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 James Mason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Neville Mason (May 15, 1909 – July 27, 1984) was an actor born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England who attained stardom in both British and American films.
Mason died as a result of a heart attack on July 27, 1984 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mason had no formal training as an actor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Mason   (273 words)

  
 James Mason Hutchings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Mason Hutchings was born in England on February 10, 1820.
James Hutchings, while visiting Yosemite on October 31, 1902, was killed when his horse reared and threw him from his buggy.
On July 5th, 1855 James Hutchings set out on what would be one of the most historic trips of the region, leading the second tourist party into Yosemite.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Mason_Hutchings   (522 words)

  
 Biography: James Gilbert Mason
JAMES GILBERT MASON was born October 31, 1841, in Jonesboro, Tennessee, the country of the Scotch-Irish folk, son of Archibald G. and Lucinda Ryland Mason.
Mason joined the Presbyterian Church at the early age of fourteen, and then decided to be a minister of the gospel.
In college, Mason was a member of the Equitable (or Delta Upsilon) fraternity, of the 'Logian Literary Society, he represented this society in one of the Adelphic Union Debates, and of Mills Society.
www.geneabios.com /williams/mason.htm   (1152 words)

  
 James Murray Mason
James Murray Mason, a descendant of a prominent Virginia family, became a lawyer and served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis chose James Mason to serve as the Confederacy's envoy to England.
Mason's "cotton diplomacy" was not effective with the British government, largely because England had a two-year inventory of cotton set aside.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /ForeignInfluences/jamesmurraymason.html   (338 words)

  
 James Mason
Mason soon became the strongest player at the New York Chess Club [established by James Thompson in 1839, the New York Chess Club was a precursor to The Manhattan Chess Club (1887) and The Marshall Chess Club (originating as the Marshall Chess Divan in 1915, it became the Marshall Chess Club in 1922)].
One day in 1878 I was talking at the Grand Divan to a friend who had just returned from America, when he suddenly exclaimed, "Here comes James Mason!" I turned round, and perceived a perky agile youth tripping jauntily along the floor towards the upper end of the room.
Mason was known to tournament directors as a trouble maker, partially due to his drunken disorderliness, partially due to his naturally belligerent temperment.
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 James Mason
James Mason was born James Neville Mason in Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England on 15 May 1909.
This site is dedicated to James Mason, one of our great British leading men on the silver screen.
The eldest, Rex Linton Gaunt Mason was born in 1906 and Edward Colin in 1907.
www.jamesmason.ic24.net   (185 words)

  
 James Mason @ Filmbug
James Mason (May 15, 1909-1984) was an actor born in Yorkshire, England who attained stardom in both British and American films.
Mason's distinctive voice enabled him to play a menacing villain as much as his good looks assisted him as a leading man. His roles include the failing actor in the 1954 version of A Star is Born, an IRA activist in Odd Man Out (1946), and a gangster in North by Northwest 1959.
Mason died as a result of a heart attack on July 27, 1984 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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 Deep Groove Encyclopedia - James Mason
Mason was a one-time member of Roy Ayers' band, performing on jazz-funk delights like the Lifeline LP, where he featured on "Running Away." He stepped away to record an album that would become legendary for its union of progressive funk and jazz.
Mason took everything he had learned from Ayers and poured it into this 10 track masterpiece, one of the most collectable fusion albums of all time.
Percolating percussion, deep bass and Mason's tasty guitar fills form the bedrock for these killer jazz-funk tunes, the most famous of whom, "Sweet Power Your Embrace," "Free," and "Funny Girl," are longtime classics and home to several samples.
www.allthingsdeep.com /dge/james_mason.htm   (280 words)

  
 James Murray Mason Biography / Biography of James Murray Mason Biography
James M. Mason was born on Nov. 3, 1798, at Georgetown, D.C. After an excellent elementary education, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818.
Mason had great personal charm, despite his critics' charge that he was untidy and chewed tobacco and spat on the floor of Parliament.
Mason was never received officially by the British government, and he obtained only three interviews with British officials, all as a private citizen.
www.bookrags.com /biography-james-murray-mason   (502 words)

  
 James Mason
James Mason was born in Knoxville about 1840 and was owned by Major James Swan.
Mason did not live to see the fruits of his labor manifested in the success of the school for the state's black deaf children, but he had dared to dream and take the initial steps for what was to come.
Mason was fortunate that a young member of the Swan household taught him to read.
www.tnstate.edu /library/digital/mason.htm   (446 words)

