Sydney Mason

Sydney Mason

Born: January 27, 1905
Died: April 11, 1976
in Milton, Ulster County, New York, USA
Motion picture and television actor of the 1950s and 60s. Appeared in the 1950's sci-fi film classics "The War of the Worlds", "The Creature From the Black Lagoon", "Revenge of the Creature" and "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers".

Movies for Sydney Mason...

Secret File: Hollywood
Title: Secret File: Hollywood
Character: Charles 'Hap' Grogan (as Syd Mason)
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
A private eye (Robert Clarke) takes pictures for the publishers (Francine York, Syd Mason) of a scandal magazine.
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Wild Ones on Wheels
Title: Wild Ones on Wheels
Character: Duke Walker
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Greedy young thugs kidnap a dead man's wife in hopes that she can lead them to the location of a hidden fortune.
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Frontier Gun
Title: Frontier Gun
Character: Doc Studdeford
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
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Tales of Frankenstein
Title: Tales of Frankenstein
Character: Police Chief
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…
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Title: Maverick
Character: Mr. Lockridge
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Guns Don't Argue
Title: Guns Don't Argue
Character: Lieutenant Bill Baxter
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film.
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Title: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Character: Frank the garage man
Released: July 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
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A Day of Fury
Title: A Day of Fury
Character: Beemans
Released: May 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been settled between "his" people (i.e. the saloon-keepers, gamblers, etc.) and the righteous, "respectable" folk.
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Revenge of the Creature
Title: Revenge of the Creature
Character: Police Announcer (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1955
Type: Movie
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
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Dial Red O
Title: Dial Red O
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1955
Type: Movie
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
Title: Creature from the Black Lagoon
Character: Dr. Matos (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1954
Type: Movie
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
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The War of the Worlds
Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Fire Chief, Crew #3 (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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The Golden Blade
Title: The Golden Blade
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
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Trouble Along the Way
Title: Trouble Along the Way
Character: Priest
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Tom
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Apache Country
Title: Apache Country
Character: Walter Rayburn
Released: May 30, 1952
Type: Movie
A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities' attention from their own activities.
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Title: Craig Kennedy, Criminologist
Character: Insp. J.J. Burke
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
Craig Kennedy is a prominent scientist at a prestigious university. He uses his knowledge of chemistry plus newer devices such as lie detectors to solve difficult cases.
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Tall, Dark and Dead
Title: Tall, Dark and Dead
Character: Inspector Burke
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A 1952 crime film edited from tv series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist. A well-known stage star is shot at when he approaches the front door of Craig Kennedy's laboratory. Later, the actor is murdered in his backstage dressing room, and Kennedy, aided by Police Inspector J. J. Burke and Evening Star reporter Walt James, is drawn into one of his most bizarre adventures. Blamour, sex and publicity motivate the mystery, played before an intriguing background of Oriental stage-settings and theatrical backdrops. Passions, bot homicidal and amorous, almost lead to Kennedy's death at the hands of the killer.
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Title: I'll See You in My Dreams
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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Bright Victory
Title: Bright Victory
Character: Rev. Dr. Bannerman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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The Killer That Stalked New York
Title: The Killer That Stalked New York
Character: Sober Man (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.