James Mason

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

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

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

Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie

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.

Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden

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.

Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Sylvia Miles

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.

Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon

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

Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas

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

Dir. Carol Reed · With James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

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

Dir. Henry Levin · With James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Pat Boone

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

Dir. Nicholas Ray · With James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau

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.

Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason

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

Dir. George Cukor · With Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson

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

Dir. Henry Hathaway · With James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy

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.

Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud

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.

Dir. Herbert Ross · With Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn

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.

Dir. Buck Henry, Warren Beatty · With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason

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.

Dir. Albert Lewin · With James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick

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.

Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Perry King, James Mason, Susan George

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.

Dir. John Guillermin · With George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress

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.

Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins, James Mason

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

Dir. Max Ophüls · With James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks

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...

Dir. John Huston · With Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason

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

Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · With Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason

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.

Dir. Anthony Mann · With Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness

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.

Dir. Bob Clark · With Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings

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.

With David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin