Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1917-09-04

Deathday

2006-09-05 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Birmingham, England, UK

Hilary Mason

Biography

Hilary Lavender Mason (4 September 1917 – 5 September 2006) was an English character actress who appeared in a wide variety of roles, mainly on UK television. She is probably best known internationally for her performance as the blind psychic in Nicolas Roeg's film Don't Look Now. In later years Mason appeared as Gladys in the popular children's TV show Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

Known For

6.9%

Don't Look Now

Oct 11, 1973

8.1%

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Jan 8, 1989

6.4%

Dolls

Oct 27, 1986

8.1%

Sherlock Holmes

Apr 24, 1984

6.1%

Haunted

Oct 27, 1995

7.9%

The Young Ones

Nov 9, 1982

5.5%

Robot Jox

Oct 1, 1989

7.5%

One Foot In the Grave

Jan 4, 1990

7.3%

Lovejoy

Jan 10, 1986

6.7%

Tales of the Unexpected

Mar 24, 1979

4.6%

Meridian

Nov 10, 1990

6.5%

Absolution

Jun 5, 1978

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Acting

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A Wedding

1997

Aquila as Mrs. Murray

1995		Coogan's Run
1995		Haunted as Elderly Lady

1994		Wycliffe as Edith Riddle
1994		Pie in the Sky as Mrs. Lonsdale

1993		The Last Vampyre as Miss Ruddock
1993		The Detectives as First Old Lady

1991

Afraid of the Dark as Basement Woman

1990		Meridian as Martha
1990		One Foot In the Grave as Elspeth

1989		Maid Marian and Her Merry Men as Gladys
1989		Robot Jox as Professor Laplace
1989		The Heat of the Day as Mrs. Tringsby
1989		Campion as Mrs. Munsey
1989		Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Hill

1988

An Affair in Mind as Miss Platt

1986		All Passion Spent as Edith
1986		Dolls as Hilary Hartwicke
1986		Lovejoy as Mrs. Greenlands

1985		Three Up, Two Down as Joan
1985		Miss Marple: The Moving Finger as Emily Barton

1984		Miss Marple as Emily Barton
1984		The Bill
1984		Sherlock Holmes as Miss Ruddock
1984		Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt as Mother Cyrene

1983

The Return of the Soldier as Ward

1982		Ghost in the Water as Nan
1982		The Young Ones as Old Woman Next Door
1982		Brendon Chase as Beatrix Holcombe

1981		Bergerac as Aunt Annie
1981		Bergerac as Miss Amberton
1981		Days as Mother
1981		A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as Kidderminster

1979		Minder as Mrs. Mayhew
1979		The Legend of King Arthur as Midwife
1979		Tales of the Unexpected as Mrs Pardoe
1979		Worzel Gummidge as Miss Fogg

1978		The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Medium
1978		Absolution as Miss Froggatt

1977		The Three Hostages as Mrs Medina
1977		The Curse of the Claw as Kevin's Mother
1977		Nicholas Nickleby as Mrs. Nickleby

1976		The Phoenix and the Carpet
1976		The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976		Early Struggles as Mum
1976		I Don't Want to Be Born as Mrs. Hyde

1975		84 Charing Cross Road as Voice of Joan Todd
1975		Poldark as Mrs. Carne
1975		My Brother's Keeper
1975		Angels

1974

Within These Walls

1973

Don't Look Now as Heather

1971		Just Love as Mrs Herbert
1971		Justice as Mrs. Garside

1970		Play for Today
1970		Macbeth as Witch
1970		The Six Wives of Henry VIII as Lady Boleyn

1969		Paul Temple
1969		Counterstrike
1969		The Main Chance as Agnes McLaren

1965		BBC Play of the Month as Mrs. Elton
1965		United!

1963

Omnibus for All as Commentator

1962

Suspense

1961

The Wedding as Bride's Mother

1960		Maigret
1960		Who Pays the Piper?
1960		Rockets in the Dunes as Mrs. Allen