Paul Mason
Early life and Education
Mason was raised by his mother, Wendy, an orthopedic physiotherapist, after his father, Ray, was killed in the war. He was 18 months old when his father was killed.
He was sent to boarding schools at 15 and became part of a play-reading group at 18. In his last year, Mason produced and performed in a one-act play sparking his interest in acting. He was also the Drum Major in the school military band in the year of the Centenary of the Combined Cadet Force. This was a big deal for the school and Mason, and on leaving school, he was persuaded to join the army. He went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for 2 years, after which he joined the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, where he spent 3 years in Germany and trained recruits in England.
On leaving the army, Mason was accepted into the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he completed the 2-year course in 1968.
Career
In 1969, Mason did weekly Rep at The Grand Theatre Wolverhampton, playing roles such as Frank Crawley in Rebecca, Hugo Birch in Spider's Web, Joe Chandler in The Lodger, and Sgt. Cadwallader in The Unexpected Guest. The same year, he did fortnightly rep at the Civic Theatre Chesterfield, he played Pte. Williams in The Hostage, Harold in Spring and Port Wine, Ed Mason in The Wooden Dish, Capt. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice, Murray the Cop in The Odd Couple, Freddie in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, several roles in Under Milk Wood, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Malcolm in Macbeth, and Joe Gascoigne in The Daughter in Law.
In 1970, he performed in 2 farces at The Opera House, Jersey, before landing the plum role of Lt. Fothergill in Conduct Unbecoming in 1971 at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End for 10 months. This earned him the roles of Argi in Narrow Road to the Deep North (1972) and a doctor in A Streetcar Named Desire (1973) at the Bristol Old Vic.
After a chance meeting with Australian actor Nick Tate, Mason decided to head to Australia with his wife and 2 small children. Soon after moving, he played a TV role in Silent Number, and 3 weeks later, he was offered the leading role of Dr. Peter Reynolds, a naive doctor new to Sydney, in the teleplay Pig in a Poke for the ABC.[1][2]
After Pig in a Poke, Mason played the villainous Captain Farrar, a regular role in the TV series Rush again for the ABC.[3] Pig in a Poke then went into a 5 episode series dealing with different social situations. In 1976, the program was considered ahead of its time and won a Logie for the writers John Dingwall and Margaret Kelly.
Mason continued in theatre, television, and film for the next 18 years when he started teaching drama to young actors through their agency, which led to after-school Drama classes for Primary and secondary school children.
Mason founded his drama school, The Edge Theatre Company, where he taught children and adults and continued to do so until 2014 at age 72.
He has since written his autobiography Behind the Scenes.[4]
Theatre In Australia
| Title | Role | Theatre |
| Doctors Dilemma | Louis Dubedat | MelbourneTheatre Co. |
| Aren't we all | Willie Tatham | Twelfth Night Th. Brisbane |
| The Norman Conquests | Norman (lead) | Perth Playhouse |
| Same Square of Dust | Charles Kingsford-Smith | Perth Playhouse |
| Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio (lead) | Bondi PavilionTheatre |
| Rookery Nook | Putz | Marion St.Theatre |
| Mothers and Fathers | Bernard (lead) | Twelfth Night |
| Dolls House | Torvald (lead) | Canberra Theatre |
| Knuckle | Curly (lead) | Ensemble Theatre |
| Accidental death of an Anarchist | Bertozzo | Belvoir St. Theatre |
| The Lover. One Act Play | (lead) | Lunch Box Theatre |
| The Flaw. One Act Play | (lead) | Lunch Box Theatre |
| Corpse | Major Powell | Laycock St. Theatre |
| Run for your Wife | Det.Sgt. Troughton | Criterion Th. London |
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Episodes |
| 2009 | Dungoona (TV film) | Mr. Ingram. | |
| 2002 | All Saints (TV Series) | Dr. Schaeffer | |
| 1992 | Resistance | Military Propaganda | |
| 1991 | GP (TV Series) | Doug Budd | |
| 1991 | Rafferty's Rules (TV Series) | Jeremy Prince | |
| 1991 | Strangers (TV Movie) | Sergeant | |
| 1989 | Mission: Impossible (TV Series) | Fordley | |
| 1988 | After Marcuse (TV Movie) | Laurence | |
| 1987 | Great Expectations: The Untold Story (TV Movie) | Rev. Thwaites | |
| 1986 | A Country Practice (TV Series) | Barry Young | - Friends for Life: Part 2 |
| - Friends for Life: Part 1 | |||
