James Mason

biography:
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.

The Merv Griffin Show

character: Self

original_name: The Merv Griffin Show

General Electric Theater

overview: General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

character: Wayne Sebastian

original_name: General Electric Theater

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

overview: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

character: Captain Vialez

original_name: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Lux Video Theatre

overview: Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

character: Self - Host

original_name: Lux Video Theatre

Stoney Burke

overview: Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-0, Jack Lord starred in the title role.

character: The Derelict

original_name: Stoney Burke

The Steve Allen Show

original_name: The Steve Allen Show

Jesus of Nazareth

overview: Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.

character: Joseph of Arimathea

original_name: Jesus of Nazareth

origin_country: IT GB

Salem's Lot

overview: Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

character: Richard K. Straker

original_name: Salem's Lot

George Washington

overview: This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.

character: Gen. Edward Braddock

original_name: George Washington

Dr. Kildare

overview: 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 specialty, internal medicine.

character: Dr. Maxwell Becker

original_name: Dr. Kildare

Panic!

overview: A short-lived anthology series narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis. Each episode tells its own thriller story and featured its own unique cast.

original_name: Panic!

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

overview: The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.

character: Henry Chambers

original_name: The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Talking Pictures

overview: A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.

original_name: Talking Pictures

Appointment With Destiny

character: Narrator

original_name: Appointment With Destiny

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Bob Hope Show

overview: The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.

original_name: The Bob Hope Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.

In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Ed Sullivan Show

Unknown Chaplin

overview: A documentary series examining the film making methods and techniques of Charles Chaplin. Featuring previously unseen footage from Chaplin's private film archive.

character: Narrator (voice)

original_name: Unknown Chaplin

A.D.

overview:
A.D. is a 1985 television drama miniseries created and written by Vincenzo Labella and Anthony Burgess, based on Burgess' historical novel The Kingdom of the Wicked. The five-part serial is considered the third and final part of a trilogy, preceded by Moses the Lawgiver (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977).

Set just after Jesus' Crucifixion, the lives and adventures of His disciples are explored, and events in Rome during the reigns of Emperors Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

character: Tiberius

Hollywood

overview: A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.

character: Self - Narrator

original_name: Hollywood

V.I.P. Schaukel

overview: V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.

original_name: V.I.P. Schaukel

original_language: de

What's My Line?

overview: Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

original_name: What's My Line?

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

overview: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.

original_name: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

The Mike Douglas Show

overview: The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

original_name: The Mike Douglas Show

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

overview:
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night.

During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

original_name: Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Frankenstein: The True Story

overview: Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.

character: Dr. John Polidori

original_name: Frankenstein: The True Story

Apropos Film

original_name: Apropos Film

origin_country: DE AT

ABC Stage 67

overview:
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals.

It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program.

Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar.

ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967.

"Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.

character: Otto Hoffman

original_name: ABC Stage 67

The Search for the Nile

overview:
The Search for the Nile is a 1971 BBC One docudrama miniseries about the 19th-century European quest to find the source of the Nile River, focusing on explorers like Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, and David Livingstone.

The acclaimed six-part series, starring Kenneth Haigh as Burton, is known for its detailed portrayal of the explorers' hardships, rivalries, and discoveries, winning a Primetime Emmy and a Peabody Award.

original_name: The Search for the Nile

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

overview: A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

character: Warren Barrow

original_name: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Origins of the Mafia

overview: Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.

character: Vianisi

original_name: Alle origini della mafia

original_language: it

Film '72

overview: The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

original_name: Film '72

The Search for Alexander the Great

overview: Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

Deutsch

biography:
James Neville Mason (* 15. Mai 1909 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England; † 27. Juli 1984 in Lausanne, Schweiz) war ein englischer Filmschauspieler.

James Mason studierte Architektur in Cambridge. Nach dem Abschluss 1931 ging er zunächst zur Bühne und arbeitete ab 1935 auch beim Film. Lange Jahre war er hauptsächlich in quota quickies, billig hergestellten Filmen, finanziert aus Geldern der öffentlichen Filmförderung, zu sehen.  Mit The Man in Grey wurde er ab 1943 zum kassenstärksten männlichen Kinostar Großbritanniens.

Der überwältigende Erfolg des Films begründete das neue Genre des Gainsborough Gothic. In diesen Kostümfilmen, die hauptsächlich vom Filmstudio Gainsborough Pictures produziert wurden, war die Heldin meist unwissentlich Trägerin eines Geheimnisses und wurde im Verlauf der Handlung durch einen verkommenen Adligen – zumeist gespielt von James Mason – großen Qualen ausgesetzt .Durch Filme wie Fanny im Gaslicht von 1944 an der Seite von Phyllis Calvert und Der letzte Schleier etablierte sich Mason durch Rollen als geheimnisvoller Mann, der auf Frauen gefährlich und anziehend zugleich wirkte. Der Erfolg von Ausgestoßen ebnete Mason 1947 den Weg nach Hollywood durch einen Vertrag bei Walter Wanger.

