Caption: Still of James Mason, Raquel Welch, James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon and Ian McShane in The Last of Sheila (1973)
																																				
						Actor, Producer, Writer
						Born: May 15, 1909
						Star sign: Taurus
						Height: 5' 11" (1.8 m)
						Known for: North by Northwest (1959), Lolita (1962), A Star Is Born (1954), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
						Source: IMDB
						James Mason was a great English actor of British and American films. He was born in Yorkshire, attended Marlborough and Cambridge, where he discovered acting on a lark and abandoned a planned career as an architect. Following work in stock companies, he joined the Old Vic under the guidance of Sir Tyrone Guthrie and of Alexander Korda, who gave ...