| 1986 | Pokerface (TV Series) | Snow | - Episode #1.3 |
| - Episode #1.2 | |||
| - Episode #1.1 | |||
| 1985 | Sons and Daughters (TV Series) | Eric Tate | - Episode #1.627 |
| - Episode #1.622 | |||
| - Episode #1.621 | |||
| 1985 | The Dunera Boys (TV Mini-Series) | - Episode #1.2 | |
| - Episode #1.1 | |||
| 1984 | The Last Bastion (TV Mini-Series) | Air Chief Marshal Brooke-Popham | - Part 3 |
| - Part 2 | |||
| - Part 1 | |||
| 1984 | The Explorers (TV Series documentary) | Edward John Eyre | - East to West |
| 1984 | Five Mile Creek (TV Series) | Reverend Powell | - Gold Fever |
| 1983 | The Dean Case (TV Movie)[5][6] | Paddy Crick | |
| 1980-1983 | Secret Valley (TV Series) | Ranger Morgan | - Lost in the Bush |
| - Secret Valley bush fire | |||
| - Save the bunyip | |||
| - Super scoop | |||
| - The horse who could dance | |||
| 1982 | Home Sweet Home (TV Series) | Monk | - The Good Samaritan |
| 1981 | Holiday Island (TV Series) | - Hostage Crisis | |
| 1981 | Cop Shop (TV Series) | George Bradley | - Episode #1.286 |
| - Episode #1.285 | |||
| 1980 | The Last Outlaw (TV Mini-Series) | George King | - Episode #1.4 |
| - Episode #1.3 | |||
| - Episode #1.2 | |||
| - Episode #1.1 | |||
| 1979 | A Place in the World (TV Mini-Series)[7] | Les Crimmond | - The Men |
| - A Family Man | |||
| 1979 | One Day Miller (TV Series) | - New Day | |
| - Long Day | |||
| - Moving Day | |||
| - Day Out | |||
| - The First Day | |||
| - The Big Day | |||
| - Birthday | |||
| 1979 | Temperament Unsuited | Visual Aids Tutor | |
| 1977 | Pig in a Poke (TV Series) | Dr. Peter Reynolds | - Lisa's Story |
| - Ray's Story | |||
| - Christina's Story | |||
| - Theo's Story | |||
| - The Ginny's Story | |||
| 1977 | The Young Doctors (TV Series) | Mike Neilsen | - Episode #1.170 |
| - Episode #1.169 | |||
| - Episode #1.168 (1977) ... Mike Neilsen | |||
| - Episode #1.167 (1977) ... Mike Neilsen | |||
| - Episode #1.166 | |||
| - Episode #1.165 | |||
| - Episode #1.164 | |||
| - Episode #1.163 (1977) ... Mike Neilsen (credit only) | |||
| - Episode #1.162 | |||
| - Episode #1.161 | |||
| - Episode #1.160 | |||
| - Episode #1.159 | |||
| - Episode #1.158 | |||
| - Episode #1.157 | |||
| - Episode #1.156 | |||
| - Episode #1.155 | |||
| - Episode #1.154 | |||
| - Episode #1.153 | |||
| - Episode #1.152 | |||
| - Episode #1.151 | |||
| - Episode #1.150 | |||
| - Episode #1.149 | |||
| - Episode #1.148 | |||
| - Episode #1.147 | |||
| - Episode #1.146 | |||
| - Episode #1.145 | |||
| - Episode #1.144 | |||
| - Episode #1.143 | |||
| - Episode #1.142 | |||
| - Episode #1.141 | |||
| - Episode #1.140 | |||
| - Episode #1.139 | |||
| - Episode #1.138 | |||
| - Episode #1.137 | |||
| - Episode #1.136 | |||
| 1976 | Rush (TV Series) | Captain Richard Farrar | - A Shilling a Day |
| - The Second Oldest Trade | |||
| - You Just Can't Win | |||
| - Live to Fight Another Day | |||
| - Farrar's Pride | |||
| - La Belle France | |||
| - The New Golden Mountain | |||
| - The Great Eastern Bubble | |||
| - Welcome Back Sergeant McKellar | |||
| 1975 | Quality of Mercy (TV Series) | - Sally Go Round the Moon | |
| 1975 | Behind the Legend (TV Series) | Matthew Flinders | - Matthew Flinders |
| 1974-1975 | Certain Women (TV Series) | - Episode dated 26 February 1975 | |
| - Episode dated 11 December 1974 | |||
| 1974 | Silent Number (TV Series)[8] | - A Song of Sweet Futility |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Paul Vane-Mason Net Worth 2022: Wiki Bio, Married, Dating, Family, Height, Age, Ethnicity" (in en-US). 2015-12-12. https://networthpost.org/net-worth/paul-vane-mason-net-worth/.
- ↑ Pig in a Poke (Drama), 1977-07-24, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376416/, retrieved 2022-12-07
- ↑ "Vol. 099 No. 5069 (6 Aug 1977)" (in en). https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1544327255.
- ↑ Mason, 1st, Paul (2023-03-15) (in en). Behind the Scenes: Life of a Soldier, Actor and Teacher. Paul mason. ISBN 978-0-646-83612-6. https://books.google.com.pk/books/about/Behind_the_Scenes.html?id=n31YzgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y.
- ↑ Dobson, Kevin James (1983-02-26), The Dean Case (Drama), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4493950/?ref_=tttg_ql, retrieved 2022-12-07
- ↑ "The Dean Case (1983) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/the-dean-case-1983/2416/.
- ↑ A Place in the World (TV Mini Series 1979) - IMDb, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428148/fullcredits, retrieved 2022-12-07
- ↑ "Paul Mason" (in en-US). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556897/.
