Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 4, 1917
Place of Birth:
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.
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Haunted | Elderly lady |
| 1993 | The Last Vampyre | Miss Ruddock |
| 1991 | Afraid of the Dark | Basement Woman |
| 1990 | Robot Jox | Professor Laplace |
| 1990 | Meridian | Martha |
| 1989 | The Heat of the Day | Mrs. Tringsby |
| 1988 | An Affair in Mind | Miss Platt |
| 1986 | Dolls | Hilary Hartwicke |
| 1986 | All Passion Spent | Edith |
| 1984 | Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt | Mother Cyrene |
| 1983 | The Return of the Soldier | Ward |
| 1982 | Ghost in the Water | Nan |
| 1981 | A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter | Kidderminster |
| 1981 | Days | Mother |
| 1980 | The Trial of Lady Chatterley | Joan Bennett |
| 1978 | The One and Only Phyllis Dixey | Medium |
| 1978 | Absolution | Miss Froggatt |
| 1977 | The Three Hostages | Mrs Medina |
| 1977 | The Curse of the Claw | Kevin's Mother |
| 1976 | I Don't Want to Be Born | Mrs. Hyde |
| 1976 | Early Struggles | Mum |
| 1975 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Voice of Joan Todd |
| 1973 | Don't Look Now | Heather |
| 1971 | Just Love | Mrs Herbert |
| 1970 | Macbeth | Witch |
| 1963 | Omnibus for All | Commentator |
| 1961 | The Wedding | Bride's Mother |
| 1960 | Who Pays the Piper? | |
| 1960 | Rockets in the Dunes | Mrs. Allen |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The Last Salute | Lady Gilbert |
| 1997 | Aquila | Mrs. Murray |
| 1995 | Coogan's Run | |
| 1994 | Wycliffe | Edith Riddle |
| 1994 | Pie in the Sky | Mrs. Lonsdale |
| 1990 | One Foot in the Grave | Elspeth |
| 1989 | Campion | Mrs. Munsey |
| 1989 | Maid Marian and Her Merry Men | Gladys |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Mrs. Hill |
| 1989 | Great Expectations | Mrs Fagge |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Mrs. Greenlands |
| 1986 | David Copperfield | Meg Gummidge |
| 1985 | Miss Marple: The Moving Finger | Emily Barton |
| 1985 | Three Up, Two Down | Joan |
| 1985 | In Sickness and in Health | Dorothy |
| 1984 | The Bill | |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Miss Ruddock |
| 1982 | The Young Ones | Old Woman Next Door |
| 1982 | Brendon Chase | Beatrix Holcombe |
| 1981 | Bergerac | Aunt Annie |
| 1981 | That Beryl Marston...! | Auntie Vera |
| 1980 | Sink or Swim | Mrs O'Day |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Mrs Pardoe |
| 1979 | Minder | Mrs. Mayhew |
| 1979 | The Legend of King Arthur | Midwife |
| 1979 | Worzel Gummidge | Miss Fogg |
| 1978 | Wilde Alliance | Rachel |
| 1977 | Nicholas Nickleby | Mrs. Nickleby |
| 1976 | The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin | |
| 1976 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | Mrs Biddle |
| 1975 | Angels | |
| 1975 | My Brother's Keeper | |
| 1975 | Poldark | Mrs Carne |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Kidderminster |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Mother |
| 1971 | Justice | Mrs. Garside |
| 1970 | Play for Today | |
| 1970 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | Lady Boleyn |
| 1969 | Counterstrike | |
| 1969 | Paul Temple | |
| 1969 | The Main Chance | Agnes McLaren |
| 1965 | United! | |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Witch |
| 1965 | It's Not Me - It's Them! | |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Mrs. Elton |
| 1965 | Out of the Unknown | Jessica Ramsay |
| 1964 | Story Parade | Edith Coppard |
| 1963 | Festival | Nanine |
| 1963 | Festival | Chorus of Women of Canterbury |
| 1960 | Maigret | |
| A Wedding |