In Hollywood stand Mason zwar im Gegensatz zu seiner Stellung in der britischen Filmindustrie nie an der absoluten Spitze der Kassenmagneten, erhielt aber dennoch Hauptrollen in vielen prestigeträchtigen Filmen.

Großen Erfolg hatte Mason 1951 in Pandora und der Fliegende Holländer, der mittlerweile als Kultfilm gilt, und im selben Jahr als Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel in Rommel, der Wüstenfuchs von 1951, eine Rolle, die er 1953 ein weiteres Mal in Die Wüstenratten verkörperte. Weitere bekannte Hauptrollen spielte er in den Jules-Verne-Verfilmungen 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer als Kapitän Nemo und als Professor Oliver Lindenbrook in Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde von 1959. Ansonsten war er nach 1950 hauptsächlich in Nebenrollen zu sehen, so an der Seite von Stewart Granger und Deborah Kerr in Im Schatten der Krone aus dem Jahr 1952 und sowie 1959 in Alfred Hitchcocks Der unsichtbare Dritte als Gegenspieler von Cary Grant. Weitere Arbeiten waren 1954 seine Darstellung eines alkoholkranken Filmstars in Ein neuer Stern am Himmel an der Seite von Judy Garland, für die Mason eine Oscar-Nominierung in der Kategorie Bester Hauptdarsteller erhielt, sowie Stanley Kubricks Lolita, die Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Romans von Vladimir Nabokov 1962, in der er in der Hauptrolle des pädophilen Literaturwissenschaftlers Humbert Humbert zu sehen war.

Im Verlaufe der 1960er-Jahre verlegte sich Mason altersbedingt zusehends auf Charakterrollen und war nun häufiger Nebendarsteller. 1966 verkörperte er den väterlichen Freund von Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl, was ihm eine Oscar-Nominierung einbrachte. Beginnend mit Anruf für einen Toten (1967) drehte er eine Reihe von Filmen unter Regie von Sidney Lumet. 1981 gehörte Mason zur Starbesetzung der Agatha-Christie-Verfilmung Das Böse unter der Sonne mit Peter Ustinov als Hercule Poirot. Mason arbeitete praktisch bis zu seinem Tod als Schauspieler: Der Film Die letzte Jagd sowie die Fernsehproduktion Dr. Fischer aus Genf nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Graham Greene, in denen er vor seinem Tod noch mitwirkte, wurden 1985 postum herausgebracht.

Pусский

Джеймс Мейсон

biography: Английский актёр, сценарист и продюсер. Полное имя - Джеймс Невилл Мэйсон. Джеймс Мейсон получил образование в колледже Марлборо и учился на архитектора на факультете Питерхаус Кембриджского университета, где в свободное время участвовал в театральных постановках. Он никогда не учился актёрскому мастерству и начинал играть ради собственного удовольствия. После Кембриджа он поступил в лондонский театр Олд Вик. Достигнув успеха и мирового признания благодаря ролям в британских и американских фильмах, Мэйсон на протяжении всей своей карьеры оставался значительной фигурой в кинематографе. По три раза номинирован на «Оскар» и «Золотой глобус» (один из которых выиграл), а также дважды был удостоен номинации на премию BAFTA. Снимался в фильмах «Юлий Цезарь», «20 000 лье под водой», «К северу через северо-запад», «Лолита», «Иисус из Назарета», «Небеса могут подождать», «Наша эра» и других. Актёр очень любил животных, особенно кошек. Он и его жена Памела Мэйсон создали книгу «Кошки в нашей жизни», опубликованную в 1949 году. Джеймс Мэйсон написал большую часть книги, а также проиллюстрировал её. В ней он рассказывал юмористические, а иногда и трогательные истории про кошек и нескольких собак. Его автобиография «Прежде, чем я забуду» была опубликована в 1981 году. Умер в своём доме в Лозанне, Швейцария, от второго инфаркта миокарда.

Català

biography: James Neville Mason (Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 15 de maig de 1909 - Lausana, Suïssa, 27 de juliol de 1984) fou un actor de teatre i cinema anglès. Dins de la generació d'actors britànics que van adquirir notorietat durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, James Mason va ser un dels més destacats. Es va fer conegut per la seva capacitat d'interpretar personatges tèrbols, de moral ambigua i/o turmentats, tot i que al llarg de la seva prolífica carrera va demostrar ser un actor sòlid i versàtil.

