Biography
James Neville Mason, known as James Mason, was an accomplished English actor who made a significant impact on both British and American cinema. He was born on May 15, 1909, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, and passed away on July 27, 1984, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mason's 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 illustri...
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Complete Filmography

Sid & Judy
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, n...

Bob the Builder: Building Sky High
2016
Writer
Bob and his team are ready to build big! Bob is on hand to rescue his friends when Scoop is stranded sky-high and Leo gets trapped in Fixham castle. W...

Lasseter's Bones
2012
as Archival Footage
Australia’s El Dorado was found by Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter – if we believe his claims in the late 1800s to have discovered a vast gold deposit in c...

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
2011
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," shot in Yugoslavia in 1976.

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
2011
In Memory Of
A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," shot in Yugoslavia in 1976.

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
as Self (archive)
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore ho...

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter...

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self (archive footage)
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.

The Assisi Underground
1985
as Bishop Nicolini
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.

The Shooting Party
1985
as Sir Randolph Nettleby
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal d...

Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984
as Dr. Fischer
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for mo...

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984
as Self
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpt...

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1983
as Demon
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the n...

Yellowbeard
1983
as Captain Hughes
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sent...

Group Madness
1983
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

Alexandre
1983
as The Father
Three years ago Ariane left Antoine, sending him a postcard announcing her departure for the mountains with a certain Alexandre. After a long journey ...

The Popes and Their Art
1983
as Presentor
A visit of the art collections of the Vatican Museums with British actor James Mason.

The Verdict
1982
as Ed Concannon
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m...

A Dangerous Summer
1982
as George Engels
Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certa...

The Glory of the Garden
1982
as Narrator
This documentary is a cinematic celebration of how Lionel de Rothschild spent a fortune in creating one of the most spectacular gardens in the world.

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

Evil Under the Sun
1982
as Odell Gardener
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangli...

Ivanhoe
1982
as Isaac of York
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John a...

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982
as Self / Odell Gardener
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.

The Search for Alexander the Great
1981
as Narrator
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

North Sea Hijack
1980
as Admiral Brindsen
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his u...

Bloodline
1979
as Sir Alec Nichols
A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless bo...

The Passage
1979
as Professor Bergson
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 pur...

Murder by Decree
1979
as Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using informat...

The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Eduard Seibert
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Heaven Can Wait
1978
as Mr. Jordan
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to...

The Water Babies
1978
as Mr. Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark
Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young ap...

Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
1977
as Narrator - English version
For over three-quarters of a century, Russian-born Marc Chagall set new standards for modern art with his colorful, heartfelt paintings, murals and st...

Cross of Iron
1977
as Oberst Brandt
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews betw...

Voyage of the Damned
1976
as Dr. Juan Remos
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

People of the Wind
1976
as Jafar Qoli (voice)
The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most hazardous tests of human endurance known to mankind. Every year, 500,000 men, women and children — along wi...

Fear in the City
1976
as Prosecutor
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night p...

The Flower in His Mouth
1975
as Avv. Antonio Bellocampo
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 int...

Inside Out
1975
as Ernst Furben
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a N...

Autobiography of a Princess
1975
as Cyril Sahib
On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movie...

The Left Hand of the Law
1975
as Senatore Leandri
After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent pa...

Kidnap Syndicate
1975
as Filippini
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his...

Mandingo
1975
as Warren Maxwell
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settle...

11 Harrowhouse
1974
as Charles D. Watts
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen...

Frankenstein: The True Story
1974
as Dr. John Polidori
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.

The Marseille Contract
1974
as Jacques Brizard
An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to...

Great Expectations
1974
as Magwitch
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

The MacKintosh Man
1973
as Sir George Wheeler
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate ...

The Last of Sheila
1973
as Philip
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scaveng...

The Reformation: Age of Revolt
1973
as Narrator
This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of ...

John Keats: His Life and Death
1973
as Narrator
Dramatization short on British romantic poet John Keats.

Child's Play
1972
as Jerome Malley
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 ...

Home, James
1972
as Self
Actor James Mason returns to his Huddersfield roots. Harking back to his childhood memories, he remarks how the town has changed and developed but the...

The Wind in the Wires
1972
as Narrator
This documentary recounts the history of modern aviation (primarily in Britain) from roughly 1900 until the inter-war period, using old monochrome foo...

Kill!
1971
as Alan Hamilton
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

Bad Man's River
1971
as Francisco Paco Montero
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government o...

The Search for the Nile
1971
as Narrator
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 o...

Cold Sweat
1970
as Captain Ross
During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross, ...

Spring and Port Wine
1970
as Rafe Crompton
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
1970
as Y.Y. Go
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They consp...

Age of Consent
1969
as Bradley Morahan
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once m...

Age of Consent
1969
Producer
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once m...

The Sea Gull
1968
as Trigorin
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

The London Nobody Knows
1968
as Himself - Narrator
Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, ...

Mayerling
1968
as Franz Joseph I of Austria
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. R...

Duffy
1968
as Charles Calvert
Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth wit...

Cop-Out
1967
as John Sawyer
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is acc...

The Deadly Affair
1967
as Charles Dobbs
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife...

Georgy Girl
1966
as James Leamington
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck...

The Blue Max
1966
as General Count von Klugermann
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

The Uninhibited
1965
as Pascal Regnier
Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their...

Genghis Khan
1965
as Kam Ling
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tr...

Lord Jim
1965
as Gentleman Brown
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in pa...

The Pumpkin Eater
1964
as Bob Conway
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...

The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
as Timonides
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius h...

Torpedo Bay
1963
as Captain Blayne
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral...

Hero's Island
1962
as Jacob Weber
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

Tiara Tahiti
1962
as Captain Brett Aimsley
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their person...

