Hilary Mason

Born: 1917-09-04

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.


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Don't Look Now

as Heather
Released: 1973-01-18

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives...

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Absolution

as Miss Froggatt
Released: 1978-06-05

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with...

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Haunted

as Elderly Lady
Released: 1995-10-27

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve...

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Dolls

as Hilary Hartwicke
Released: 1986-10-27

A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman...

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Robot Jox

as Professor Laplace
Released: 1989-10-01

50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different...

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The Return of the Soldier

as Ward
Released: 1983-01-06

The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The...

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Meridian

as Martha
Released: 1990-11-10

After her father’s death, Catherine returns to her family’s gothic castle in Italy and gets...

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I Don't Want to Be Born

as Mrs. Hyde
Released: 1976-02-01

A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly...

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The Last Vampyre

as Miss Ruddock
Released: 1993-03-14

Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a...

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Afraid of the Dark

as Basement Woman
Released: 1991-10-10

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

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An Affair in Mind

as Miss Platt
Released: 1988-01-05

A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish...

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Ghost in the Water

as Nan
Released: 1982-12-31

Judith Allchurch and Ian Stevens star in this drama based on the story by Edward Chitham. When...

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Early Struggles

as Mum
Released: 1976-03-30

Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career...

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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

as Medium
Released: 1978-11-01

Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.

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All Passion Spent

as Edith
Released: 1986-12-09

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by...

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The Heat of the Day

as Mrs. Tringsby
Released: 1989-06-09

In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence...

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Days

as Mother
Released: 1981-02-27

'When I was your age I wanted to go to Italy more than anything in the world ... old buildings...

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A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

as Kidderminster
Released: 1981-01-30

In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged,...

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84 Charing Cross Road

as Voice of Joan Todd
Released: 1975-11-04

Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.

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The Curse of the Claw

as Kevin's Mother
Released: 1977-10-25

Sir Kevin Orr is anxious to return the Sacred Claw of the Naga hills given him as a child by his...

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Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

as Mother Cyrene
Released: 1984-03-10

A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a...

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Just Love

as Mrs Herbert
Released: 1971-11-21

A drama following the romance between Ed, who has a reputation for treating girls badly, and...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mrs. Hill
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Minder

as Mrs. Mayhew
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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The Young Ones

as Old Woman Next Door
First aired: 1982-11-09

The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the...

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Sherlock Holmes

as Miss Ruddock
First aired: 1984-04-24

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...

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Play for Today

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Mrs Pardoe
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Bergerac

as Aunt Annie
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Bergerac

as Miss Amberton
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Angels

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-01

Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print...

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Wycliffe

as Edith Riddle
First aired: 1994-07-24

Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective...

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The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

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Maigret

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

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Lovejoy

as Mrs. Greenlands
First aired: 1986-01-10

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...

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Pie in the Sky

as Mrs. Lonsdale
First aired: 1994-03-13

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Mrs. Elton
First aired: 1965-10-19

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...

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The Main Chance

as Agnes McLaren
First aired: 1969-06-18

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972...

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Poldark

as Mrs. Carne
First aired: 1975-10-05

Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local...

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Justice

as Mrs. Garside
First aired: 1971-10-08

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...

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One Foot In the Grave

as Elspeth
First aired: 1990-01-04

One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of...

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII

as Lady Boleyn
First aired: 1970-01-01

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization...

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The Detectives

as First Old Lady
First aired: 1993-01-27

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence -...

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Within These Walls

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-04

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for...

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Campion

as Mrs. Munsey
First aired: 1989-01-22

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written...

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Miss Marple

as Emily Barton
First aired: 1984-12-26

Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English...

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Paul Temple

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-11-23

Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple,...

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-09-08

Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis...

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Suspense

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-04-30

Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.

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Three Up, Two Down

as Joan
First aired: 1985-04-15

Comedy series about Nick and Angie, a young married couple, Angie's snobbish mother Daphne, and...

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The Legend of King Arthur

as Midwife
First aired: 1979-10-07

This 8-part drama brings high romance, low treachery and magical adventure via a host of...

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Worzel Gummidge

as Miss Fogg
First aired: 1979-02-25

Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on...

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Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

as Gladys
First aired: 1989-11-16

Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's sitcom created and written by Tony...

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Aquila

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-12-02

Aquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998. An...

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Coogan's Run

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-11-17

Coogan's Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living...

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Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

as Emily Barton
First aired: 1985-02-21

The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife...

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Brendon Chase

as Beatrix Holcombe
First aired: 1982-01-03

The three brothers Robin, John and Harold spend their vacations in 1925 on the country estate of...

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Nicholas Nickleby

as Mrs. Nickleby
First aired: 1977-03-27

Adaptation of the Dickens novel.

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The Phoenix and the Carpet

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-12-29

Adaptation of E Nesbit’s story about an Edwardian family in London, who experience a series of...

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