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Real name: |
James Neville Mason |
Birthdate: |
May 15, 1909 |
Date of death: |
July 27, 1984 |
Age: |
75 years |
Country: |
United Kingdom
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Horoscope: |
Taurus |
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James Mason Nominations & Awards
Academy Awards
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
Golden Globes Awards
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- Best Leading Actor - Comedy or Musical WINNER
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor - Drama NOMINATED
BAFTA
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- Best British Actor NOMINATED
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- Best British Actor NOMINATED
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
New York Film Critics Circle
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
National Board of Review
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- Best Leading Actor WINNER
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
James Neville Mason, better known as James Mason, was an British. He has won an Golden Globes Awards and an National Board of Review Awards. He's known for The Verdict (1982), Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).
All Movies of James Mason
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This is a spin-off of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, set in 1960s Melbourne. When Phryne Fisher goes missing in New Guinea, her niece, the flighty Peregrine Fisher, inherits her aunt's fortune. She decides to follow in her famous...
2019
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"A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers" will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenalin...
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(archive footage)
2009
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The story takes us back to the 17th century Istanbul, and the powerful times of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, Logari Celebi, Bekri Mustafa and Evliya Celebi are four good friends who ...
1996
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Tiberius
2 episodes, 1985
1985
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This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British nobleman James Mason invites an assorted group of acquaintances for a weekend shooting party on his huge ...
1985
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The early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the Revolutionary War.
1984
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1984
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1983
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1982
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Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discove...
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Odell Gardener
1982
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Sidney Lumet directs Paul Newman as an alcoholic lawyer whose once-promising legal career is on the skids and who gets and one last chance to prove himself in this tense courtroom drama. Frank Galvin (Newman) can't even scare up c...
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Ed Concannon
1982
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A terrorist (Anthony Perkins) holds an offshore drilling rig and production platform for ransom in the North Sea. Ffolkes (Roger Moore) a wealthy mysogynistic eccentric, volunteers to send his crack team of soldiers in to stop the...
1980
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The definitive documentary about the American silent film industry.
1980
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London, 1888: When Scotland Yard is unable to stop the gruesome rampage of Jack The Ripper, a citizens committee asks Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer, in the role that won him Canada’s award for Best Actor) and his trusted ...
1979
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Character:
Richard K. Straker
2 episodes, 1979
1979
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Writer Ben Mears (David Soul, "Starsky and Hutch") returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in Maine where he becomes interested in writing a novel set around the sinister old mansion that overlooks the town. But sud...
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Richard K. Straker
2 episodes, 1979
1979
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During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
1979
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When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
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Sir Alec Nichols
1979
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When a 12-year-old chimney sweep is wrongfully blamed for being a thief, he makes a run for it, and lands head-first into a pool of water. There he encounters a wondrous civilization of underwater creatures who resemble humans in ...
1978
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Olivier stars in this high-tension political thriller as a Nazi-hunter who uncovers the existence of a war criminal (Peck) and his plans to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning Adolph Hitler. Based on the novel by Ira Levin.
1978
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When L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) is plucked from Earth too soon by an overzealous angel, he is sent back to Earth in another, older body. He struggles to regain his old spot in the line-up while straighteni...
1978
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Director Sam Peckinpah's only war movie, "Cross of Iron", is filmed from the perspective of German soldiers lost in a hopeless cause on World War II's Eastern Front. Sergeant Steiner (James Coburn), a well respected squad leader, ...
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Oberst (Col.) Brandt
1977
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Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of t...
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Joseph of Arimathea
4 episodes, 1977
1977
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A boatload of Jewish refugees embark on a freedom journey from Nazi oppression. They are forced to return when they can't get permission to land anywhere.
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Dr. Juan Remos
1976
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This overheated melodrama tells the story of a proud slave-owning family in the antebellum South and their eventual descent into adultery, incest, and sexual congress with those of other races. There's a Southern belle who's a pan...
1975
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Character:
Ernst Furben
1975
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A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some ve
1975
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Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindict...
1974
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Set in Paris, this crime melodrama chronicles the attempts of a U.S. drug agent to stop a major drug-lord. Though the agent realizes his three predecessors have been assassinated, and that the French government doesn't necessarily...
1974
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Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run car accident following a party one night. A year later her multi-millionaire husband, Clinton, invites a group of her friends to spend a week on a his yacht. He's a notorious practical joker and i...
1973
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Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept isolated. He overpowers his gua...
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Sir George Wheeler
1973
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At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
1972
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TV Miniseries (1971). 6 Episodes. The Nile's source was the last great mystery for European explorers in the 19th century. The story of its discovery is one of heroism in the service of faith, greed, and obsession.
1971
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Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
1971
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Joe Martin, a quiet American, lives a quiet life in the South of France renting boats to tourists. He is happily married to Fabienne and has a twelve-year-old daughter named Michèle. But the quiet man has a past: ten years before...
1970
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J C Calvert
1968
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In the 1880s, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (Mason) and his mother Empress Elisabeth (Gardner), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf ...
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Emperor Franz-Josef
1968
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Based on a John le Carre novel and directed by Sidney Lumet, The Deadly Affair is a cold war thriller centred in the world of espionage.
When foreign Office official Samuel Fennan and his wife (Simone Signoret) are anonymously ac...
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Charles Dobbs
1966
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The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country's most honored medal, the Blue Max. The General finds him useful as a hero even though his wife also finds him useful as a love object....
1966
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Georgy has resigned herself to being one of life's accidents. She disapproves somewhat of her father's butlering James Leamington. She's tall, plump, sloppy and wistfully envious of what she conceives to be the life led by her bea...
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James Leamington
1966
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Omar Sharif plays the Mongolian leader Genghis Khan in this epic re-telling of the warlord's life. Escaping from the evil leader Jamuga, who killed his father, Khan becomes a powerful guerilla leader, and soon manages to unite the...
1965
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After distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine, Jim rapidly rises to the rank of second in command of a ship. But because of a broken foot he ends in the Patna, a rusty tub manned by a third-rate crew ...
1965
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Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him i...
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Timonides
1964
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The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depr...
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Conway
1964
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The film is set in the fictional state of Zahrain located in the Arabian Peninsula. The main characters are part of a group of condemned prisoners who flee across the desert in an attempt to reach the Protectorate of Aden. One is ...
1962
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Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of ...
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Prof. Humbert Humbert
1962
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Capt. Brett Aimsley
1962
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TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 191 episodes. The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his s...
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Dr. Maxwell Becker
4 episodes, 1965
1961
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The noted 19th century wit risks social disgrace for love of another man.
1960
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Philandering Commander Max Easton, now desk-bound and under-worked in the Admiralty, finds he suddenly needs to make some money when he falls for American Virginia Killain. When he hatches a plot to disappear in circumstances that...
1959
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Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.
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Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook
1959
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Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly, the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a killer. All of Thornhills attempts to straighten thin...
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Phillip Vandamm
1959
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Danger and suspense sail the high seas in this nautical thriller that some commentators call uncommonly fierce for its time. James Mason portrays Capt. Edwin Rummill, eager to prove himself after being made a ship’s captain for ...
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Capt. Edwin Rummill
1958
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Maxwell Fleury
1957
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Playhouse 90 is a 90-minute dramatic television anthology series, telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1961 for a total of 133 episodes. 'Playhouse 90' was an exceptionally good anthology series, which consistently offered the most presti...