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James Mason, the third son of a Yorkshire textile merchant, was born a century ago on May 15, 1909, in Huddersfield, England. Seldom without a sketchbook from childhood to the last months of his life, Mr. Mason seemed to be pointed toward a career in architecture before an acting yen overtook him during his third year at Cambridge.
A struggling stage and film actor during the 1930s, he eventually began to make an indelible impression when playing literally hunted or emotionally haunted characters.See the full content of this document
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The Indelible James Mason
This tendency was memorably engraved in the movie that Mr. Mason regarded as his best: Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out," released in 1947. A chase thriller set in Belfast, it cast Mr. Mason as mortally wounded Irish revolutionary Johnny McQueen, who spends most of th...
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