Hilary Mason

Acting

Born September 4, 1917, Birmingham, England, UK

Hilary Lavender Mason 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.

Filmography

• The Last Salute — Lady Gilbert
• Aquila — Mrs. Murray
• 1995Haunted — Elderly lady
• Pie in the Sky — Mrs. Lonsdale
• Wycliffe — Edith Riddle
• 1993The Last Vampyre — Miss Ruddock
• 1992Afraid of the Dark — Basement Woman
• 1990Meridian — Martha
• One Foot in the Grave — Elspeth
• 1990Robot Jox — Professor Laplace
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Mrs. Hill
• Campion — Mrs. Munsey
• Great Expectations — Mrs Fagge
• Maid Marian and Her Merry Men — Gladys
• 1989The Heat of the Day — Mrs. Tringsby
• 1988An Affair in Mind — Miss Platt
• ChuckleVision — Old Lady
• Crossbow
• 1987Dolls — Hilary Hartwicke
• 1986All Passion Spent — Edith
• David Copperfield — Meg Gummidge
• Lovejoy — Mrs. Greenlands
• Worlds Beyond — Mrs Robson
• Anna of the Five Towns — Sarah Vodrey
• In Sickness and in Health — Dorothy
• Miss Marple: The Moving Finger — Emily Barton
• Three Up, Two Down — Joan
• Miss Marple — Emily Barton
• Sherlock Holmes — Miss Ruddock
• 1984Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt — Mother Cyrene
• The Bill
• 1983The Return of the Soldier — Ward
• Brendon Chase — Beatrix Holcombe
• 1982Ghost in the Water — Nan
• The Young Ones — Old Woman Next Door
• 1981A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter — Kidderminster
• Bergerac — Aunt Annie
• 1981Days — Mother
• That Beryl Marston...! — Auntie Vera
• Sink or Swim — Mrs O'Day
• 1980The Trial of Lady Chatterley — Joan Bennett
• 1979An Honourable Retirement — Mrs. Langton
• Minder — Mrs. Mayhew
• Tales of the Unexpected — Mrs Pardoe
• The Legend of King Arthur — Midwife
• Thomas & Sarah — Mrs Sedley
• Worzel Gummidge — Miss Fogg
• 1978Absolution — Miss Froggatt
• 1978The One and Only Phyllis Dixey — Medium
• Wilde Alliance — Rachel
• Nicholas Nickleby — Mrs. Nickleby
• 1977The Curse of the Claw — Kevin's Mother
• 1977The Three Hostages — Mrs Medina
• 1976Early Struggles — Mum
• 1976I Don't Want to Be Born — Mrs. Hyde
• The Duchess of Duke Street — Miss Hayward
• 1976The House of Bernarda Alba — Prudencia
• The Phoenix and the Carpet — Mrs Biddle
• 197584 Charing Cross Road — Voice of Joan Todd
• Angels
• My Brother's Keeper
• Poldark — Mrs Carne
• Affairs of the Heart — Lavinia Penniman
• Playhouse — Kidderminster, Mother
• 1973Don't Look Now — Heather
• Love and Mr Lewisham — Mrs. Chaffery
• Mistress of Hardwick — Bess
• 1971Just Love — Mrs Herbert
• Justice — Mrs. Garside
• 1971She'll Follow You Anywhere — Jackie's Mother
• 1971The Uninvited — Jessica Ramsay
• 1970Macbeth — Witch
• Play for Today
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII — Lady Boleyn
• Counterstrike — Hannah Webley
• Paul Temple
• The Main Chance — Agnes McLaren
• Boy Meets Girl — Matron, Mrs Last
• BBC Play of the Month — Witch, Mrs. Elton
• It's Not Me - It's Them!
• Out of the Unknown — Jessica Ramsay
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Lilian Lovell, Martha Fallon
• United! — Mrs. Timothy
• Story Parade — Edith Coppard
• Festival — Nanine, Chorus of Women of Canterbury
• 1963Omnibus for All — Commentator
• 1961The Wedding — Bride's Mother
• Maigret
• 1960Rockets in the Dunes — Mrs. Allen
• 1960Who Pays the Piper?
• A Wedding