Lolita
1962
as Prof. Humbert Humbert
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at...

Escape from Zahrain
1962
as Johnson
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and th...

Theatre 62: Rebecca
1962
as Maxim de Winter
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

The Marriage-Go-Round
1961
as Paul Delville
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the litt...

John Brown's Raid
1960
as John Brown
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virgini...

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
as Edward Carson
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with th...

A Touch of Larceny
1960
as Cmdr. Max Easton
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that...

Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959
as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

North by Northwest
1959
as Phillip Vandamm
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

The Decks Ran Red
1958
as Capt. Edwin Rummill
A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Cry Terror!
1958
as Jim Molner
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

Island in the Sun
1957
as Maxwell Fleury
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

Bigger Than Life
1956
as Ed Avery
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Bigger Than Life
1956
Producer, Additional Writing
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Forever, Darling
1956
as The Guardian Angel
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can se...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
as Captain Nemo
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

The Star of Bethlehem
1954
as Himself
James Mason and his wife Pamela read sections from the bible that lead up to the birth of Jesus. James Mason then visits his daughter in bed and their...

The Star of Bethlehem
1954
Director, Producer
James Mason and his wife Pamela read sections from the bible that lead up to the birth of Jesus. James Mason then visits his daughter in bed and their...

A Star Is Born
1954
as Norman Maine
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Prince Valiant
1954
as Sir Brack
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
The Child
1954
Director
In 1908, lonely middle-aged spinster Janet reluctantly bids farewell to a young relative, a schoolboy, who has spent a brief holiday with her. Janet, ...

The Tell-Tale Heart
1953
as Narrator
One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his l...

The Man Between
1953
as Ivo Kern
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Charade
1953
as The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson
This is an anthology film with three stories. In "Portrait of a Murderer", a female artist draws sketches of a mysterious neighbor. She is unaware tha...

Charade
1953
Producer, Writer
This is an anthology film with three stories. In "Portrait of a Murderer", a female artist draws sketches of a mysterious neighbor. She is unaware tha...

Julius Caesar
1953
as Brutus
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.

The Desert Rats
1953
as Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important p...

The Story of Three Loves
1953
as Charles Coutray
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

Botany Bay
1952
as Capt. Paul Gilbert
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving ...

The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
as Rupert of Hentzau
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

Face to Face
1952
as The Captain
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a...

Ellis in Freedomland
1952
as The Refrigerator (voice)
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second...

5 Fingers
1952
as Ulysses Diello
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Lady Possessed
1952
as Jimmy Del Palma
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, th...

Lady Possessed
1952
Screenplay, Producer
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, th...

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951
as Hendrik van der Zee
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hend...

One Way Street
1950
as Dr. Frank Matson
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

East Side, West Side
1949
as Brandon Bourne
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

The Reckless Moment
1949
as Martin Donnelly
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Madame Bovary
1949
as Gustave Flaubert
A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.

Caught
1949
as Larry Quinada
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, vio...

The Upturned Glass
1947
as Michael Joyce
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the wo...

The Upturned Glass
1947
Producer
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the wo...

Odd Man Out
1947
as Johnny McQueen
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

The Wicked Lady
1945
as Captain Jerry Jackson
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

The Seventh Veil
1945
as Nicholas Cunningham
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

They Were Sisters
1945
as Geoffrey Lee
The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriag...

A Place of One's Own
1945
as Henry Smedhurst
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However,...

Hotel Reserve
1944
as Peter Vadassy
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Fanny by Gaslight
1944
as Lord Manderstoke
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds ...

Candlelight in Algeria
1944
as Alan Thurston
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follo...

They Met in the Dark
1943
as Richard Francis Heritage
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court m...

The Man in Grey
1943
as Lord Rohan
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school ent...

The Bells Go Down
1943
as Ted Robbins
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London ...

Thunder Rock
1942
as Streeter
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his payc...

Secret Mission
1942
as Raoul de Carnot
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in sear...

Alibi
1942
as Andre Laurent
In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.

The Night Has Eyes
1942
as Stephen Deremid
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they ...

Hatter's Castle
1942
as Dr. Renwick
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embra...

The Patient Vanishes
1941
as Mick Cardby
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackma...
The Circle
1939
as Edward Luton
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesso...

The Miser
1939
as Valere - In love with Elise
Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière.

I Met a Murderer
1939
as Mark Warrow
An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.

I Met a Murderer
1939
Story
An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.
Bees on the Boat-Deck
1939
as Robert Patch
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.
The Moon in the Yellow River
1938
as Darrell Blake
Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.
Cyrano de Bergerac
1938
as Christian de Neuvillette
Inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, this 1938 BBC Television studio production retells the comic and heroic drama of the 17th-century Gascon sword...

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1937
as Jean Tallien
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but noth...

The High Command
1937
as Capt. Heverell
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

Catch as Catch Can
1937
as Robert Leyland
Undercover agent Robert Leyland entraps crooks trying to sneak expensive goods past customs on transatlantic crossings. After Leyland falls for reluc...

Fire Over England
1937
as Hillary Vane
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the ti...

The Mill on the Floss
1937
as Tom Tulliver
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owne...

Secret of Stamboul
1936
as Larry
A man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.

Twice Branded
1936
as Henry Hamilton
A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him.
Blind Man's Bluff
1936
as Stephen Neville
A formerly blind scientist continues to feign his condition in order to thwart his philandering wife's romantic plans.
Troubled Waters
1936
as John Merriman
James Mason is teamed up once again with Virginia Cherill whom he appeared with in his debut film, 'Late Extra'. He plays a government agent (John Mer...

Prison Breaker
1936
as 'Bunny' Barnes
A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds hi...

Late Extra
1935
as Jim Martin
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.