普通话

詹姆斯·梅森

biography:
詹姆斯·内维尔·梅森，又名詹姆斯·梅森，是一位多才多艺的英国演员，对英美电影都产生了重大影响。他于 1909 年 5 月 15 日出生于英国约克郡哈德斯菲尔德，1984 年 7 月 27 日在瑞士洛桑去世。

梅森的演艺生涯始于 1930 年代，他最初因在伦敦西区的舞台表演而获得认可。他于 1935 年凭借英国电影《Late Extra》首次亮相，标志着他辉煌的银幕之旅的开始。

在他的整个职业生涯中，梅森展示了他非凡的表演能力，经常描绘复杂和道德模棱两可的角色。他威风凛凛的气势、独特的嗓音和多才多艺的音域使他能够毫不费力地在各种类型之间转换，从戏剧到惊悚片，甚至是时代作品。

梅森最受赞誉的表演之一是在 1945 年，当时他在电影《奇怪的人》中饰演陷入困境和神秘的约翰尼·麦昆。他对受伤的爱尔兰民族主义者的刻画为他赢得了广泛的赞誉，并使他成为受人尊敬的领袖人物。

梅森著名的电影作品包括在《恶女》（1945 年）、《潘多拉与飞翔的荷兰人》（1951 年）、《一个明星的诞生》（1954 年）、《西北偏北》（1959 年）和《洛丽塔》（1962 年）等电影中扮演令人难忘的角色。他为角色带来深度、复杂性和复杂性的能力吸引了观众并获得了评论界的赞誉。

除了电影生涯，梅森还涉足制片和导演。他联合制作并主演了广受好评的电影《一个明星的诞生》，展示了他多方面的才华和创意视野。

在他的一生中，梅森获得了无数奖项和提名，包括三项奥斯卡最佳男主角提名。他因其无可挑剔的技艺和提升他所参与的任何作品的能力而受到同行和评论家的高度评价。

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James Mason

biography:
James Neville Mason, conocido como James Mason, fue un consumado actor inglés que tuvo un impacto significativo en el cine británico y estadounidense. Nació el 15 de mayo de 1909 en Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Inglaterra, y falleció el 27 de julio de 1984 en Lausana, Suiza.

La carrera como actor de Mason comenzó en la década de 1930, donde inicialmente obtuvo reconocimiento por sus representaciones teatrales en el West End de Londres. Hizo su debut cinematográfico en 1935 con la película británica "Late Extra", que marcó el inicio de su ilustre viaje en la pantalla.

A lo largo de su carrera, Mason mostró sus excepcionales habilidades interpretativas, interpretando a menudo personajes complejos y moralmente ambiguos. Su presencia imponente, su voz distintiva y su rango versátil le permitieron realizar una transición sin esfuerzo entre géneros, desde dramas hasta thrillers e incluso piezas de época.

Una de las actuaciones más aclamadas de Mason se produjo en 1945, cuando interpretó al problemático y enigmático Johnny McQueen en la película "Odd Man Out". Su interpretación del nacionalista irlandés herido le valió elogios generalizados y lo estableció como un protagonista respetado.

La notable filmografía de Mason incluye papeles memorables en películas como "The Wicked Lady" (1945), "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" (1951), "A Star Is Born" (1954), "North by Northwest" (1959) y "Lolita" (1962). Su capacidad para aportar profundidad, sofisticación y complejidad a sus personajes cautivó al público y obtuvo elogios de la crítica.

Más allá de su carrera cinematográfica, Mason también incursionó en la producción y dirección. Coprodujo y protagonizó la aclamada película "A Star Is Born", mostrando su talento multifacético y su visión creativa.

A lo largo de su vida, Mason fue reconocido con numerosos premios y nominaciones, incluidas tres nominaciones al Premio de la Academia como Mejor Actor. Fue muy apreciado tanto por sus compañeros como por los críticos por su impecable arte y su capacidad para elevar cualquier producción en la que formara parte.

