Age of Consent is a 1969 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michael Powell. The film stars James Mason, Helen Mirren in her first major film role, and Jack MacGowran, and features actress Neva Carr Glyn. The screenplay by Peter Yeldham was adapted from the 1938 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Norman Lindsay, who died the year this film was released.
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James Neville Mason was an English actor. He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a star in Hollywood. He was the top box-office attraction in the UK in 1944 and 1945; his British films included The Seventh Veil (1945) and The Wicked Lady (1945). He starred in Odd Man Out (1947), the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
Mason, 1940s
Mason as Norman Maine in A Star is Born (1954)
Mason acted alongside Judy Garland in A Star is Born (1954)
Mason in Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959)