Tom Mason

Actor: Tom Mason

Born: Mar 01, 19zz in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor
Active: '70s-'90s
Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Nightmare in the Daylight, Looking for an Echo, Whatever It Takes
First Major Screen Credit: The Aliens Are Coming (1980)

Biography

Tom Mason has been showing up in films and (especially) TV since the late 1970s. He played Archie to Thayer David's Nero Wolfe in a 1979 TV pilot, and starred as Tim "Freebie" Walker in the 1980 TV version of Freebie and the Bean. His subsequent weekly-TV credits include the roles of Jim Daley in Two Marriages, Sergeant McKay in Our Family Honor (1985), Mike Brennan in Jack and Myke (1986), and, most recently, restaurant manager Joe Mangus in the Fox Network's "succes d'estime" Party of Five (1995- ). Either by accident or design, Mason has shown up in quite a few "torn from today's headlines" TV movies: A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story, Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer?: The Bambi Bembenek Story, The Amy Fisher Story, etc. Once in a while, Tom Mason has been able to tear himself away from his busy TV schedule to accept a role in a theatrical film, notably President Douglas in 1994's The Puppet Masters. Tom Mason should not be confused with the "Tom Mason" who served as associate producer for the infamous Edward D. Wood Jr. in the 1950s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Tom Mason
Mason in Plan 9 From Outer Space
Born	Thomas Robert Mason April 29, 1920(1920-04-29) Illinois, U.S.
Died	December 1, 1980 (aged 60) Orange, California, U.S.
Occupation	Chiropractor, actor

For other people called Thomas Mason, see Thomas Mason (disambiguation).

Thomas Robert "Tom" Mason (April 29, 1920 – December 1, 1980) was a chiropractor who lived in Los Angeles in the 1950s. He is best known as the stand-in for the then recently deceased Bela Lugosi in Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s infamous movie Plan 9 From Outer Space. Dr. Mason, who was taller than and bore a questionable physical resemblance to Lugosi, hunched over with a cape held over his face in all of his scenes.^[1]^[2]

Dr. Mason appeared in and helped to produce a couple of Wood's other movies, Night of the Ghouls (in which he was allowed to show his face) and Final Curtain, after which his career in showbiz ended. He died in 1980.

In popular culture

Dr. Mason was portrayed by actor Ned Bellamy in the 1994 film Ed Wood.^[3]

References

^ Rhodes, Gary Don (1997). Lugosi: His Life In Films, On Stage, and In the Hearts of Horror Lovers. McFarland. pp. 145. ISBN 0-786-40257-1.
^ Vinciguerra, Thomas (2006-06-04). "IDEAS & TRENDS; When the Acting Is a Little Stiff, What's a Director to Do?". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDA1731F937A35755C0A9609C8B63. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
^ "Ned Bellamy Biography ((?)-)". filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Ned-Bellamy.html. Retrieved 2009-11-04.

External links

Tom Mason at the Internet Movie Database

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NAME	Mason, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mason, Thomas Robert
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Chiropractor, actor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Illinois, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1980
PLACE OF DEATH	Orange, California, U.S.

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