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占士·美臣

biography:
占士·美臣，是一位多才多藝的英國演員，對英美電影都產生了重大影響。他於 1909 年 5 月 15 日出生於英國約克郡哈德斯菲爾德，1984 年 7 月 27 日在瑞士洛桑去世。

美臣的演藝生涯始於 1930 年代，他最初因在倫敦西區的舞台表演而獲得認可。他於 1935 年憑藉英國電影《Late Extra》首次亮相，標誌著他輝煌的銀幕之旅的開始。

在他的整個職業生涯中，美臣展示了他非凡的表演能力，經常描繪複雜和道德模稜兩可的角色。他威風凜凜的氣勢、獨特的嗓音和多才多藝的音域使他能夠毫不費力地在各種類型之間轉換，從戲劇到驚栗片，甚至是時代作品。

美臣最受讚譽的表演之一是在 1947 年，當時他在電影《法網情絲》（Odd Man Out）中飾演陷入困境和神秘的 Johnny McQueen 。他對受傷的愛爾蘭民族主義者的刻畫為他贏得了廣泛的讚譽，並使他成為受人尊敬的領袖人物。

美臣著名的電影作品包括在《毒婦蛇心》（The Wicked Lady）（1945 年）、《再世孽緣》（Pandora and the Flying Dutchman）（1951 年）、《星海浮沉錄》（A Star Is Born）（1954 年）、《奪魄驚魂》（North by Northwest）（1959 年）和《一樹梨花壓海棠》（Lolita）（1962 年）等電影中扮演令人難忘的角色。他為角色帶來深度、複雜性和複雜性的能力吸引了觀眾並獲得了評論界的讚譽。

除了電影生涯，美臣還涉足製片和導演。他聯合製作並主演了廣受好評的電影《星海浮沉錄》，展示了他多方面的才華和創意視野。

在他的一生中，美臣獲得了無數獎項和提名，包括三項奧斯卡最佳男主角提名。他因其無可挑剔的技藝和提升他所參與的任何作品的能力而受到同行和評論家的高度評價。

Português

James Mason

biography:
James Neville Mason (15 de maio de 1909 – 27 de julho de 1984) foi um ator inglês. Ele alcançou considerável sucesso no cinema britânico antes de se tornar uma estrela em Hollywood. Ao longo de sua carreira, foi indicado a três Oscars, três Globos de Ouro (vencendo uma vez) e dois prêmios BAFTA .

Mason começou sua carreira como ator de teatro no West End, antes de fazer a transição para papéis de protagonista em filmes no início da década de 1940. Ele foi o ator mais assistido nas bilheterias do Reino Unido em 1944 e 1945; seus filmes britânicos incluíram "The Seventh Veil" (1945) e " The Wicked Lady" (1945). Ele estrelou "Odd Man Out" (1947), o primeiro filme britânico a receber o prêmio BAFTA de Melhor Filme Britânico .

Na década seguinte, Mason mudou-se para os Estados Unidos e estrelou filmes como Nasce Uma Estrela (1954), de George Cukor, pelo qual ganhou o Globo de Ouro de Melhor Ator em Filme de Comédia ou Musical; Intriga Internacional (1959), de Alfred Hitchcock; Lolita (1962), de Stanley Kubrick; O Céu Pode Esperar (1978), de Warren Beatty; e O Veredito (1982), de Sidney Lumet .

Ele também estrelou diversos filmes britânicos e americanos de sucesso entre as décadas de 1950 e 1980, incluindo: A Raposa do Deserto (1951), Júlio César (1953), Vinte Mil Léguas Submarinas (1954), Maior que a Vida (1956), Viagem ao Centro da Terra (1959), Georgy Girl (1966), Primavera e Vinho do Porto (1970) e Os Meninos do Brasil (1978). Após sua morte em 1984, suas cinzas foram sepultadas perto do túmulo de seu amigo íntimo, o também ator inglês Sir Charlie Chaplin .

български език

Джеймс Мейсън

biography:
Джеймс Мейсън (1909–1984) е емблематичен британски актьор, известен със своя специфичен плътен глас и способността си да пресъздава сложни, често меланхолични или противоречиви образи.  Ранен живот и образование:

Роден: 15 май 1909 г. в Хъдърсфийлд, Англия.

Образование: Завършва архитектура в Кеймбриджкия университет, но по време на следването си се увлича по театъра и решава да преследва актьорска кариера.  Професионална кариера:

Начало: Дебютира на театралната сцена в Лондон през 1933 г., а в киното през 1935 г. с филма Late Extra.

Британски успех: През 40-те години се превръща в най-голямата звезда на британското кино с роли във филми като The Seventh Veil (1945) и Odd Man Out (1947).

Холивуд: Премества се в САЩ, където утвърждава статута си на световна звезда. Сред най-значимите му роли са:

„Родил се е звезда“ (A Star Is Born, 1954) – за която получава номинация за „Оскар“.

„Север-северозапад“ (North by Northwest, 1959) на Алфред Хичкок.

„Лолита“ (Lolita, 1962) на Стенли Кубрик, където играе Хумберт Хумберт.

„20 000 левги под водата“ (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954) в ролята на капитан Немо.

