Date of Birth
15 May 1909, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Date of Death
27 July 1984, Lausanne, Switzerland (heart attack)
Birth Name
James Neville Mason
Early life
 | Born the son of a wool merchant in the British mill town of Huddersfield, Mason excelled in school and earned a degree in architecture from Cambridge in 1931. Having acted in several school plays, however, he thought he had a better shot at earning a living as an actor rather than an architect during the Great Depression. Mason won his first professional role in The Rascal and made his debut in London's West End theater world in 1933 with Gallows Glorious. A year after he joined London's Old Vic theater, he made his screen debut in Late Extra in 1935. |
| He entered films with 1935's newspaper thriller, Late Extra (1935), and, once his film career gathered momentum, he rarely appeared on the stage again, with a 1954 season at Stratford, Ontario, as exception. He owed his film start to the legendary American, UK-based agent, Al Parker, who 'discovered' him in 1935 and represented him till he, Parker, died, after which his widow, Margaret Johnston, took over the agency and Mason. |  |
The actor made a career and personal breakthrough, however, with I Met a Murderer (1939). Along with co-writing, co-producing, and starring in the film, he also wound up marrying his leading lady, Pamela Kellino, in 1940.
Mason became Britain's biggest screen star a few years later with his performance as the sadistic title character in the Gainsborough Studios melodrama The Man in Grey (1943). He became Everywoman's favourite brute: he persecuted Phyllis Calvert in Fanny by Gaslight (1944); drove Dulcie Gray to drink and suicide in They Were Sisters (1945); smashed his walking stick over Ann Todd's piano-playing fingers in The Seventh Veil (1945); and, as a highwayman, fell in with The Wicked Lady (1945).
These skilful studies in sexy sadism made him a huge box-office draw, though, when he played the character role of the retired draper in A Place of One's Own (1945), his subtlest work to date, the fans were less interested. Revealing that he could be more than just brutal leading men in weepy potboilers, he added an artistic as well as popular triumph to his credits with Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947). Starring Mason as a doomed IRA leader hunted by the police, Odd Man Out garnered international raves, and he often cited it as his favorite among his many films.
At this point, after co-starring in the British drama The Upturned Glass (1947), the Masons and their 12 cats finally headed to Hollywood (via a stint on Broadway in Bathsheba) in 1947. Mason attracted a lot of chauvinistic British criticism for doing so, and for a while the received wisdom was with the Picturegoer scribe who wrote (1950): "Certainly, James does not seem to be advancing his professional career in Hollywood". An auteurist decade later, his work for Max Ophuls in Caught (1948) and The Reckless Moment (1949) and Vincente Minnelli in Madame Bovary (1949) would be accorded new respect.
Mason's American career was firmly established by his late-'40s successes, and his elegant range helped him remain a Hollywood fixture throughout the '50s. He did some fine work in Hollywood, including Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and a troubled Brutus in Julius Caesar (1953), but it was as if he had turned his back on the easy stardom he had won in Britain in favour of becoming one of the world's best character actors.
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Taking a brief break from Hollywood, Mason returned to Europe to write and produce the British drama The Lady Possessed (1952), co-starring his wife, and star as a Harry Lime-esque black marketer in Carol Reed's The Man Between (1953). Mason stepped behind the camera as director for the first and only time with the subsequent short film The Child (1954), featuring his wife and daughter Portland Mason.
Returning to Hollywood acting, Mason garnered numerous accolades for George Cukor's lavish 1954 remake of A Star Is Born. Though the drama of his co-star Judy Garland's "comeback" and the studio's decision to re-cut the film after its debut threatened to overshadow its content, Mason's sublimely controlled fury and anguish as doomed falling star Norman Maine still brought him high praise and earned him his only Best Actor Academy Award nomination. Whether because he never particularly liked the film or because he wasn't a great fan of the Hollywood system, Mason dismissed the Oscar hoopla, noting, "They don't mean anything unless you win one; then your salary goes up." Still, 1954 proved to be a banner year for the actor, as his artistic triumph in A Star Is Born was accompanied by the popular screen version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), featuring Mason as megalomaniac submarine skipper Captain Nemo.
