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Herbert Mason est un Réalisateur et Unit Manager Britannique né le 7 avril 1891 à Birmingham (Royaume-uni)
Not to be confused with Herbert Mason the photographer who photographed St Paul's Survives (1940).
Samuel George Herbert Mason MC (7 April 1891 – 20 May 1960) was a British film director, producer, stage actor, army officer, presenter of some revues, stage manager, stage director, choreographer, production manager and playwright. He was a recipient of the Military Cross the prestigious award for "gallantry during active operations against the enemy." He received the gallantry award for his part in the Battle of Guillemont where British troops defeated the Germans to take the German stronghold of Guillemont.
Mason began his theatrical career at the age of 16 and appeared in several productions at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre including Barry Jackson's The Christmas Party. During the 1920s he stage managed some of the largest shows in London (including many of Andre Charlot's musical revues) and began his film career with the arrival of sound in motion pictures. Mason was the Assistant director for I Was a Spy, which was very successful in the box office and voted best film of the year. He made his debut as director in 1936 with The First Offence. His most prominent film was A Window in London a dark thriller set in the London Underground, which was a remake of the original French drama film Metropolitan. Another successful film included Take My Tip, in which he directed Jack Hulbert whose "dances [were] beautifully staged."
Several rising actors and actresses (including Vivien Leigh) made their film debuts in some of his films before they rose to prominence. He worked for several studios and production companies including Gaumont British, Gainsborough Pictures, London Films and MGM-British Studios. Mason directed 16 films (from thrillers to comedies), moved into producing for the rest of his career and authored some plays with his wife Daisy Fisher, a novelist and playwright also with a background in theatre.
His films were generally very well received, and some of them were marked out for the inventiveness of the plot, locations used for shooting and humour. Some of his films are remembered for introducing rising actors and actresses to the screen before they became famous.
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Nom de naissance Samuel George Herbert Mason
Nationalité Royaume-uni
Naissance 7 avril 1891 à Birmingham (Royaume-uni)
Mort 20 mai 1960 (à 69 ans) à Londres (Royaume-uni)
Nationalité Royaume-uni
Naissance 7 avril 1891 à Birmingham (Royaume-uni)
Mort 20 mai 1960 (à 69 ans) à Londres (Royaume-uni)
Samuel George Herbert Mason MC (7 April 1891 – 20 May 1960) was a British film director, producer, stage actor, army officer, presenter of some revues, stage manager, stage director, choreographer, production manager and playwright. He was a recipient of the Military Cross the prestigious award for "gallantry during active operations against the enemy." He received the gallantry award for his part in the Battle of Guillemont where British troops defeated the Germans to take the German stronghold of Guillemont.
Mason began his theatrical career at the age of 16 and appeared in several productions at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre including Barry Jackson's The Christmas Party. During the 1920s he stage managed some of the largest shows in London (including many of Andre Charlot's musical revues) and began his film career with the arrival of sound in motion pictures. Mason was the Assistant director for I Was a Spy, which was very successful in the box office and voted best film of the year. He made his debut as director in 1936 with The First Offence. His most prominent film was A Window in London a dark thriller set in the London Underground, which was a remake of the original French drama film Metropolitan. Another successful film included Take My Tip, in which he directed Jack Hulbert whose "dances [were] beautifully staged."
Several rising actors and actresses (including Vivien Leigh) made their film debuts in some of his films before they rose to prominence. He worked for several studios and production companies including Gaumont British, Gainsborough Pictures, London Films and MGM-British Studios. Mason directed 16 films (from thrillers to comedies), moved into producing for the rest of his career and authored some plays with his wife Daisy Fisher, a novelist and playwright also with a background in theatre.
His films were generally very well received, and some of them were marked out for the inventiveness of the plot, locations used for shooting and humour. Some of his films are remembered for introducing rising actors and actresses to the screen before they became famous.
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Flight from Folly (1945)
, 1h34Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Musical
Thèmes Musique
Acteurs Pat Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair, Tamara Desni, Jean Gillie, A. E. Matthews, Charles Goldner
When his muse and girlfriend Nina (Tamara Desni) takes off with a continental lothario, composer and playwright Clinton Clay (Sinclair) is devastated and turns to drink for solace. His doctor (Sydney Howard) tries, with the help of Clinton's butler Neville (A. E. Matthews), to get him to pull himself together but all attempts fail as Clinton's behaviour becomes ever more unbalanced and every nurse they engage is sent on her way by him in quick order.
It's in the Bag (1944)
, 1h20Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Ernest Butcher, Reginald Purdell, Irene Handl, Vera Bogetti, Megs Jenkins, Anthoney Holles
Note53%
The Night Invader (1943)
, 1h21Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Guerre, Thriller
Thèmes Documentaire sur la guerre, Documentaire historique, Politique, Documentaire sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Acteurs Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Sybille Binder, Carl Jaffe, Marius Goring, Kynaston Reeves
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?
Back-Room Boy (1942)
, 1h22Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Espionnage
Thèmes Espionnage, Politique
Acteurs Moore Marriott, Arthur Askey, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Vera Frances, Joyce Howard
Note61%
Arthur Askey plays meteorologist Arthur Pilbeam who is jilted by his fiancée Betty because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips. As he cannot be fired during wartime and wanting to avoid all women, he is assigned the solitary job of sending weather reports from a remote Scottish lighthouse. Before taking a boat from the mainland during the four hours of daylight that are available for the time of year, the locals warn him he will go mad from isolation and the curse of a mermaid within a month as others have.