Признание: Номиниран е за три награди „Оскар“ и печели „Златен глобус“.  Личен живот и смърт:

Семейство: Има два брака – с Памела Келино (1941–1964) и с австралийската актриса Клариса Кей (от 1971 г. до смъртта си).

Интересен факт: Мейсън открива и помага за съхранението на изгубени филми на Бъстър Кийтън, които намира в старата къща на комика в Холивуд.  Умира от инфаркт на 27 юли 1984 г. в Лозана, Швейцария. Погребан е близо до своя приятел Чарли Чаплин.

also_known_as:
Джеймс Мейсон
James Neville Mason
Джеймс Невилл Мэйсон
Джеймс Мэйсон
جیمز میسون

title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

overview: A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

title: North by Northwest

overview: Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

title: The Man Between

overview: 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.

title: Bloodline

overview: A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.

title: Lolita

overview: 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 the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

title: A Star Is Born

overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

title: Frankenstein: The True Story

title: Evil Under the Sun

overview: An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

title: Cross of Iron

overview: 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 between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

title: Genghis Khan

overview: 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 tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.

title: Cry Terror!

overview: A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

title: The Search for Alexander the Great

title: Lord Jim

overview: 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 partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.

title: Fire Over England

overview: 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 title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

overview: A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.

title: The Wind in the Wires

overview: This documentary recounts the history of modern aviation (primarily in Britain) from roughly 1900 until the inter-war period, using old monochrome footage of original aircraft, contemporary color footage of replica planes in flight as well as a number of photographs of famous aviators.

title: John Keats: His Life and Death

overview: Dramatization short on British romantic poet John Keats.

title: Journey to the Center of the Earth

overview: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

title: The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

overview: Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.

original_title: The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

title: James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

overview: Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.

original_title: James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

title: Yellowbeard

overview: 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 sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.

title: The Verdict

overview: 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 medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

title: Heaven Can Wait

overview: 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 heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

title: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

overview: The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

title: The Last of Sheila

overview: 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 scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

title: The MacKintosh Man

overview: A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

title: Bigger Than Life

overview: A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

title: Murder by Decree

overview: 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 information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have their roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.

title: The Water Babies

overview: 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 apprentice, Tom, for the crime. Tom runs away and jumps into a river where, instead of drowning, he finds himself transformed into a mystical aquatic creature. Swimming and breathing effortlessly, he discovers a colorful underwater world replete with creatures both cruel and kind.

title: The Reckless Moment

overview: After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

title: Forever, Darling

overview: 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 see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes an obstacle course for him.

title: The Prisoner of Zenda

overview: A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

title: The Wicked Lady

overview: A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

title: One Way Street

overview: After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

title: The Desert Rats

overview: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.

title: A Place of One's Own

overview: 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, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.

title: Cold Sweat

overview: During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross, jailed for black marketeering. Together with Ross' cohorts Joe agrees to escape with them, but things go wrong and a policeman is killed. An appalled Joe escapes by himself, abandoning the others, who are recaptured. Years later Joe has a boat rental business where he is found by Ross. Now a wanted drug smuggler he wants the use of Joe's boats and to ensure his cooperation, they kidnap his wife and daughter.

title: The Man in Grey

overview: 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 enters an affair with her husband.

title: The Deadly Affair

overview: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

title: Georgy Girl

overview: A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck-up roommate Meredith.

title: Island in the Sun

overview: A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

title: Caught

overview: Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.

title: Odd Man Out

overview: Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

title: The Seventh Veil

overview: A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

title: Mandingo

overview: Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.

title: Madame Bovary

overview: In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

title: The Boys from Brazil

overview: Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.

title: Mayerling

overview: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that doesn't realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales, later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief. Rudolf finds refuge from a loveless marriage with Princess Stéphanie by taking a mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera. Their untimely demise at Mayerling, the imperial family's hunting lodge, is cloaked in mystery.

title: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

overview: 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 Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

title: Prince Valiant

overview: A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

title: Theatre 62: Rebecca

overview: A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

title: Ivanhoe

overview: 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 and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.

title: The Fall of the Roman Empire

overview: 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 has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.

title: Julius Caesar

overview: The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

title: Great Expectations

overview: Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

title: Age of Consent

overview: 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 more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.

title: The London Nobody Knows

overview: Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.

title: The Passage

overview: 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.

title: The Blue Max

overview: 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.

title: The Pumpkin Eater

overview: Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.

title: Child's Play

overview: 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.

title: The Marseille Contract

overview: 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 his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.

title: Secret Mission

overview: 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 search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.

title: They Met in the Dark

overview: 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 martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.

title: Kidnap Syndicate

overview: 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 child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.

original_title: La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori

title: I Met a Murderer

overview: An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.