Bolstered by these successes, he used his clout to produce and star in Nicholas Ray's tough, groundbreaking family drama Bigger Than Life (1956). Featuring Mason as a mild-mannered father who becomes disastrously hooked on cortisone, Bigger Than Life was one of the first Hollywood movies to examine prescription drug abuse; its bold subject matter, however, was box-office poison. Soured on producing, Mason focused solely on acting for the latter half of the decade, playing such roles as a plantation owner in Island in the Sun (1957), a psychopath's unwilling accomplice in Cry Terror! (1958), an adventurer in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), and, most notably, Cary Grant's velvety nemesis Van Dam in Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece North by Northwest (1959).
Edging away from Hollywood, Mason took a supporting role in the British drama The Trials of Oscar Wilde in 1960. Having retained his British citizenship during his years in America, he left Hollywood permanently two years later, relocating to Switzerland with his family. After the move, Mason took on the challenge of playing agonized pedophile Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. Whether duping clueless mother Shelley Winters into marriage, lusting after her teenage daughter Sue Lyon, or helplessly pursuing rival pervert Peter Sellers, Mason's Humbert was as much broken victim as scheming predator, injecting uneasy emotion into the difficult role.
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Following an acrimonious divorce from Pamela and an expensive settlement in 1964, Mason started working non-stop, segueing into mostly supporting roles in British, American, and European productions. Despite appearing in such dubious fare as Genghis Khan (1965) and The Yin and Yang of Dr. Go (1970), Mason continued to resist typecasting. He made witty sport of John Mills's up-from-the-ranks colonel in Tiara Tahiti (1962), was compellingly vindictive in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), humanised a bullying patriarch in Spring and Port Wine (1970), gave significance to the clever, hothouse trash of Mandingo (1975), was a heart-breaking Cyril Sahib in the Merchant-Ivory masterpiece Autobiography of a Princess (1975), made sense of Dr Watson in Murder by Decree (1979), and grieved one to watch as the decent, troubled landowner in his last British film, The Shooting Party (1985).
Amid all this work, Mason met his second wife Clarissa Kaye on the set of Michael Powell's Australian romp Age of Consent (1969) and married her in 1971. Mason managed to find the time to write and publish his autobiography Before I Forget in 1981. The following year, he earned some of the best reviews of his career — and his final Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor — for his subtle, nuanced performance as Paul Newman's harsh courtroom adversary in Lumet's sterling legal drama The Verdict. His attitude toward the Academy mellowed with age, and Mason attended the Oscar ceremony for the first time. He did not, however, live to witness the praise for what turned out to be his final major feature role, the appropriately dignified host of The Shooting Party (1984). Mason suffered a fatal heart attack at his Swiss home in July 1984 at the age of 75. He was survived by his wife and two children from his first marriage.
Private life
Mason was a devoted lover of animals, particularly cats. He and Pamela Kellino Mason co-authored the book The Cats in Our Lives, which was published in 1949. James Mason wrote most of the book and also illustrated it. In The Cats in Our Lives, he recounted humorous and sometimes touching tales of the cats (as well as a few dogs) he had known and loved.
Mason was married twice:
* Firstly from 1941 to 1964 to British-American actress Pamela Mason (née Ostrer) (1916-1996); one daughter, Portland Mason Schuyler (1948–2004), and one son, Morgan (who is married to Belinda Carlisle, the former lead singer of The Go-Go's). Portland Mason was named after Portland Hoffa, the wife of the American radio comedian Fred Allen; the Allens and the Masons were friends.
* Australian actress Clarissa Kaye (1971-his death). Tobe Hooper's DVD commentary for Salem's Lot reveals that Mason regularly worked contractual clauses into his later work guaranteeing Kaye bit parts in his film appearances.