  
 JAMES MURRAY MASON - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES MURRAY MASON
Entering politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, Mason was throughout his career a consistent strict constructionist, opposing protective tariffs, internal improvements by the national government, and all attempts to restrict or control the spread of slavery, ~,vhich he sincerely believed to be essential to the social and political welfare of the South.
Mason at once proceeded to London, where, however, he was unable to secure official recognition, and his commission to Great Britain was withdrawn late in 1863.
(1798I871), American political leader,, was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, on the 3rd of November 1798, the grandson of George Mason (1725-1792).
www.1911ency.org /M/MA/MASON_JAMES_MURRAY.htm   (409 words)

  
 James Mason Biography (1909-1984)
Mason's inimitable air of gravitas suited the role of Joseph of Arimathea in the made-for-TV film Jesus of Nazareth (1977), and enhanced the humor of his appearance as the God-like Mr.
Mason, who was just under six feet tall, became Britain's biggest screen star a few years later with his performance as the sadistic title character in the Gainsborough Studios melodrama The Man in Grey (1943).
Mason's American career was firmly established by his late-'40s successes, and his elegant range helped him remain a Hollywood fixture throughout the '50s.
www.leninimports.com /james_mason.html   (1551 words)

  
 Feature on James Mason
James Mason was not an actor to be gone and then forgotten.
James Mason made his professional debut in 1931 at the Theatre Royal, Aldershot.
Mason's first commercial success came in 1943 with The Man in Grey, a swashbuckling Regency romance, with Mason as the ruthless-but-sexy aristocratic villain.
www.retirement-matters.co.uk /jmason.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Mason, James on Encyclopedia.com
JAMES MASON, THE "CONFEDERATE LOBBY" AND THE BLOCKADE DEBATE OF MARCH 1862.
NCAA Men's: James Madison (10-15) at George Mason (14-10).
December 12) PHILADELPHIA, PA --Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers squeezes past MilwaukeeBucks Desmond Mason (right) and Mike James (left) on a driveto the hoop in the second quarter.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/masonj1a.asp   (810 words)

  
 James Mason - MovieActors.com
Earning his first Academy Award nomination, was for James Mason's role in the technicolor remake of A STAR IS BORN in 1954.
Two big hits for James Mason was THE MAN IN GRAY playing a villain in 1943, and a nasty mentor to Ann Todd in THE SEVENTH VEIL in 1945.
James Mason - Great Movie Actors at MovieActors.com
www.movieactors.com /actors/jamesmason.htm   (269 words)

  
 Sonoface Records. Durham, NC based record label featuring the music of James Mason.
Durham, NC based record label featuring the music of James Mason.
James’ older brother Christian lent his acoustic guitaring to three songs on the disc, ‘Silver Spades’, ‘Laura’s Stones’, and ‘Three’.
James remained in the Charlottesville area after graduation, honing his craft, recording and playing occasional shows.
www.sonofacerecords.com /james.htm   (366 words)

  
 Yamaha Canada Music Band & Orchestral Artists
James Mason is highly regarded as one of Canada's most prominent oboists.
Mason held the Principal Oboe position with the Saskatoon Symphony and Assistant Principal Oboe with the Virginia Symphony.
Mason has many recordings to his credit, including such diverse musical styles as a Concerto for oboe and pan flute with Zamfir to Bach cantatas with Canadian Baritone, Daniel Lichti.
www.yamaha.ca /bandorchestra/artists.jsp?instrumentId=0&from=artists&display=spotlight&artistId=59   (196 words)

  
 James Mason - Introduction - wickedlady.com
James Mason is probably the best known English actor of our period, he was enormously successful in England and also made a big impact in the United States.
Then in 1947 he went to Hollywood and made a name for himself there, though in slightly different roles to those which had brought him success in England.
However he turned to films and became a star of 'quota quickies' in the late 1930s.
www.wickedlady.com /films/gentlemen/MasonJames   (144 words)

  
 'James Mason'
For those of you who may not be aware of the name James Mason, he was a British actor who died in the 1980's.
'James Mason' is a bit larger than most other Gallicas, having been bred from the Kordes hybrid, 'Scharlachglut', which is known to achieve a massive size of 10 feet or more.
This is truly a wonderful addition to the group, and deserves to be more widely grown.
www.rdrop.com /~paul/gallicas/mason.html   (282 words)