title: Duffy

overview: Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.

title: Hatter's Castle

overview: The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.

title: The Shooting Party

overview: 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 decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.

title: The Moon in the Yellow River

overview: Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.

title: Cyrano de Bergerac

overview: Inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, this 1938 BBC Television studio production retells the comic and heroic drama of the 17th-century Gascon swordsman, poet, and philosopher, Cyrano de Bergerac (1990). Secretly and passionately in love with beautiful Roxane, Cyrano, who is embarrassed by his elongated nose, is shocked to find out that she has fallen head-over-heels in love with the handsome but superficial recruit to the Cadets de Gascogne, Christian de Neuvillette. As a result, convinced that he stands no chance against the handsome but tongue-tied suitor, Cyrano steps aside and becomes Christian's tutor in the delicate matters of love, composing poems and ardent letters to help him woo Roxane.

title: The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

overview: An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.

title: The Upturned Glass

overview: 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 woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.

title: 5 Fingers

overview: During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

title: Inside Out

overview: 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 Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.

title: A Touch of Larceny

overview: 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 will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.

title: The Flower in His Mouth

overview: 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 very sinister secrets.

title: Thunder Rock

overview: David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.

title: Bad Man's River

overview: Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.

title: Hotel Reserve

overview: A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

title: Bees on the Boat-Deck

overview: Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

title: Fear in the City

overview: 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 picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.

title: The Miser

overview: Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière.

title: The Circle

overview: 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 lesson without endangering their marriage.

title: East Side, West Side

overview: A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

title: The Marriage-Go-Round

overview: An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit.  Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!

title: The Night Has Eyes

overview: Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

title: The Tell-Tale Heart

overview: A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

title: Uncertain Verification

overview: A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

title: The Decks Ran Red

overview: A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

title: Fanny by Gaslight

overview: 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 that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.

title: Tiara Tahiti

overview: 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 personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.

title: The Story of Three Loves

overview: Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

title: A Dangerous Summer

overview: 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 certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.

title: Spring and Port Wine

overview: 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.

title: Escape from Zahrain

overview: 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 the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was involved in embezzlement, Anthony Caruso as a slimy psychotic and the underrated Madlyn Rhue as a nurse who becomes emotionally involved in the proceedings.

title: Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love

overview: For over three-quarters of a century, Russian-born Marc Chagall set new standards for modern art with his colorful, heartfelt paintings, murals and stained glass works. In rare filmed interviews and looks at his creations Chagall's devotion to his Jewish heritage and his love of humanity is shown.

title: They Were Sisters

overview: The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.

title: Alibi

overview: In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.

title: The Sea Gull

overview: Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

title: Botany Bay

overview: 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 torturous voyage with other prisoners to the new penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.

title: The High Command

overview: A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde

overview: England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.

title: Candlelight in Algeria

overview: Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands

title: Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

overview: 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 nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.

title: The Left Hand of the Law

overview: 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 path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...

original_title: La Polizia Interviene: Ordine Di Uccidere

title: Hero's Island

overview: A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

title: Stranger in the House

overview: 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 accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.

title: Kill!

overview: Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

title: The Secret of Stamboul

overview: A man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.

title: The Bells Go Down

overview: 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 under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.

title: The Assisi Underground

overview: 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.

title: Face to Face

overview: 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 short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Robert Preston, is adapted from Stephen Crane's short story.

title: 11 Harrowhouse

overview: 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 from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.

title: Lady Possessed

overview: 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, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?

title: Late Extra

overview: A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.

title: The Uninhibited

overview: 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 relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.

title: Troubled Waters

overview: 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 Merriman) who makes a few enquiries and follows leads. Cherill plays June Elkhardt.

title: The Mill on the Floss

overview: 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 owner with financial ruin.

title: Prison Breaker

overview: 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 himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..

title: Blind Man's Bluff

overview: A formerly blind scientist continues to feign his condition in order to thwart his philandering wife's romantic plans.

title: Lasseter's Bones

overview: 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 central Australia. This mysterious place has never again been found, and many believe it doesn’t exist. But one thing is certain: Lasseter was a larger-than-life character.  Seen by some as an eccentric conman, he was ridiculed for his extravagant assertions, which he held until his tragic end. But Lasseter remains the embodiment of the Australian folk hero, who lived a life full of incredible adventures, tall tales and outrageous claims – including a possible faked death and his insistence that he designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

title: Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

overview: 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 night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.

original_title: Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

title: The Reformation: Age of Revolt

overview: This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of Martin Luther as a part and/of these conditions as indications of future trends.

title: Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

overview: The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.

title: Autobiography of a Princess

overview: On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.

title: Home, James

overview: 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 people have remained the same.

