James Mason in "North By Northwest" in 1959.
(Warner Home Video via Reuters)
The thinking man’s movie star
Handsome yet remote, James Mason broke the mold of a Hollywood idol
James Mason in "North By Northwest" in 1959.
(Warner Home Video via Reuters)
James Mason is a category of one. Too handsome and substantial to be a supporting player, he was too dark, too aloof ever to last as a true romantic lead - too much a classical actor to be a matinee idol, and vice versa. Think of him as a kind of Flying Dutchman doomed never to have a port of ... (Full article: 881 words)
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