British actor James Mason wears a black dinner jacket and bow tie

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James Mason later went to Hollywood and initially had a thin time, but during the 1950s became a respected interpreter of varied and interesting characters. Married Pamela Kellino.

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Father and Son (1936)
Henry Hamilton
Fire Over England (1937)
Vane
The Mill on the Floss (1937)
Tom Tulliver
The High Command (1937)
Capt Heverell
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
Jean Tallien
I Met a Murderer (1939)
Mark Warrow
Alibi (1942)
Andre Laurent
Hatter’s Castle (1942)
Dr Renwick
The Night Has Eyes (1942)
Stephen Deremid
Secret Mission (1942)
Raoul de Carnot
Thunder Rock (1942)
Streeter
The Bells Go Down (1943)
Ted Robbins
The Man in Grey (1943)
Lord Rohan
They Met in the Dark (1943)
Richard Francis Heritage
Candlelight in Algeria (1944)
Alan Thurston
Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
Lord Manderstoke
Hotel Reserve (1944)
Peter Vadassy
The Seventh Veil (1945)
Nicholas
A Place of One’s Own (1945)
Smedhurst
They Were Sisters (1945)
Geoffrey Lee
The Wicked Lady (1945)
Capt Jerry Jackson
Odd Man Out (1947)
Johnny McQueen
The Upturned Glass (1947)
Michael Joyce
Caught (1949)
Larry Quinada
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Martin Donnelly
Rommel, Desert Fox (1951)
Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Rommel
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
Hendrik van der Zee
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Rupert of Hentzau
Botany Bay (1952)
Capt Paul Gilbert
Five Fingers (1952)
Ulysses Diello
The Desert Rats (1953)
Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel
Julius Caesar (1953)
Brutus
The Man Between (1953)
Ivo Kern
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Captain Nemo
A Star Is Born (1954)
Norman Maine
Prince Valiant (1954)
Sir Brack
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Ed Avery
The Decks Ran Red (1958)
Capt Edwin Rummill
North by Northwest (1959)
Phillip Vandamm
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Sir Oliver S Lindenbrook
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Sir Edward Carson
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
Cdr Max Easton
Escape from Zahrain (1962)
Johnson
Tiara Tahiti (1962)
Capt Brett Aimsley
Lolita (1962)
Prof Humbert Humbert
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Timonides
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Bob Conway
Lord Jim (1965)
Gentleman Brown
Genghis Khan (1965)
Kam Ling
The Blue Max (1966)
General Count von Klugermann
Georgy Girl (1966)
James Leamington
The Deadly Affair (1967)
Charles Dobbs
Duffy (1968)
J C Calvert
The London Nobody Knows (1969)
Himself – Guide / Narrator
Age of Consent (1969)
Bradley Morahan
Spring and Port Wine (1970)
Rafe Crompton
Bad Man’s River (1971)
Francisco Paco Montero
Child’s Play (1972)
Jerome Malley
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Sir George Wheeler
Great Expectations (1974)
Magwitch
Cross of Iron (1977)
Oberst
The Water Babies (1978)
Mr Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Eduard Seibert
Bloodline (1979)
Sir Alec Nichols
The Passage (1979)
Prof John Bergson
Murder by Decree (1979)
Dr John H Watson
North Sea Hijack (1980)
Admiral Brinsden
The Verdict (1982)
Ed Concannon
Ivanhoe (1982)
Isaac of York
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Odell Gardener
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Personal Details

Born
Died
Pamela Kellino
Wife  m. 1941–1964 (divorced)
Morgan Mason
Son

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