title: North Sea Hijack

overview: 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 unique commando unit to stop them.

title: Torpedo Bay

overview: 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 port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.

title: Alexandre

overview: Three years ago Ariane left Antoine, sending him a postcard announcing her departure for the mountains with a certain Alexandre. After a long journey abroad, Antoine returns to the site of his former relationship, where he meets Alfred, recently abandoned by Ariane.

title: The Patient Vanishes

overview: 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 blackmailers.

title: Charade

overview: 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 that the man is a murderer. "Duel at Dawn" is set in 1880s Austria. Two military officers fight a duel, with the survivor free to claim the heart of their shared love interest. "The Midas Touch" is a romance story of sorts. Jonah Watson is a successful American businessman, but is disgruntled with his life. He emigrates to England to start a new life, and works as a common servant. But he falls in love with a cockney maid who dreams of marrying into wealth.

character: The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson

title: Group Madness

overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

title: Voyage of the Damned

overview: A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

title: Twice Branded

overview: A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him.

title: Sid & Judy

overview: Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.

title: Ellis in Freedomland

overview: Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."

title: The Popes and Their Art

overview: A visit of the art collections of the Vatican Museums with British actor James Mason.

title: Catch as Catch Can

overview: Undercover agent Robert Leyland entraps crooks trying to sneak expensive goods past customs on transatlantic crossings.  After Leyland falls for reluctant smuggler Barbara Standish, he convinces her to return with him to France with her cache of diamonds.  But she is unaware of a network of thieves onboard their ship, competing against each other to make off with her jewels.

title: Dr. Fischer of Geneva

overview: Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?

title: The Star of Bethlehem

overview: 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 discussion leads into an enactment of the Nativity starring a cast of children.

title: People of the Wind

overview: 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 with one million animals — struggle for eight grueling weeks to scale the massive Zagros Mountains — a range which is as high as the Alps and as broad as Switzerland — to reach their summer pastures.

title: The Glory of the Garden

overview: 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.

title: Night of 100 Stars

overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall.  The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like.  Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J.  ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

title: Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

overview: During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore how the post-war years were alive with bold experimentation in musical film. Later in the decade, Rock & Roll became the musical choice of the younger generation and movie musicals followed suit. Highlights of this 2-part program include: Films based on smash Broadway musicals become the rage. A pretty starlet with no musical training named Marilyn Monroe takes the country by storm in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." With favorites from the previous decade continue to delight audiences: Rock & Roll films, songs and musical numbers.

original_title: Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

title: John Brown's Raid

overview: 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, Virginia. Based on true events.

title: Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place

overview: In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.

title: Kubrick by Kubrick

overview: American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also one of the most reserved, gave few interviews throughout his long career, and none of them were filmed. A first-person journey through his life and work, based on a recorded conversation with French film critic Michel Climent.

title: Bob Hope's World of Comedy

overview: Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV  The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs!  On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sketch comedy and zingers. Featuring Bob's funniest moments on television, this tribute includes a virtual who's who of legendary entertainers like Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Newhart, Lucille Ball, Ann-Margret, Jack Benny, Angie Dickinson, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Danny Thomas, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Redd Foxx, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Dyan Cannon, Debbie Reynolds, Lassie and more.

title: Halloween Monster Bash

overview: 1991's NBC Halloween special with John Astin and Rhonda Shear. Features clips from classic horror movies with commentary.

title: Churchill and the Movie Mogul

overview: Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of Britain's most celebrated film producers, Alexander Korda, signed Churchill up as a screenwriter and historical advisor. It was the start of a unique collaboration. Churchill provided script notes for Korda's productions and penned an epic screenplay. When war broke out, their collaboration took on national importance. Korda was sent on a mission to Hollywood to help bring America into the war, with positive results. With access to previously undiscovered documents, this film documentary examines that mission and a friendship that underpinned a unique, creative partnership.

title: House Without Foundation

overview: Presented and narrated by James Mason, the world famous actor and UN ambassador.  A film about the fate of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Film produced in collaboration with UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

title: Bigger Than Life

title: The Upturned Glass

title: Lady Possessed

title: Lady Possessed

title: Bigger Than Life

title: Bob the Builder: Building Sky High

overview: 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. We meet the Spring City Rockets at an outdoor movie space and Scoop mixes a crazy concrete creation inspired by Chef Tattie's milkshakes. No job is too big for this team as they build it Sky-High!

title: I Met a Murderer

title: Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

overview: A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," shot in Yugoslavia in 1976.

