"Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK. His father was Frank Mason, a cousin of the actor, James Mason. Mason’s grandfather was the understudy and stand-in for the actor and comedian, George Formby, and his cousin, Barry Mason, is the popular songwriter who wrote the massive hit, “Delilah,” for Tom Jones. Although he was tempted to follow the family tradition, Mason accepted paternal advice and was swiftly appointed as a trainee stockbroker in the Manchester Stock Exchange where he worked as a financial researcher into securities and investments. However, after demonstrating considerable promise for the profession, Mason tired of the pretensions of"
"James Mason (American actor) James Pier Mason (February 3, 1889 – November 7, 1959) was an American actor. He appeared in 173 films between 1914 and 1952, often as a villain or henchman in Westerns, and was sometimes credited as James Mason or Jim Mason. He's memorable as the drug-addicted criminal who shoots Lon Chaney's character Blizzard in the final moments of 1920's ""The Penalty"". He was born in Paris, France on February 3, 1889 to James Kent Mason and Katie Evelyn Pier. His parents were from Manhattan, New York City and returned to the United States after his birth."
"""the first channel of its kind in the world with programmes offering viewers help and guidance for self-empowerment."" Mason married singer Belinda Carlisle in 1986, eloping to Lake Tahoe. They have a son, James Duke Mason. In 2017, he and Carlisle moved to Bangkok, Thailand. Morgan Mason Alexander Morgan Mason (born June 26, 1955) is an American politician, film producer, and actor. Mason was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of British parents, actor James Mason and actress and commentator Pamela Mason. His grandfather, the financier and film producer Isidore Ostrer, was head of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. As"
"Morgan Mason Alexander Morgan Mason (born June 26, 1955) is an American politician, film producer, and actor. Mason was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of British parents, actor James Mason and actress and commentator Pamela Mason. His grandfather, the financier and film producer Isidore Ostrer, was head of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. As a child, Mason appeared in the films ""The Sandpiper"", with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and ""Hero's Island"", along with his father. When his grandfather Isidore Ostrer died, Mason inherited his seat on the board of Illingworth, Morris, Ltd., then the world's largest woolen textile"
"Mason died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack on November 7, 1959. James Mason (American actor) James Pier Mason (February 3, 1889 – November 7, 1959) was an American actor. He appeared in 173 films between 1914 and 1952, often as a villain or henchman in Westerns, and was sometimes credited as James Mason or Jim Mason. He's memorable as the drug-addicted criminal who shoots Lon Chaney's character Blizzard in the final moments of 1920's ""The Penalty"". He was born in Paris, France on February 3, 1889 to James Kent Mason and Katie Evelyn Pier. His parents were from"
"James Mason James Neville Mason (; 15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor. Mason achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming one of Hollywood's biggest stars. He was the top box office attraction in the UK in 1944 and 1945, with notable films including ""The Seventh Veil"" (1945) and ""The Wicked Lady"" (1945). He starred in ""Odd Man Out"" (1947), the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. He starred in a number of successful British and American films from the 1950s to the early 1980s, including """", ""A Star Is Born"","
"theatre. His films were generally very well received, and some of them were marked out for the inventiveness of the plot, locations used for shooting and humour. Some of his films are remembered for introducing rising actors and actresses to the screen before they became famous. Samuel George Herbert Mason was born in 1891, in Moseley, Birmingham the third of four children of Samuel George Mason (a Brass Founder at Samuel Mason Ltd) and Amy Mason (née Collins) and a nephew (by marriage) of the famous Shakespearean actress – Ellen Terry. His grandfather Samuel Mason was also a Brass Founder."