Awards and nominations
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1983 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Verdict (1982) - nominated
1967 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Georgy Girl (1966) - nominated
1955 - Best Actor in a Leading Role for A Star Is Born (1954) - nominated
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1979 - Best Supporting Actor for Heaven Can Wait (1978) - nominated
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
1982 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for The Verdict (1982) - nominated
1954 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for A Star is Born (1954) - won
1962 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Lolita (1962) - nominated
National Board of Review
1953 - Best Actor for Face to Face (1952), The Desert Rats (1953), Julius Caesar (1953) and The Man Between (1953) - won
BAFTA Awards
1968 - Best British Actor for The Deadly Affair (1966) - nominated
1963 - Best British Actor for Lolita (1962) - nominated
Evening Standard British Film Awards
1978 - Special Award - won
Golden Globes, USA
1983 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture for The Verdict (1982) - nominated
1963 - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for Lolita (1962) - nominated
1955 - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy for A Star Is Born (1954) - won
London Critics Circle Film Awards
1986 - Actor of the Year for The Shooting Party (1985) - won
With Glenda Jackson:
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Trivia
He should not be confused with the American actor Jim Mason (1889 - 1959), aka James Mason, who appeared in silent films, particularly Westerns in the Twenties and Thirties.
He had been considered for the part of Harry Lime in TV series "The Third Man" (1959) (1959-65) but Michael Rennie ended up in the role.
An avowed pacifist, he refused to perform military service during the Second World War, a stance that caused his family to break with him for many years.
Father of Morgan Mason and actress/scriptwriter Portland Mason .
Was responsible for getting an unknown actor from New Zealand his first major film role. That actor was Sam Neill .
Was scheduled to play James Bond 007 in a 1958 TV adaptation of From Russia with Love, which was ultimately never produced. Later, despite being in his 50s, Mason was a contender to play Bond in Dr. No (1962) before Sean Connery was cast.
Turned down the role of Hugo Drax in the 1979 Bond film Moonraker (1979) .
In 1952 while remodeling his home, he discovered several reels of Buster Keaton 's "lost" films (Mason had purchased Keaton's Hollywood mansion) and immediately recognized their historical significance and was responsible for their preservation.
Starred with his wife Clarissa Kaye-Mason in the original Salem's Lot (1979) (TV). They appeared together in the film, Age of Consent (1969).
He was offered the role of Lawyer Crosby in the The Cat and the Canary (1978). However, the gender of the role was changed to female and was played by Wendy Hiller.
Told "Playboy Magazine" in the late 1970s that he hated rock n' roll but loved country music.
Can be seen visiting the set of Stanley Kubrick 's The Shining (1980) in Vivian Kubrick's TV documentary Making 'The Shining' (1980) (TV). Stanley Kubrick did not usually allow visitors to his set, but made an exception for Mason, who had memorably played Humbert Humbert for him in Lolita (1962)
Was the original choice to play Professor Kingsfield in The Paper Chase (1973) , but had to turn down the role due to poor health. John Houseman , who had acted in only one other movie in a bit part, was cast and won an Oscar.
Was rejected by fellow student Alistair Cooke for an acting role whilst at Cambridge. Cooke asked Mason what course he was studying. "Architecture", replied Mason. "Then I think you should finish your degree and forget about acting." advised Cooke, in one of his rare lapses of judgment.
Eddie Izzard often uses an impression of James Mason in his stand-up comedy routines as the voice of a confused, dithering God.
Was offered the part of Viktor Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago (1965) by double-Oscar winning director David Lean after Marlon Brando failed to respond to director Lean's written inquiry into whether he wanted to play the role. Mason initially accepted the part. Lean decided on Mason, who was a generation older than Brando, as he did not want an actor who would overpower the character of Yuri Zhivago (specifically, to show Zhivago up as a lover of Lara, who would be played by the young Julie Christie, which the charismatic Brando might have done, shifting the sympathy of the audience). Mason eventually dropped out and Rod Steiger, who had just won the Silver Bear as Best Actor for his role as the eponymous The Pawnbroker (1964), accepted the role.
11 years after being mentioned in Rope (1948) as making an excellent villain, he was finally cast by Alfred Hitchcock as such in North by Northwest (1959).
Personal quotes
[from Bill Fairchild] In a noisy world he spoke quietly, and yet his voice will be remembered by millions who never knew him.
How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.
I'm a character actor: the public never knows what it's getting by way of a Mason performance from one film to the next. I therefore represent a thoroughly insecure investment.
[on not showing up at the 27th Academy Awards, even though he had been nominated as Best Actor for A Star Is Born (1954) and had agreed to go] The Oscar show is always a little better when things go wrong, so I had no need to feel guilty about letting them down.