title: Charade

title: Charade

title: Age of Consent

title: The Star of Bethlehem

title: The Star of Bethlehem

title: The Child

overview: 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, who is the author of children's adventure stories, longs for the company of children, and one day is surprised to see a little girl playing in her garden. The child is hungry and inadequately clothed, and Janet takes her into the house, determined to keep her. The next day the police enquire throughout the neighbourhood and call at Janet's house. She conceals the fact that she is hiding the child. Later, the local parson calls and tells Janet that Mrs. Star, a widow and the mother of the missing Sally, is not only heart-nroken but a very sick woman.

title: The Blue Max

title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

title: North by Northwest

title: Bloodline

title: The Man Between

title: Lolita

title: Frankenstein: The True Story

title: A Star Is Born

title: Evil Under the Sun

title: Cross of Iron

title: Genghis Khan

title: Cry Terror!

title: The Search for Alexander the Great

title: Lord Jim

title: Fire Over England

title: Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

title: The Wind in the Wires

title: John Keats: His Life and Death

title: Journey to the Center of the Earth

title: Yellowbeard

title: The Verdict

title: Heaven Can Wait

title: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

title: The Last of Sheila

title: The MacKintosh Man

title: Bigger Than Life

title: Murder by Decree

title: The Water Babies

title: The Reckless Moment

title: Forever, Darling

title: The Prisoner of Zenda

title: The Wicked Lady

title: One Way Street

title: The Desert Rats

title: A Place of One's Own

title: Cold Sweat

title: The Man in Grey

title: The Deadly Affair

title: Georgy Girl

title: Island in the Sun

title: Caught

title: Odd Man Out

title: The Seventh Veil

title: Mandingo

title: Madame Bovary

title: The Boys from Brazil

title: Mayerling

title: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

title: Prince Valiant

title: Theatre 62: Rebecca

title: Ivanhoe

title: The Fall of the Roman Empire

title: Great Expectations

title: Julius Caesar

title: Age of Consent

title: The London Nobody Knows

title: The Passage

title: The Blue Max

title: The Pumpkin Eater

title: Child's Play

title: The Marseille Contract

title: Secret Mission

title: They Met in the Dark

title: Kidnap Syndicate

title: I Met a Murderer

title: Duffy

title: Hatter's Castle

title: The Shooting Party

title: Cyrano de Bergerac

title: The Moon in the Yellow River

title: The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

title: The Upturned Glass

title: 5 Fingers

title: Inside Out

title: A Touch of Larceny

title: The Flower in His Mouth

title: Thunder Rock

title: Bad Man's River

title: Hotel Reserve

title: Bees on the Boat-Deck

title: Fear in the City

title: The Miser

title: The Circle

title: East Side, West Side

title: The Marriage-Go-Round

title: The Night Has Eyes

title: The Tell-Tale Heart

title: Uncertain Verification

title: The Decks Ran Red

title: Fanny by Gaslight

title: Tiara Tahiti

title: The Story of Three Loves

title: A Dangerous Summer

title: Spring and Port Wine

title: Escape from Zahrain

title: Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love

title: They Were Sisters

title: Alibi

title: The Sea Gull

title: Botany Bay

title: The High Command

title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde

title: Candlelight in Algeria

title: Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

title: The Left Hand of the Law

title: Hero's Island

title: Stranger in the House

title: Kill!

title: The Secret of Stamboul

title: The Bells Go Down

title: The Assisi Underground

title: Face to Face

title: 11 Harrowhouse

title: Lady Possessed

title: Late Extra

title: The Uninhibited

title: Troubled Waters

title: The Mill on the Floss

title: Prison Breaker

title: Blind Man's Bluff

title: Lasseter's Bones

title: The Reformation: Age of Revolt

title: Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

title: Autobiography of a Princess

title: Home, James

title: North Sea Hijack

title: Torpedo Bay

title: Alexandre

title: The Patient Vanishes

title: Charade

title: Group Madness

title: Voyage of the Damned

title: Twice Branded

title: Sid & Judy

title: Ellis in Freedomland

title: Catch as Catch Can

title: The Popes and Their Art

title: Dr. Fischer of Geneva

title: The Star of Bethlehem

title: People of the Wind

title: The Glory of the Garden

title: Night of 100 Stars

title: John Brown's Raid

title: Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place

title: Kubrick by Kubrick

title: Bob Hope's World of Comedy

title: Halloween Monster Bash

title: Churchill and the Movie Mogul

title: House Without Foundation

title: Bigger Than Life

title: The Upturned Glass

title: Lady Possessed

title: Lady Possessed

title: Bigger Than Life

title: Bob the Builder: Building Sky High

title: I Met a Murderer

title: Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

title: Charade

title: Charade

title: Age of Consent

title: The Star of Bethlehem

title: The Star of Bethlehem

title: The Child