori|TV miniseries||
||_Jesus of Nazareth_|Joseph of Arimathea|TV miniseries||
|rowspan=2|1979|_North Sea Hijack_|Admiral Brinsden|Released as Assault Force on US TV|
|_Salem's Lot_|Richard K. Straker|TV miniseries|||
|1983|_Don't Eat the Pictures_|Demon|TV||
||_George Washington_|Edward Braddock|TV miniseries||
|1985|_A.D._|Tiberius|TV miniseries||

### Theatre

|Year|Title|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1933|_Henry VIII_|Cromwell|The Old Vic, London|
|1933|_Measure for Measure_|Claudio||
|1933-34|_The Cherry Orchard_|Yasha||
|1934|_The Tempest_|Francisco||
|1934|_The Importance of Being Earnest_|Merriam||
|1934|_Macbeth_|Lennox||
|1947|_Bathsheba_|David|Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway|
|1979|_Faith Healer_|Frank Hardy|Longacre Theatre, Broadway|

### Radio

|Year|Programme|Episode/source|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1950|_Suspense_|_Banquo's Chair_|
|1952|_Odd Man Out_||
|1953|_The Queen's Ring_||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: James Mason
- **image**: James Mason Studio Publicity.jpg
- **caption**: Mason, 1940s
- **birth name**: James Neville Mason
- **birth place**: Huddersfield, England
- **death place**: Lausanne, Switzerland
- **alma mater**: Peterhouse, Cambridge
- **occupation**: Actor
- **years active**: 1931–1984