"Ellar Coltrane Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994), known professionally as Ellar Coltrane, is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film ""Boyhood"" (2014), for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Coltrane was born in Austin, Texas to Genevieve (née Kinney), an equine-assisted therapist for people with autism, and Bruce Salmon, a musician. His parents divorced when he was nine, and his mother subsequently remarried. Coltrane's half-sister, Evelyn, was born when he was eleven. He was largely homeschooled as a child, with"
"vocals on Jamie Woon's single ""Celebration"" from his album ""Making Time"". Willy Mason Willy Mason (born November 21, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter. Mason was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Jemima James and Michael Mason, both songwriters. Mason is a direct descendant of the 19th-century philosopher William James, the brother of novelist Henry James. When Mason was five, he and his family moved from Tarrytown, New York to West Tisbury, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. He attended West Tisbury Elementary School and Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, where he participated in several local bands"
"Mase was born Mason Durell Betha in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1975, as a fraternal twin born almost two months premature, to P. K. Betha and Mason Betha. He grew up with two brothers and three sisters, including his twin sister, Stason, born a few minutes after him. The father left the family when Mase was just three years old. In 1982 his mother moved herself and her children to Harlem, New York, where Mase spent the majority of his childhood. During his early teenage years, Betha began getting into trouble on the streets of Harlem, and when he"
"Willy Mason Willy Mason (born November 21, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter. Mason was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Jemima James and Michael Mason, both songwriters. Mason is a direct descendant of the 19th-century philosopher William James, the brother of novelist Henry James. When Mason was five, he and his family moved from Tarrytown, New York to West Tisbury, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. He attended West Tisbury Elementary School and Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, where he participated in several local bands such as Keep Thinking, Cultivation, and Slow Leslie. He also was"
"a third Emmy Award. He has written and performed in six one-man shows on Broadway. Known for his delivery and voice, as well as his use of innuendo and pun, Mason's often culturally grounded humor has been described as irreverent and sometimes politically incorrect. A critic for ""Time"" wrote that he spoke to audiences: ""with the Yiddish locutions of an immigrant who just completed a course in English. By mail."" Jackie Mason was born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the fourth and last son (and first one born in the United States) in a family of six children of"
"Mason"". Katt was born in Los Angeles to actors Bill Williams (birth name Herman August Wilhelm Katt) and Barbara Hale. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley and began acting as a teenager, sometimes appearing with his parents. Graduated from Army & Navy Academy, Carlsbad, California (school records). Katt attended Orange Coast College before pursuing a career as a musician. Inspired by his father, he then started an acting career, appearing in summer stock theatre and in small television roles. His earliest film credits include the role of a jock, Tommy Ross in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film"
"Richard Mason (film producer) Richard Mason (1926–2002) was a film producer and director. He died in Sydney on 22 November 2002 in Sydney. He was born on the South Coast of New South Wales, the son of a parson. During the second world war he guarded Italian Prisoners of War. After the war he joined Sydney’s Mercury Theater as an actor, co-starring in Molière’s ""The Imaginary Invalid"". However, he soon moved to film, starting as a wardrobe assistant for Eureka Stockade (1949 film), then as an assistant at the Colorfilm lab, then joining the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Screen Australia)."
"and Away"" as Martin Ashford. In 2017, Mason left ""Home and Away"" to star in the musical feature film ""Daffodils"". Mason was born and raised in Invercargill. He has two elder sisters. He attended Southland Boys' High School, where he played rugby for the Southland Boys' High School 1st XV and competed in speech competitions. Mason moved to Wellington in 2009 to study a Bachelor of Performing Arts at the Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School. Mason became engaged to his partner, French model Manon Buchalet in 2016. Mason was thirteen years old when a family friend encouraged him to"
