Lolita1962
As Prof. Humbert Humbert
TMDb 7.3 / 10
James Mason
Born
James Neville Mason (known as James Mason; May 15, 1909 – July 27, 1984) was an English actor who made a significant impact on both British and American cinema. His acting career began in the 1930s, where he initially gained recognition for his stage performances in London's West End. He made his film debut in 1935 with the British film "Late Extra," marking the start of his illustrious on-screen journey. Throughout his career, Mason showcased his exceptional acting abilities, often portraying complex and morally ambiguous characters. His commanding presence, distinctive voice, and versatile range allowed him to effortlessly transition between genres, from dramas to thrillers and even period pieces. One of Mason's most acclaimed performances came in 1945 when he starred as the troubled and enigmatic Johnny McQueen in the film "Odd Man Out." His portrayal of the wounded Irish nationalist earned him widespread praise and established him as a respected leading man. Mason's notable filmography includes memorable roles in films such as "The Wicked Lady" (1945), "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" (1951), "A Star Is Born" (1954), "North by Northwest" (1959), and "Lolita" (1962). His ability to bring depth, sophistication, and complexity to his characters captivated audiences and garnered critical acclaim. Beyond his film career, Mason also dabbled in producing and directing. He co-produced and starred in the acclaimed film "A Star Is Born," showcasing his multifaceted talent and creative vision. Throughout his life, Mason was recognized with numerous awards and nominations, including three Academy Award nominations for Best Actor. He was highly regarded by his peers and critics alike for his impeccable craft and his ability to elevate any production he was a part of.
Filmography (151)
North by Northwest1959
As Phillip Vandamm
TMDb 8.0 / 10
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea1954
As Captain Nemo
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Evil Under the Sun1982
As Odell Gardener
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Verdict1982
As Ed Concannon
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Cold Sweat1970
As Captain Ross
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Journey to the Center of the Earth1959
As Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Cross of Iron1977
As Oberst Brandt
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Boys from Brazil1978
As Eduard Seibert
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Mandingo1975
As Warren Maxwell
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Fall of the Roman Empire1964
As Timonides
TMDb 6.5 / 10
A Star Is Born1954
As Norman Maine
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Julius Caesar1953
As Brutus
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Voyage of the Damned1976
As Dr. Juan Remos
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Heaven Can Wait1978
As Mr. Jordan
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Lord Jim1965
As Gentleman Brown
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Mayerling1968
As Franz Joseph I of Austria
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Yellowbeard1983
As Captain Hughes
TMDb 5.6 / 10
North Sea Hijack1980
As Admiral Brindsen
TMDb 6.3 / 10
5 Fingers1952
As Ulysses Diello
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Blue Max1966
As General Count von Klugermann
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Genghis Khan1965
As Kam Ling
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Kill!1971
As Alan Hamilton
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Caught1949
As Larry Quinada
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Murder by Decree1979
As Dr. Watson
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Prince Valiant1954
As Sir Brack
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel1951
As Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Madame Bovary1949
As Gustave Flaubert
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Odd Man Out1947
As Johnny McQueen
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Last of Sheila1973
As Philip Dexter
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Hotel Reserve1944
As Peter Vadassy
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Passage1979
As Professor Bergson
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Age of Consent1969
As Bradley Morahan
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Kubrick by Kubrick2020
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Bloodline1979
As Sir Alec Nichols
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical2009
As Self (archive)
The Deadly Affair1967
As Charles Dobbs
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman1951
As Hendrick van der Zee
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Tiara Tahiti1962
As Captain Brett Aimsley
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Ivanhoe1982
As Isaac of York
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Prisoner of Zenda1952
As Rupert of Hentzau
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Pumpkin Eater1964
As Bob Conway
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Miser1939
As Valere - In love with Elise
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The MacKintosh Man1973
As Sir George Wheeler
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Desert Rats1953
As Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Great Expectations1974
As Magwitch
TMDb 6.5 / 10
East Side, West Side1949
As Brandon Bourne
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Lady Possessed1952
As Jimmy Del Palma
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Island in the Sun1957
As Maxwell Fleury
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Bad Man's River1971
As Francisco Paco Montero
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Duffy1968
As Charles Calvert
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Night of 100 Stars1982
As Self
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Story of Three Loves1953
As Charles Coutray
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Water Babies1978
As Mr. Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark
TMDb 6.3 / 10
11 Harrowhouse1974
As Charles D. Watts
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Georgy Girl1966
As James Leamington
TMDb 6.2 / 10
A Touch of Larceny1960
As Cmdr. Max Easton
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Bigger Than Life1956
As Ed Avery
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Circle
The Circle1939
As Edward Luton
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Churchill and the Movie Mogul2019
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Trials of Oscar Wilde1960
As Edward Carson
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Shooting Party1985
As Sir Randolph Nettleby
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Frankenstein: The True Story1974