[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He's my style. Renoir's good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and La grande illusion (1937), which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year - the acting and the staging of it are absolutely modern and true.
[on Sir Carol Reed] He was always a director who got as much out of actors as could possibly be gotten. And he could stage individual scenes as well as they could possibly be staged. If he had a weakness, which I admit he has, it was that he didn't have a sufficiently keen story sense.
I purposely would not go and see the old version of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). They told me my part was played by Claude Rains, for whom I have an infinite admiration, and I knew I would never be as good as him.
[on Joseph L. Mankiewicz] A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950) were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was 5 Fingers (1952), because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. For instance, Cleopatra (1963) was a hideous film but nevertheless you could see that it had some good, well-written scenes and the director had not served the writer well.
Having been fascinated by the Alan Ladd phenomenon, I now had the opportunity to study it at close quarters. It turned out that he had the exquisite coordination and rhythm of an athlete, which made it a pleasure to watch him when he was being at all physical.
[on Alfred Hitchcock] You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that's something else.
[on Judy Garland] In some of her films she showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which can only be compared to Charles Chaplin's heartbreaking quality: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive, against poverty, against desperate situations - and that's when Judy is at her best.
[on Bette Davis] The greatest actress of all time.
[on Max Ophüls] A shot that does not call for tracks is agony for dear old Max. When separated from his dolly, He's wrapped in deepest melancholy. Once, when they took away his crane, I thought he'd never smile again.
I loved Max Ophüls because he had a very unsuccessful career as far as America was concerned, but he had an irrepressible spirit. He was a brave, resilient man and a great man of theatre and he loved his work, he had an undying enthusiasm. He was a lovely man.
[on Raquel Welch] I have never met someone so badly behaved.
Walter Wanger was a man who always wanted to be European. He didn't know how to be European but he wanted to be European, so The Reckless Moment (1949) was rather the kind of film - I suppose, like Brief Encounter (1945) - that he was trying to make, but it wasn't very good.
[on Rudolph Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino's posturing technique with an equally polished vocal technique has a perfectly fair chance of becoming his romantic peer. It was his magnetism and dignity that assured him a peak of magnificent isolation.
[on Louella Parsons] Not a bad old slob.
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Filmography
Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1985) (TV) .... Dr. Fischer
... aka The Bomb Party (Australia)
The Assisi Underground (1985) .... Bishop Nicolini
"A.D." (1985) TV mini-series .... Tiberius
... aka "A.D. - Anno Domini"
The Shooting Party (1985) .... Sir Randolph Nettleby
"George Washington" (1984) TV mini-series .... Gen. Edward Braddock
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983) (TV) .... Demon
Yellowbeard (1983) .... Captain Hughes
Alexandre (1983) .... The Father
The Verdict (1982) .... Ed Concannon
A Dangerous Summer (1982) .... George Engels
... aka Burning Man
... aka Flash Fire (USA: video title)
Ivanhoe (1982) (TV) .... Isaac of York
Evil Under the Sun (1982) .... Odell Gardener
... aka Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (UK: complete title)
Socrates (1982) .... Socrates
"The Search for Alexander the Great" (1981) TV mini-series .... Host/Narrator
Salem's Lot (1979) (TV) .... Richard K. Straker
... aka Blood Thirst
... aka Salem's Lot: The Miniseries