The Silent Battle (1942)
, 1h13Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Acteurs Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson, John Loder, Muriel Aked, George Devine, Carl Jaffe
Note17%
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941)
, 7minutesRéalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Thèmes Transport, Aviation, Documentaire sur la guerre, Documentaire historique, Politique, Documentaire sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Acteurs Muriel George, Wylie Watson, Irene Handl, Aubrey Mallalieu, Albert Lieven, Michael Wilding
Note58%
Mr. Proudfoot is an attention-seeking bore who subjects his long-suffering wife and exasperated acquaintances to endless tall tales about narrow escapes from bombs. He also teases the local blackout warden for his ridiculous pettiness when it comes to enforcing blackout restrictions.
Fingers (1941)
, 1h9Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Acteurs Clifford Evans, Leonora Corbett, Esmond Knight, Edward Rigby, Roland Culver, Reginald Purdell
Once a Crook (1941)
, 1h18Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Policier
Acteurs Gordon Harker, Kathleen Harrison, Carla Lehmann, Bernard Lee, Cyril Cusack, Diana King
Charlie Hopkins (Gordon Harker) is a retired burglar with an expertise in safecracking. His ex-partner The Duke (Bernard Lee) holds a grudge against Charlie, since he believes he ratted him out and sent him to jail. The Duke is out for revenge against Charlie, and hires Bill Hopkins (Cyril Cusack), Charlie's son, to help him perform a hit, with an intention to frame the kid. The Duke's plan doesn't work out, since Bill turns out to be an even better safecracker than his old man. After many complications along the road, the hit is a success, and The Duke is bereaved of his revenge, ultimately stopped by his good-hearted sweetheart, Estelle (Carla Lehmann).
Dr. O'Dowd (1940)
, 1h16Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Acteurs Peggy Cummins, Felix Aylmer, Mary Merrall, Irene Handl, Patricia Roc, Walter Hudd
Marius O'Dowd (Shaun Glenville) is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira (Pamela Wood) dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing. Although O'Dowd is not to blame, his son Stephen (Liam Gaffney) suspects that Moira died due to O'Dowd operating while under the influence of alcohol, and accuses him of criminal neglect. O'Dowd consequently has his license to practice medicine taken away. Stephen also does not tell his daughter Pat (Peggy Cummins) that Marius is her grandfather, although several years later she becomes friends with Marius and works this out. Marius eventually manages to redeem himself by saving Stephen's life during an outbreak of diphtheria.
A Window in London (1940)
, 1h17Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller
Acteurs Michael Redgrave, Sally Gray, Paul Lukas, Hartley Power, Patricia Roc, Glen Alyn
Note64%
Pat (Patricia Roc), a hotel switchboard operator and Peter (Michael Redgrave) a crane operator are a happy well meaning couple, however because of their different shifts during the day they have no time for each other. While he works during the day on the construction of Waterloo Bridge his patient wife works during the night on a hotel telephone exchange. One morning on his way to work, Peter goes on the London Underground train and spots what seems to be a murder being committed on at the open window of a building overlooking the tracks. Deciding to investigate this "crime" Peter and a policeman arrive at the residence. There they find out that the couple were in fact rehearsing an illusion. Zoltini is a bad tempered magician and his wife Vivienne (Sally Gray) is his assistant. The suspicious magician becomes sure that his wife is having an affair with Peter - every time he sees her with the handsome stranger. On another night Zoltini and Vivienne have an argument on the backstage - leading to him slapping her in the face. As a result, Vivienne leaves (while her husband performs on stage) and takes a taxi with Peter up to his crane. Furious with Vivienne for leaving during the 'vanishing women' sequence of their performance, Zoltini looks for his wife while Pat has been sacked from the hotel for not paying attention to her job.
The Briggs Family (1940)
, 1h9Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Felix Aylmer, Jane Baxter, Edward Chapman, Mary Clare, Lesley Brook, Jack Melford
Note63%
Strange Boarders (1938)
, 1h14Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Comédie
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs Renée Saint-Cyr, Tom Walls, Googie Withers, Ronald Adam, C.V. France, Nina Boucicault
Note68%
A seemingly innocuous and respectable elderly lady is knocked down and critically injured by a bus on a London street. When the police search her handbag to find out her identity, they are astonished to discover a series of top secret military blueprints. The secret service are alerted and arrive at the hospital to question her, but she laughs in their faces before quietly dying.
Take My Tip (1937)
, 1h14Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Musical
Thèmes Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Harold Huth, Frank Cellier, Frank Pettingell, Eliot Makeham
East Meets West (1936)
, 1h14Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs George Arliss, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Romney Brent, Ballard Berkeley, Ronald Ward
Note60%
A small Middle Eastern state is coveted by the major powers for strategic reasons.
The First Offence (1936)
, 1h6Réalisé par Herbert Mason
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Acteurs John Mills, Lilli Palmer, Bernard Nedell, Marcel Maupi, Judy Kelly
Note57%
A wealthy doctor's rich and spoiled son, Johnnie Penrose joins a gang of car thieves in France after being denied a car by his father.