"LeRoy Mason LeRoy Mason (July 2, 1903 – October 13, 1947) was an American film actor who worked primarily in Westerns in both the silent and sound film eras. He was born LeRoy Franklin Mason in Larimore, North Dakota. Mason's first acting in films (other than bit parts) came in 1926, when he appeared in two low-budget Westerns and the serial ""Lightning Hutch"". He had leading roles in four films from 1928-1930. A shooting accident while he worked on a film in the late 1930s caused him to lose sight in his right eye. Mason was married to actress Bo"
"Kennedy after the actor's death. James Mason James Neville Mason (; 15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor. Mason achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming one of Hollywood's biggest stars. He was the top box office attraction in the UK in 1944 and 1945, with notable films including ""The Seventh Veil"" (1945) and ""The Wicked Lady"" (1945). He starred in ""Odd Man Out"" (1947), the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. He starred in a number of successful British and American films from the 1950s to the early 1980s, including"
"James Mason (chess player) James Mason (November 19, 1849 – January 12, 1905) was an Irish-born chess player, journalist and writer, who became one of the world's best half-dozen players in the 1880s. Mason was ranked the number 1 player in the world during 11 separate months between August 1877 and June 1878. Mason was born in Kilkenny in Ireland. He was adopted as a child and took the name James Mason (his original birth name was unknown) when his family moved to the United States in 1861. There he learned chess and eventually secured a job at the ""New"
"Gary Mason (boxer) Gary Mason (15 December 19626 January 2011) was a British boxer who was based in Chatham, Kent, England. He was born in Jamaica. Mason fought at the heavyweight level and became the British heavyweight champion in 1989. Mason was a top ten contender, his main strengths being his punching power, heart and physical strength. Mason died on 6 January 2011 in a cycling accident in South London. Mason fought 38 times as a professional in a career that spanned 10 years from 1984 to 1994, with 37 wins (34 by knockout) and only one loss, that being"
"ArtWatch International. Mason served as President of the National Society of Mural Painters for the 1995-96 year. He married Phyllis Harriman, the daughter of banker E. Roland Harriman and philanthropist Gladys Fries Harriman. Together, they had: Mason died in 2009. A full-length documentary film produced by Maestro Films premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival in New York City on November 3, 2011. Frank Herbert Mason Frank Herbert Mason (February 20, 1921 - June 16, 2009) was an American painter and teacher. Frank Herbert Mason was born on February 20, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio. His father was a Shakespearean actor"
"Richard Mason (novelist born 1977) Richard Mason (born 1978) is a South African-British novelist and philanthropist. Richard Mason was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 4 January 1978. His parents were anti-Apartheid activists and brought Mason to the United Kingdom when he was 10 years old. Richard Mason first came to prominence at the age of 21, when the ""London Times"" dubbed him ""king of the hot young writers"". He had just published his first novel, ""The Drowning People"", an “exceptional achievement” (Guardian) that became ""one of the most talked about first novels of 1999"" (Daily Telegraph). As The ""Telegraph"""
"He remained with the Commonwealth Film Unit, which then became Film Australia, for many years until resigning in 1978 over the Australian government's political censorship of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. Once independent, he produced Winter of Our Dreams (1981), Far East (film) (1982), and One Night Stand (1984 film). A series of short films exploring themes of Aboriginal life in Australia in the 20th century: Richard Mason (film producer) Richard Mason (1926–2002) was a film producer and director. He died in Sydney on 22 November 2002 in Sydney. He was born on the South Coast of New South Wales, the"
"on TV on the show ""A Different World"". She was a mother of two, daughter Mason Synclaire Williams and son Austin Barrett Williams. Mason died unexpectedly of a ruptured abdominal aorta on July 8, 2009. Judi Ann Mason Judi Ann Mason (February 2, 1955 – July 8, 2009) was an American television writer, producer and playwright. Mason was born in Bossier City, Louisiana on February 2, 1955. She excelled in English and became interested in playwrighting while in high school. Her professional writing career began while a drama student at Grambling State University. While attending Grambling, she won the Norman"
"John B. Mason John B. Mason (October 28, 1858 – January 12, 1919) was an American stage actor popular during the decades surrounding the start of the twentieth century. John Hill Belcher Mason was born in Orange, New Jersey the son of Daniel Gregory and Susan W. (née Belcher) Mason. He was the son of a publisher and a grandson of Dr. Lowell Mason, a well–known educator and composer of Christian music. Mason was a cousin to composer and music critic Daniel Gregory Mason and could trace his American lineage back to Robert Mason, an Englishman who settled in Salem,"
