James Mason
A.D. (1985)
A.D. (1985) is an American/Italian miniseries in six parts which adapts the narrative in the Acts of the Apostles. Considered as the third and final installment in a TV miniseries trilogy which began with Moses the Lawgiver (1974) and Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth (1977), it was adapted from Anthony Burgess's 1985 novel The Kingdom of the W...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Ethel Barrymore•Kirk Douglas•Ralph Ince•James Mason•Paul Lukas•Joan Bennett
The Shooting Party (1985)
The Shooting Party is a 1984 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate. The film is set in 1913, less than a year before the beginning of the First World War, and shows the soon-to-vanish way of life of English aristocrats, focusing on a shooting party gathered to pursue pheasant and gener...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Charles Bickford
Ivanhoe (1982)
Ivanhoe is a 1982 British-American made-for-television historical romance film. An adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel of the same name, it stars Anthony Andrews in the title role. The film was directed by Douglas Camfield, with a screenplay written by John Gay. It depicts the noble knight Ivanhoe returning home from the Third Crusade and b...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Jessie Royce Landis•Laurence Olivier•Cary Grant•Cedric Hardwicke
The Verdict (1982)
The Verdict is a 1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed's 1980 novel of the same name. It stars Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, and Lindsay Crouse. A down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer accepts a medical malpractice case to improve his own sit...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Audrey Hepburn•Kirk Douglas•Leo G. Carroll•Joan Fontaine•Van Heflin•Judy Garland
Bloodline (1979)
Bloodline is a 1979 thriller film directed by Terence Young from a screenplay by Laird Koenig, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon. It was the only R-rated film ever made by its star, Audrey Hepburn.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Robert Preston•Danielle Darrieux
Murder by Decree (1979)
Murder by Decree is a 1979 mystery thriller film directed by Bob Clark. It features the Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who are embroiled in the investigation surrounding the real-life 1888 Whitechapel murders committed by "Jack the Ripper". Christopher Plummer plays Holmes and James Mason plays Wat...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Ben Gazzara
Salem's Lot (1979)
Salem's Lot is a 1979 American two part horror miniseries television adaptation of the 1975 horror novel 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires. Salem's Lot combines elements of the...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Alan Ladd
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Anne Meara, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The film is a British-American co-production and is based on the 1976 novel of the same title by Ira Lev...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Desi Arnaz•June Havoc•Ava Gardner•Gregory Peck•Farley Granger•Shelley Winters•Lilli Palmer•Deborah Kerr
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American sports fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry about a young man being mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel, and the resulting complications of how this mistake can be undone, given that his earthly body has been cremated. It was the second film adaptation of Harry Segall's p...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Kirk Douglas•Ricky Nelson•Janet Leigh•Barbara Rush•Märta Torén•Stephen Dunne•Mel Ferrer•Patricia Medina
Mandingo (1975)
Mandingo is a 1975 American historical melodrama film that focuses on the Atlantic slave trade in the Antebellum South. The film's title refers to the mandinka people, who are referred to as "Mandingos", and described as being good slaves for fighting matches. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis for Paramount Pictures, the film was directed by Richard F...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Marlon Brando•Robert Newton
11 Harrowhouse (1974)
11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 British heist comedy thriller film directed by Aram Avakian and starring Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard, and John Gielgud in Panavision. It was adapted by Charles Grodin based upon the novel by Gerald A. Browne with the screenplay by Jeffrey Bloom. It was made at Pinewood Studios with extensive l...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Michael Rennie•Barbara Rush•Robert Wagner
The Last of Sheila (1973)
The Last of Sheila is a 1973 American whodunnit mystery film directed by Herbert Ross and written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. It starred Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, and Raquel Welch.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Herbert Berghof•Ricky Nelson•Richard Burton•Harry Belafonte•Pamela Mason•John Gielgud
The Mackintosh Man (1973)
The Mackintosh Man is a 1973 British Cold War neo noir spy thriller film, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Audrey Hepburn
Child's Play (1972)
Child's Play is a 1972 American drama-mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars James Mason, Robert Preston and Beau Bridges. The screenplay by Leon Prochnik is based on the 1970 play of the same title by Robert Marasco.
Starring: Wesley Addy•narrated by•Eva Marie Saint
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go is a 1970 British thriller film directed by Burgess Meredith. It was shot in Hong Kong and Toronto, Canada.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Julie Newmar•Paul Newman
The Sea Gull (1968)
The Sea Gull is a 1968 British-American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted and translated from Anton Chekhov's classic 1896 play The Seagull.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Joan Collins•Eli Wallach
Genghis Khan (1965)
Genghis Khan is a 1965 adventure film directed by Henry Levin and starring Omar Sharif, depicting a fictionalized account of the life and conquests of the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan. Distributed in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1965 by Columbia Pictures, the film also features James Mason, Stephen Boyd, Eli Wallach, Françoise Dorléac...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Angie Dickinson•Rip Torn
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 American epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston, with a screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan. The film stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer, and Omar Sharif.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Sophia Loren•Jack Warden•Stephen Boyd•Charlotte Rampling•Ben Gazzara•Rip Torn•Christopher Plummer
Hero's Island (1962)
Hero's Island, also known as The Land We Love, is a 1962 American action film written and directed by Leslie Stevens. It stars James Mason, Neville Brand, Kate Manx, Rip Torn, Warren Oates and Brendan Dillon. It was released on September 16, 1962, by United Artists.
