Remembering James Mason on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lord Snowdon, 1950s
“Talent, intelligence, versatility, independence, and enterprise made Mason’s career remarkable.”
- David Thomson
Great chemistry between Christopher Plummer (Holmes) and James Mason (Watson), in one of my favourite Sherlock films, Bob Clark's Murder By Decree.
📷 Kent Gavin, 1978
Max Ophüls directs James Mason & Barbara Bel Geddes on the set of Caught. This was Mason's first film in Hollywood.
📷 Slim Aarons, 1949
Coffee with Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) & Phillip Vandamm (James Mason), from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, 1959. ☕️
The uncredited still photographer on the set was Kenny Bell.
#stillonset
James Mason by Clifford Coffin, Vogue, 1947
Roy Plomley interviews Mason in #DesertIslandDiscs
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James Mason by Davis Claude Boulton
bromide print, 1947
@NPGLondon
A candid moment between Holmes, Christopher Plummer, & Watson, James Mason, in the very fine Murder By Decree, released in 1979.
📷 Peter Marlow, London, 1978
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