James Mason

Cast · Director · Writer

Born

May 15, 1909 · Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees, West Yorkshire], England, UK

Died

July 27, 1984

Birth name

James Neville Mason

James Mason was born in Huddersfield and had a film career spanning over 50 years during which he appeared in over 100 films in England and America but never won an Oscar. Whatever role he played, from the wounded Belfast gunman in Odd Man Out to Rommel in The Desert Fox, his creamy velvet voice gave him away. Like Charlie Chaplin James left the screen to spend his later life living in Switzerland. His first marriage had been to Pamela Kellino, a Yorkshire mill owner's daughter and his second to Australian actress Clarissa Kaye.