Starring: Wesley Addy•James Coburn
Lolita (1962)
Lolita is a 1962 psychological comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov, who is also credited with writing the screenplay. The film follows Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature lecturer who becomes sexually infatuated with Dolores Haze, a young adolescent girl. It stars Jam...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Denholm Elliott•Dyan Cannon•Warren Beatty
The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
The Marriage-Go-Round is a 1961 DeLuxe Color CinemaScope American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and written by Leslie Stevens. It is based on the 1958 play The Marriage-Go-Round, also penned by Stevens. The film stars Susan Hayward, James Mason, Julie Newmar, Robert Paige and June Clayworth. It was released on January 6, 1961, by 20th Century...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Sue Lyon•Peter Sellers
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1959 American science fiction adventure film in color by De Luxe, distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film, produced by Charles Brackett and directed by Henry Levin, stars James Mason, Pat Boone, and Arlene Dahl. Bernard Herrmann wrote the film score, and the film's storyline was adapted by Charles Brackett ...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Anthony Quayle•Charles Grodin
North by Northwest (1959)
North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
Starring: Wesley Addy•Raquel Welch•Beau Bridges•Vanessa Redgrave•Michael Hordern•Candice Bergen
Cry Terror! (1958)
Cry Terror! is a 1958 American thriller film starring James Mason, Inger Stevens, and Rod Steiger. The cast also featured Neville Brand, Jack Klugman and Angie Dickinson. The crime story was written and directed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Andrew L. Stone.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Irene Tsu•Olivia Hussey•Milo O'Shea•Richard Benjamin
The Decks Ran Red (1958)
The Decks Ran Red is a 1958 MGM seagoing suspense drama based on the book Infamy at Sea, and directed by Andrew L. Stone. The feature starred James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, and Stuart Whitman.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Anne Meara
Island in the Sun (1957)
Island in the Sun is a 1957 drama film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Robert Rossen. It features an ensemble cast including James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, Michael Rennie, Stephen Boyd, Patricia Owens, John Justin, Diana Wynyard, John Williams, and Basil Sydney. The film is about race rela...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Vincent Gardenia•Anne Meara•Richard Roundtree•Anthony Zerbe•Charlotte Rampling
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Bigger Than Life is a 1956 American drama film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Mason, Barbara Rush, and Walter Matthau. Its plot follows an ailing school teacher and family man whose life spins out of control when he misuses cortisone. It is based on a 1955 article by medical writer Berton Roueché in The New Yorker, titled "Ten Feet Tal...
Starring: Wesley Addy•R.G. Armstrong•Uta Hagen
Forever, Darling (1956)
Forever, Darling is a 1956 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, written by Helen Deutsch, and starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason. In the film, Ball stars as a wife who tries to save her struggling marriage to a chemical engineer (Arnaz) with the help of her guardian angel (Mason). Louis Calhern and Natal...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Ken Norton•Lindsay Crouse
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, from a screenplay by Earl Felton. Adapted from Jules Verne's 1870 novel of the same name, the film was personally produced by Walt Disney through Walt Disney Productions. It stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre. Phot...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Steve Guttenberg•Sam Neill•Anthony Andrews
Prince Valiant (1954)
Prince Valiant is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Robert L. Jacks, in Technicolor and Cinemascope from 20th Century Fox. Based on the King Features syndicated newspaper comic strip of the same name by Hal Foster, the film stars James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget and Sterling Hayden.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Tom Mix•Ethel Barrymore
A Star Is Born (1954)
A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical drama film directed by George Cukor, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Hart's screenplay is an adaptation of the original 1937 film, based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and from the same story by William A. Wellman and Carson, w...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Walter Hampden•Ralph Ince•Joan Bennett•Barbara Stanwyck
Botany Bay (1953)
Botany Bay is a 1953 American drama film directed by John Farrow and starring Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. It was based on a novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Patricia Medina•Cedric Hardwicke
Charade (1953)
Charade is a 1953 black and white American anthology film directed by Roy Kellino. It consists of a trio of short stories introduced by and starring James Mason and his wife Pamela.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Gene Lockhart
The Desert Rats (1953)
The Desert Rats is a 1953 American black-and-white war film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Robert L. Jacks, directed by Robert Wise, that stars Richard Burton, James Mason, and Robert Newton. The film's storyline concerns the Siege of Tobruk in North Africa during World War II.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Van Heflin•Judy Garland
Julius Caesar (1953)
Julius Caesar is a 1953 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by John Houseman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Caesar, Edmond O'Brien as Casca, Greer Garson as Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr as Po...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Jack Carson•Michael Rennie•Jennifer Jones•Charles Bickford
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
The Story of Three Loves is a 1953 American Technicolor romantic anthology film made by MGM. It consists of three stories, "The Jealous Lover", "Mademoiselle", and "Equilibrium". The film was produced by Sidney Franklin. "Mademoiselle" was directed by Vincente Minnelli, while Gottfried Reinhardt directed the other two segments. The screenplays were...