... aka Salem's Lot: The Movie (USA: cable TV title (cut version))
Bloodline (1979) .... Sir Alec Nichols
... aka Blutspur (West Germany)
... aka Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline
The Passage (1979) .... Professor Bergson
Murder by Decree (1979) .... Dr. John H. Watson
... aka Sherlock Holmes and Saucy Jack (USA)
... aka Sherlock Holmes: Murder by Decree
North Sea Hijack (1979) .... Admiral Sir Francis Brindsen
... aka Assault Force (USA: TV title)
... aka ffolkes (USA)
The Boys from Brazil (1978) .... Eduard Seibert
... aka Boys from the Brussel (Philippines: English title)
Heaven Can Wait (1978) .... Mr. Jordan
The Water Babies (1978) .... Mr. Grimes/Voice of Killer Shark
... aka Slip Slide Adventures
"Jesus of Nazareth" (1977) TV mini-series .... Joseph of Arimathea
... aka "Gesù di Nazareth" (Italy)
Cross of Iron (1977) .... Oberst Brandt
... aka Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz (West Germany)
Voyage of the Damned (1976) .... Dr. Juan Remos
"Alle origini della mafia" .... Vianisi (1 episode, 1976)
... aka "Origins of the Mafia" (International: English title)
- Omertà (1976) TV episode .... Vianisi
Paura in città (1976) .... Prosecutor
... aka Fear in the City (UK)
... aka Hot Stuff (USA)
... aka Street War
Inside Out (1975) .... Ernst Furben
... aka Ein genialer Bluff (West Germany: TV title)
... aka Hitler's Gold
... aka The Golden Heist
Autobiography of a Princess (1975) .... Cyril Sahib
La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori (1975) .... Ing. Filippini
... aka Kidnap Syndicate (USA)
... aka La città sconvolta
Mandingo (1975) .... Warren Maxwell
La polizia interviene: ordine di uccidere (1975) .... Senator Leandri
... aka La mano sinistra della legge
... aka The Left Hand of the Law
Gente di rispetto (1975) .... Avv. Antonio Bellocampo
... aka The Flower in His Mouth (USA)
... aka The Masters
... aka The Schoolmistress and the Devil
Great Expectations (1974) (TV) .... Magwitch
11 Harrowhouse (1974) .... Charles D. Watts
... aka Anything for Love (USA: TV title)
... aka Eleven Harrowhouse
... aka Fast Fortune
The Marseille Contract (1974) .... Jacques Brizard
... aka Marseille contrat (France)
... aka The Destructors (USA)
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) (TV) .... Dr. John Polidori
The MacKintosh Man (1973) .... Sir George Wheeler
The Last of Sheila (1973) .... Philip
Child's Play (1972) .... Jerome Malley
Kill! (1971) .... Alan Hamilton
... aka Kill! (West Germany)
... aka Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (USA)
... aka Kill: matar (Spain)
... aka Police Magnum (France)
Bad Man's River (1971) .... Francisco Montero
... aka E continuavano a fregarsi il milione di dollari (Italy)
... aka El hombre de Río Malo (Spain)
... aka Hunt the Man Down (USA)
... aka Les quatre mercenaires d'El Paso (France)
"The Search for the Nile" .... Narrator (6 episodes, 1971-1972)
- Conquest and Death (1971) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator
- Find Livingstone (1971) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator
- The Great Debate (1971) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator
- The Secret Fountains (1971) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator
- Discovery and Betrayal (1971) TV episode (voice) .... Narrator
(1 more)
"Appointment with Destiny" .... Narrator (1 episode, 1971)
- The Plot to Murder Hitler (1971) TV episode .... Narrator
De la part des copains (1970) .... Captain Ross
... aka Cold Sweat (UK) (USA)
... aka De vrienden laten groeten (Belgium: Flemish title)
... aka From the Boys (International: English title: informal literal title)
... aka L'uomo dalle due ombre (Italy)
Spring and Port Wine (1970) .... Rafe Crompton
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970) .... Y. Y. Go
... aka The Third Eye
Age of Consent (1969) .... Bradley Morahan
A Tall, Stalwart Lancer (1969) (TV) .... Torquil Callander
The Legend of Silent Night (1968) (TV) .... Franz Gruber
The Sea Gull (1968) .... Trigorin, a writer
... aka Chekov's The Sea Gull (UK: complete title)
Mayerling (1968) .... Emperor Franz-Josef
... aka Terence Young's Mayerling (UK: complete title)
Duffy (1968) .... Charles Calvert
