James Mason
North By NorthwestA Star is Born
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Wednesday 25 March
James Mason was both a romantic leading man and a glowering, saturnine villain - a quintessentially English performer who moved, with effortless ease, into the ranks of Hollywood's greats. By his own admission he was a character actor who made the leap to leading man status and, for more than ten years, he populated a kaleidoscopic array of pictures for directors as diverse as Reed, Ray, Hitchcock and Kubrick. To celebrate the centenary of Mason's birth Bradford International Film Festival is proud to present this tribute from a career spanning more than six decades.