Starring: Greer Garson•Wesley Addy•Alan Ladd•Anthony Andrews•June Havoc•Farley Granger•Deborah Kerr
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 American animated psychological horror short film produced by UPA, directed by Ted Parmelee, and narrated by James Mason. The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The British Board of Film Censors made this the first cartoon to receive an adults-...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Barbara Bel Geddes
5 Fingers (1952)
5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 American spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang. The screenplay written by Michael Wilson was based on the 1950 book Operation Cicero by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, Nazi commercial attaché at the German embassy in Ankara, Turkey (1943–44).
Starring: Janet Leigh•Wesley Addy•Geraldine Brooks•Märta Torén•Stephen Dunne
Botany Bay (1952)
Botany Bay is a 1953 American drama film directed by John Farrow and starring Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. It was based on a novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Patricia Medina
Face to Face (1952)
Face to Face (1952) is an anthology film adapted from the stories "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane. The film was produced by A&P heir Huntington Hartford and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Marlon Brando•narrated by
Lady Possessed (1952)
Lady Possessed is a 1952 American film noir mystery film directed by William Spier and Roy Kellino and starring James Mason and June Havoc. Mason and his wife Pamela produced and wrote the film themselves, based on Pamela's novel Del Palma. They chose Pamela's ex-husband Roy Kellino, with whom she remained close, to direct the film. It was a critic...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Robert Newton•Leslie Caron
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1952 Technicolor film version of the 1894 novel of the same name by Anthony Hope and a remake of the 1937 sound version and the 1922 silent. This first color version, made by Loew's and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The film stars Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, and J...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Michael Rennie
The Desert Fox (1951)
The Desert Fox is a 1951 American biographical war film from 20th Century Fox about the role of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in World War II. It stars James Mason in the title role, was directed by Henry Hathaway, and was based on the book Rommel: The Desert Fox by Brigadier Desmond Young, who served in the British Indian Army in North Africa.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Robert Wagner
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 British Technicolor romantic fantasy drama film directed by Albert Lewin and produced by Lewin and Joseph Kaufman from Lewin's own screenplay, based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman. It was filmed mainly in Tossa de Mar, on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. The land record speed scenes were shot at P...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Ethel Barrymore
One Way Street (1950)
One Way Street is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring James Mason, Märta Torén and Dan Duryea. The crime film takes place mainly in Mexico.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Pier Angeli
Caught (1949)
Caught is a 1949 American film noir directed by Max Ophüls, and starring James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Ryan. Caught was based on a novel by Libbie Block.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Herbert Berghof
East Side, West Side (1949)
East Side, West Side is a 1949 American melodrama crime film, starring Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, and Ava Gardner. Based on the 1947 novel of the same title, written by Marcia Davenport, screenplay by Isobel Lennart, produced by Voldemar Vetluguin, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Ricky Nelson•Pamela Mason•Ethel Barrymore
Madame Bovary (1949)
Madame Bovary is a 1949 American romantic drama, a film adaptation of the classic 1857 novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper.
Starring: Wesley Addy•Pamela Mason•narrated by
The Reckless Moment (1949)
The Reckless Moment is a 1949 American film noir melodrama directed by Max Ophüls, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by Columbia Pictures with Burnett Guffey as cinematographer. It starred James Mason and Joan Bennett. The film is based on The Blank Wall (1947), a novel written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. The 2001 film The Deep End is a rema...
Starring: Wesley Addy•Tommy Noonan•Tom Mix
Chicago After Midnight (1928)
Chicago After Midnight is a lost 1928 American silent film directed by and starring Ralph Ince.
Starring: Ralph Ince•Wesley Addy
Mile-a-Minute Romeo (1923)
Mile-a-Minute Romeo is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Robert N. Lee. It is based on the 1922 novel Gun Gentlemen by Max Brand. The film stars Tom Mix, Betty Jewel, J. Gordon Russell, James Mason, Duke R. Lee and James Quinn. The film was released on November 18, 1923, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Geraldine Brooks•Wesley Addy