Stranger in the House (1967) .... John Sawyer
... aka Cop-Out (USA)
"ITV Play of the Week" .... Bernard Sholto (1 episode, 1966)
... aka "Play of the Week" (UK: short title)
- The Tormentors (1966) TV episode .... Bernard Sholto
The Deadly Affair (1966) .... Charles Dobbs
Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn (1966) (TV)
Georgy Girl (1966) .... James Leamington
The Blue Max (1966) .... General Count von Klugermann
"ABC Stage 67" .... Otto Hoffmann (1 episode, 1966)
- Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) TV episode .... Otto Hoffmann
"Dr. Kildare" .... Dr. Maxwell Becker (4 episodes, 1965)
- The Horizontal Hero (1965) TV episode .... Dr. Maxwell Becker
- Web of Hate (1965) TV episode .... Dr. Maxwell Becker
- A Life for a Life (1965) TV episode .... Dr. Maxwell Becker
- Behold the Great Man (1965) TV episode .... Dr. Maxwell Becker
Los pianos mecánicos (1965) .... Pascal Regnier
... aka Amori di una calda estate (Italy)
... aka Die Versuchung heißt Jenny (West Germany)
... aka Les pianos mécaniques (France)
... aka The Player Pianos
... aka The Uninhibited (USA)
Genghis Khan (1965) .... Kam Ling
... aka Dschingis Khan (West Germany)
... aka Dzingis-Kan
Lord Jim (1965) .... Gentleman Brown
The Pumpkin Eater (1964) .... Bob Conway
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) .... Timonides
Beta Som (1963) .... Captain Blayne
... aka Défi à Gibraltar (France)
... aka Finché dura la tempesta (Italy)
... aka Torpedo Bay (USA)
"Stoney Burke" .... Enoch Gates, the 'Derelict' (1 episode, 1962)
- The Scavenger (1962) TV episode .... Enoch Gates, the 'Derelict'
"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" .... Warren Barrow (1 episode, 1962)
- Captive Audience (1962) TV episode .... Warren Barrow
Hero's Island (1962) .... Jacob Weber/Major Bonnet, Pirate
... aka The Land We Love
Tiara Tahiti (1962) .... Capt. Brett Aimsley
Lolita (1962) .... Prof. Humbert Humbert
Escape from Zahrain (1962) (uncredited) .... Johnson
Rebecca (1962) (TV) .... Maxim de Winter
The Marriage-Go-Round (1961) .... Paul Delville
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) .... Sir Edward Carson
... aka The Green Carnation
... aka The Man with the Green Carnation
... aka The Trial of Oscar Wilde
"The DuPont Show with June Allyson" .... Henry Chambers (1 episode, 1960)
... aka "The June Allyson Show"
- Once Upon a Knight (1960) TV episode .... Henry Chambers
"Playhouse 90" .... Hans Frick / ... (5 episodes, 1957-1960)
- The Hiding Place (1960) TV episode .... Hans Frick
- John Brown's Raid (1960) TV episode .... John Brown
- The Second Man (1959) TV episode .... Hesketh
- Not the Glory (1958) TV episode .... Wilhelm Konreid
- The Thundering Wave (1957) TV episode .... Sidney Lowe
A Touch of Larceny (1959) .... Cmdr. Max Easton
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) .... Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook
... aka Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth
... aka Trip to the Center of the Earth
North by Northwest (1959) .... Phillip Vandamm
... aka Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (USA: complete title)
"Goodyear Theatre" .... Marius (1 episode, 1959)
... aka "Award Theatre" (USA: syndication title)
... aka "Golden Years of Television" (USA: cable TV title)
- A Sword for Marius (1959) TV episode .... Marius
The Decks Ran Red (1958) .... Capt. Edwin Rummill
Cry Terror! (1958) .... Jim Molner
"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" .... Captain Vialez (1 episode, 1958)
... aka "Herald Playhouse" (USA: syndication title)
... aka "Schlitz Playhouse" (USA: new title)
... aka "The Playhouse" (USA: syndication title)
- No Boat for Four Months (1958) TV episode .... Captain Vialez
"General Electric Theater" .... Wayne Sebastian (1 episode, 1957)
... aka "G.E. Theater" (USA: informal short title)
... aka "G.E. True Theater" (USA: new title)
- The Questioning Note (1957) TV episode .... Wayne Sebastian
Island in the Sun (1957) .... Maxwell Fleury
"Panic!" (1 episode, 1957)
... aka "No Warning" (USA: second season title)
- Marooned (1957) TV episode
Bigger Than Life (1956) .... Ed Avery