"James Mason (wrestler) James Atkins (born 22 July 1979 in London) is a British professional wrestler best known under his ring name James Mason. A childhood fan of Big Daddy, Atkins began wrestling for All Star Wrestling in 1993, adopting the ringname James Mason, after the film actor of the same name at the behest of ring announcer John Harris. Early in his career, he also wrestled for Welsh promoter Orig Williams under the name Jesse James (as Williams felt the actor in question was ""boring"" and this would reflect poorly on Atkins). In 1995, Mason was named by All"
"New York, New York on November 15, 1974, 86 years to the day of his birth. James W. Morrison James W. Morrison (November 15, 1888 – November 15, 1974) was an American actor and author. He appeared in 187 films between 1911 and 1927. Morrison was born in Mattoon, Illinois, United States, on November 15, 1888. He went to the University of Chicago and then the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Vitagraph Studios then hired him for a salary of $25 a week, and he debuted in a 30-minute film of ""A Tales of Two Cities"""
"Ling; they had no children and eventually separated. On October 13, 1947, Mason died of ""acute myocardial infarction dure to coronary thrombosis"" in the Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital in Van Nuys, California. He had been there for 31 days after suffering a heart attack on the set of ""California Firebrand"". The following were with John Wayne: Other films: LeRoy Mason LeRoy Mason (July 2, 1903 – October 13, 1947) was an American film actor who worked primarily in Westerns in both the silent and sound film eras. He was born LeRoy Franklin Mason in Larimore, North Dakota. Mason's first acting"
"John Mason (artist) John Mason (born 1927 in Madrid, Nebraska) is a contemporary American artist. From very early on, Mason's work focused on exploring the physical properties of clay and its ""extreme plasticity."" Mason is recognized for his focus and steady investigation of mathematical concepts relating to rotation, symmetry, and modules as well as his formal innovation with the ceramic medium. Mason's early childhood was spent in the Midwest; Mason's family moved to Fallon, Nevada in 1937, where he finished elementary and high school. Mason settled in Los Angeles in 1949 at the age of 22. Mason attended Otis Art"
"the tax code. Born in Glamorganshire, Wales, the 12th of 13 children, Mason immigrated to the United States in 1888 with his parents, who settled in La Salle, Illinois; his father was a coal miner and then a farmer. He left school at 14 to help on the farm, but at his mother's urging attended Dixon College, and graduated from the Illinois State Normal University at Normal. He was a teacher and principal of schools at Oglesby, Illinois from 1902 to 1905 and was superintendent of schools from 1908 to 1936. From 1918 to 1926 he was also an Oglesby"
"from his time as federal prosecutor. ""Anything that involved people, he would excel at. … The worst mood I ever saw him in was cheerful."" Thomas B. Mason Thomas Boyd Mason (January 12, 1919 – March 9, 2007) was an American United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia (1961–1969), and an actor. Mason was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia by John F. Kennedy in 1961. Prior to this appointment, Mason and Kennedy had served together in the South Pacific as naval officers during World War II, and Mason was subsequently a district campaign"
"his work alongside John Ireland. He is also a regular contributor on ""Good Day L.A."" on FOX 11 in Los Angeles. Mason was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and raised in Maumee, Ohio. He graduated from Maumee High School in 1983 chosen by his classmates as ""Most Likely to Succeed."" In 1982, he was chosen as the outstanding high school student in the state of Ohio and was awarded a full academic scholarship to Bowling Green University, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. In 1986, he was elected to the National Board of Directors for Sigma Phi"
"Bill Mason (director) Rowland Hill Berkeley Mason (9 November 1915 – 17 January 2002), known as Bill Mason, was an English documentary film maker and scriptwriter. Mason was born in Kings Norton, Birmingham, England and was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, between 1929 and 1934. In the 1940s, he moved to Hampstead Heath, London, with his wife and son Nick Mason, who became the drummer of Pink Floyd. A filmmaker and amateur racing car driver, because of a lifelong passion for motor sports Bill Mason specialized in observing them as a maker of documentary films. His enthusiasm for the world"
"an offer to manage a Hotel in South Africa, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in South Africa on 27 August 1977 at the age of 74. Harry Mason (boxer) Harry Mason (27 March 1903 – 27 August 1977) was a British boxer who was a British and European (EBU) champion in the lightweight division and British champion in the welterweight division. Born in Bethnal Green on 27 March 1903 to a Jewish family, Mason moved to Leeds as a child, where he worked as a trolley boy for the London & North Eastern Railway."