mason dilahirkan di huddersfield, west yorkshire, inggris dari john dan mabel mason.
ayahnya sebagai pedagang.
dia belajar di peterhouse, cambridge di juarusan arsitektur pada tahun 1933.
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)
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, oleh max ophls)
madame bovary (1949)
the reckless moment (1949, by max ophls)
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) (sebagai sutradara)
5 fingers (1952)
the prisoner of zenda (1952)
face to face (1952)
charade (1953) (sebagai sutradara)
the story of three loves (1953)
botany bay (1953)
the desert rats (1953)
julius caesar (1953, oleh 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 (1956)
bigger than life (1956, by nicholas ray) (sebagai sutradara)
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)
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)
stranger in the house (1967)
vienna: the years remembered (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)
child's play (1972)
the last of sheila (1973)
the mackintosh man (1973)
the marseille contract (1974)
11 harrowhouse (1974)
the year of the wildebeest (1975)
the left hand of the law (1975)
the flower in his mouth (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) (mini tv series)
cross of iron (1977)
homage to chagall: the colours of love (1977)
the water babies (1978) (voice)
heaven can wait (1978)
the boys from brazil (1978)
murder by decree (1979)
the passage (1979)
salem's lot (1979)
north sea hijack (1980)
a dangerous summer (1981)
evil under the sun (1982)
the verdict (1982)
group madness (1983)
the shooting party (1985, oleh alan bridges)
the assisi underground (1985)