  
 James Mason at Reel Classics
Though trained in architecture at Cambridge University, James Mason believed he could make more money acting, and after he became one of Britain's most famous leading men, he moved to Hollywood where his distinctive voice and frequent portrayals of men with a dark side brought him three Oscar nominations and immortal star status.
Mason as Irish rebel leader Johnny McQueen who masterminds the payroll robbery of a mill in Carol Reed's suspense thriller ODD MAN OUT (1947), the film that established him as one of Britain's biggest stars.
Incidentally, this was not the only time Mason played Rommel.
www.reelclassics.com /Actors/Mason/mason.htm   (269 words)

  
 screenonline: Mason, James (1909-1984) Biography
Biographies: James Mason: A Bio-Bibliography by Kevin Sweeney (1999), 'James Mason: The Man Between' by Peter William Evans in Bruce Babington (ed), British Stars and Stardom (2001).
James Mason drives his wife to drink as her horrified sisters look on
Anyone who makes over 100 films is inevitably going to be associated with some rubbish; Mason's achievement is, partly, that one wouldn't think of attributing the blame to him.
www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/447497   (554 words)

  
 MASON, JAMES MURRAY (17... - Online Information article about MASON, JAMES MURRAY (17...
Correspondence of James M. Mason, with some See also:
MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c.
consort, Lincoln acknowledged that the seizure of Mason and Slidell was a violation of the rights of Great Britain as a neutral, and on the 1st of See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAR_MEC/MASON_JAMES_MURRAY_1798_1871_.html   (693 words)

  
 James Mason
Marinda Lett and James Mason were the parents of Frank, Emmet, and DeMont "Mont" Mason.
Marinda Lett, daughter of Oathias B. Lett and Sophia (Stevens) Lett, married James Mason, son of Jonathan Mason.
They were both children of Claude Mason and Mabel (Myers) Claude's parents were Jonnathan Mason and Russell (Newman).
www.oldsettlersreunion.com /Mason.htm   (279 words)

  
 The chess games of James Mason
James Mason (not his real name) was born on the 19th of November 1849 in Kilkenny, Ireland.
: As far as Mason's notable games goes, a much better choice than his game with Noa from London 1883 would be his game with black against Paulsen from Vienna 1882.
Excellent and ambitious job translating much of it.
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=10426   (793 words)

  
 James Mason
Our plants of James Mason are 6 to 10 inches tall in bands or 4 inch pots.
Bred by Peter Beales of England, ‘Jame Mason’ is a wonderful modern addition to the Gallica class.
This is an excellent once-bloomer for a large space in the garden, and makes one of the most spectacular Spring displays of all.
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James D. Mason, originally trained as a mediaevalist and linguist, has been a writer, systems developer, and manufacturing engineer at U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge since the late 1970s.
James Mason files a brief recap of this year's Extreme Markup Languages conference.
Mason was chairman of the Knowledge Technologies 2002 conference sponsored by IDEAlliance and was a co-chair of Extreme Markup Languages 2003.
www.xml.com /pub/au/211   (244 words)

  
 James Mason News
James Mason stars as an Irishman on the run after a botched robbery.
News about James Mason continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
GAY CHARACTERS ARE not uncommon in the films of legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, from the Leopold and Loeb-inspired thrill killers in Rope to the unabashed lesbianism of Mrs.
www.topix.net /who/james-mason   (253 words)

  
 James J. Mason
Mason conducts his research in the Solid Mechanics Laboratory at Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering.
S.P. Kotha, C. Schmid, and J. Mason, "Fracture Toughness of Steel Fiber Reinforced Bone Cement," to appear in J.
Vernaza-Peña, J.J. Mason and M. Li, "High-Speed Temperature Measurements in Orthogonal Cutting of Aluminum," Experimental Mechanics, 42, no. 2, pp.
www.nd.edu /~ame/facultystaff/Mason,James.html   (544 words)

  
 James Mason
A distinguished career that spanned six decades and more than 100 films, James Mason made every movie he appeared in better.
Mason brings a magnificent focus to the role of Diello in the slick Five Fingers directed by Joseph Mankiewicz.
Though the role calls for Mason to be crude and out-of-control, the deep sophistication saves Norman Maine from becoming a boorish and unredeemable character.
www.filmsondisc.com /posterarchive/Mason/james_mason.htm   (600 words)

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