As Dr. John Polidori
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Spring and Port Wine1970
As Rafe Crompton
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Thunder Rock1942
As Streeter
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Alexandre1983
As The Father
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Tell-Tale Heart1953
As Narrator
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Fire Over England1937
As Hillary Vane
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Inside Out1975
As Ernst Furben
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Kidnap Syndicate1975
As Filippini
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Marseille Contract1974
As Jacques Brizard
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Reckless Moment1949
As Martin Donnelly
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Botany Bay1952
As Capt. Paul Gilbert
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Man in Grey1943
As Lord Rohan
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Bob Hope's World of Comedy1976
As Self (archive footage)
The Man Between1953
As Ivo Kern
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Fanny by Gaslight1944
As Lord Manderstoke
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Decks Ran Red1958
As Capt. Edwin Rummill
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Sid & Judy2019
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Secret Mission1942
As Raoul de Carnot
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories2000
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Torpedo Bay1963
As Captain Blayne
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place1960
As Hans Frick
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel1937
As Jean Tallien
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Escape from Zahrain1962
As Johnson
TMDb 6.1 / 10
One Way Street1950
As Dr. Frank Matson
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Cry Terror!1958
As Jim Molner
TMDb 6.5 / 10
John Brown's Raid1960
As John Brown
Charade1953
As The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Fear in the City1976
As Chief of Police
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class1995
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art1983
As Demon
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Sea Gull1968
As Trigorin
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Autobiography of a Princess1975
As Cyril Sahib
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Child's Play1972
As Jerome Malley
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Patient Vanishes1941
As Mick Cardby
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Night Has Eyes1942
As Stephen Deremid
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Assisi Underground1985
As Bishop Nicolini
TMDb 4.8 / 10
They Met in the Dark1943
As Richard Francis Heritage
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Secret of Stamboul1936
As Larry
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Group Madness1983
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Uninhibited1965
As Pascal Regnier
TMDb 6.2 / 10
A Place of One's Own1945
As Henry Smedhurst
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Flower in His Mouth1975
As Avv. Antonio Bellocampo
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Bees on the Boat-Deck
Bees on the Boat-Deck1939
As Robert Patch
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Seventh Veil1945
As Nicholas Cunningham
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The High Command1937
As Capt. Heverell
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Candlelight in Algeria1944
As Alan Thurston
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'1982
As Self / Odell Gardener
TMDb 8.3 / 10
Stranger in the House1967
As John Sawyer
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Wicked Lady1945
As Captain Jerry Jackson
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Alibi1942
As Andre Laurent
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Upturned Glass1947
As Michael Joyce
TMDb 6.8 / 10
A Dangerous Summer1982
As George Engels
TMDb 4.1 / 10
Dr. Fischer of Geneva1984
As Dr. Fischer
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Marriage-Go-Round1961
As Paul Delville
TMDb 4.4 / 10
They Were Sisters1945
As Geoffrey Lee
TMDb 5.5 / 10
House Without Foundation
House Without Foundation1984
As Self - Narrator
Uncertain Verification1965
As (archive footage)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go1974
As Y.Y. Go
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Theatre 62: Rebecca1962
As Maxim de Winter
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Forever, Darling1956
As Guardian Angel
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Ellis in Freedomland1952
As The Refrigerator (voice)
Hatter's Castle1942
As Dr. Renwick
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Face to Face1952
As The Captain
TMDb 6.0 / 10
John Keats: His Life and Death1973
As Narrator
The Bells Go Down1943
As Ted Robbins
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Late Extra1935
As Jim Martin
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Catch as Catch Can
Catch as Catch Can1937
As Robert Leyland
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac1938
As Christian de Neuvillette
TMDb 8.0 / 10
I Met a Murderer1939
As Mark Warrow
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Left Hand of the Law1975
As Senatore Leandri
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Glory of the Garden1982
As Narrator
Troubled Waters
Troubled Waters1936
As John Merriman
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Mill on the Floss1937
As Tom Tulliver
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Halloween Monster Bash1991
As Stephen Deremid (archive footage)
Blind Man's Bluff
Blind Man's Bluff1936
As Stephen Neville
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Prison Breaker1936
As 'Bunny' Barnes
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Moon in the Yellow River
The Moon in the Yellow River1938
As Darrell Blake
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Reformation: Age of Revolt1973
As Narrator
The Popes and Their Art1983
As Presentor
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate1984
As Self
Twice Branded1936
As Henry Hamilton
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Lasseter's Bones2012
As Archival Footage
TMDb 6.4 / 10
People of the Wind1976
As Jafar Qoli (voice)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Hero's Island1962
As Jacob Weber
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Wind in the Wires1972
As Narrator
The London Nobody Knows1968
As Himself - Narrator
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love1977
As Narrator - English version
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Home, James1972
As Self
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Star of Bethlehem1954
As Himself
Filmography and biography: TMDb