"General Electric Summer Originals" (1 episode, 1956)
- Duel at Dawn (1956) TV episode
Forever, Darling (1956) .... The Guardian Angel
"The James Mason Show" (1956) TV series .... Host/Performer
"Lux Video Theatre" .... Host (1 episode, 1955)
... aka "Summer Video Theatre" (USA: summer title)
- A Bell for Adano (1955) TV episode .... Host
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) .... Captain Nemo
... aka Jules Verne's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (USA: complete title)
... aka Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (USA: poster title)
A Star Is Born (1954) .... Norman Maine
Prince Valiant (1954) .... Sir Brack
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953/I) (voice) .... Narrator
The Man Between (1953) .... Ivo Kern
Julius Caesar (1953) .... Brutus
... aka William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
The Desert Rats (1953) .... Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel
Botany Bay (1953) .... Capt. Paul Gilbert
The Story of Three Loves (1953) .... Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover")
... aka Equilibrium
... aka Three Stories of Love
"Omnibus" .... Napoleon (1 episode, 1953)
- The Love Story of Napoleon (1953) TV episode .... Napoleon
Charade (1953) .... The Murderer/Maj. Linden/Jonah Watson
Face to Face (1952) .... The Captain ('The Secret Sharer')
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) .... Rupert of Hentzau
5 Fingers (1952) .... Ulysses Diello
... aka Five Fingers
Lady Possessed (1952) .... Jimmy Del Palma
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) .... Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Rommel
... aka Rommel, Desert Fox (UK)
... aka The Desert Fox (USA: short title)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) .... Hendrik van der Zee
One Way Street (1950) .... Dr. Frank Matson
East Side, West Side (1949) .... Brandon Bourne
The Reckless Moment (1949) .... Martin Donnelly
Madame Bovary (1949) .... Gustave Flaubert
Caught (1949) .... Larry Quinada
The Upturned Glass (1947) .... Michael Joyce
Odd Man Out (1947) .... Johnny McQueen
... aka Gang War
The Wicked Lady (1945) .... Captain Jerry Jackson
The Seventh Veil (1945) .... Nicholas
They Were Sisters (1945) .... Geoffrey Lee
A Place of One's Own (1945) .... Mr. Henry Smedhurst
Hotel Reserve (1944) .... Peter Vadassy
... aka Epitaph for a Spy
Candlelight in Algeria (1944) .... Alan Thurston
Fanny by Gaslight (1944) .... Lord Manderstoke
... aka Man of Evil (USA)
They Met in the Dark (1943) .... Richard Francis Heritage
The Man in Grey (1943) .... Lord Rohan
The Bells Go Down (1943) .... Ted Robbins
Thunder Rock (1942) .... Streeter
Secret Mission (1942) .... Raoul de Carnot
Alibi (1942) .... Andre Laurent
The Night Has Eyes (1942) .... Stephen Deremid
... aka Terror House (USA)
Hatter's Castle (1942) .... Dr. Renwick
... aka A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (USA)
The Patient Vanishes (1941) .... Mick Cardby
... aka This Man Is Dangerous
The Circle (1939) (TV) .... Edward Luton
L'avare (1939) (TV) .... Valere - in love with Elise
I Met a Murderer (1939) .... Mark Warrow
Square Pegs (1939) (TV) .... Lead role (27th February 1939 version)
Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939) (TV) .... Robert Patch
The Moon in the Yellow River (1938) (TV) .... Darrell Blake
Cyrano de Bergerac (1938) (TV) .... Christian de Neuvillette
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) .... Jean Tallien
Catch As Catch Can (1937) .... Robert Leyland
... aka Atlantic Episode
Fire Over England (1937) .... Hillary Vane
The Mill on the Floss (1937) .... Tom Tulliver
Troubled Waters (1936) .... John Merriman
Blind Man's Bluff (1936) .... Stephen Neville
Prison Breaker (1936) .... 'Bunny' Barnes
Twice Branded (1936) .... Henry Hamilton
The High Command (1936) .... Capt. Heverell
Secret of Stamboul (1936) .... Larry
... aka The Spy in White
Late Extra (1935) .... Jim Martin
Producer
Age of Consent (1969) (producer)
Hero's Island (1962) (producer)
... aka The Land We Love
Bigger Than Life (1956) (producer)
Charade (1953) (producer)
Lady Possessed (1952) (producer)
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