Although a prolific television character actress for almost half a century, Hilary Mason will be best remembered on screen as the blind, psychic Heather in the macabre supernatural thriller "Don't Look Now". The 1973 film starred Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as John and Laura Baxter, a grieving couple holidaying in a wintry Venice after the death of their daughter, Christine, who was drowned in the garden pond while wearing a shiny, red mackintosh. When Laura meets the two spinster sisters in a restaurant toilet, she is shocked to be told that Heather has seen her daughter. "I've seen her and she wants you to know that she's happy," says the old woman: I've seen your little girl, sitting between you and your husband, and she was laughing. Yes, oh, yes, she's with you, my dear, and she's laughing. She's wearing a shiny little mac. She's laughing, she's laughing - she's happy as can be. Later, Laura attends a seance with the sisters and - when Heather gets what she claims to be a message from Christine - is disturbed to be told that her husband, John . Mason also appeared twice in One Foot In The Grave during the 1990s. She died in 2006 in Milton Keynes, England and left a husband of 50 years Roger Ostime, they had married in 1955 in Surrey.
Known for playing sinister roles, she is arguably best remembered for her blind psychic in the film Dont Look Now .
Started her career on the British stage in repertory.
Trained at the London School of Dramatic Art on a scholarship and subsequently acted in repertory in Preston, Southport, York and Guildford. During World War II, entertained troups as part of ENSA. Prolific character actress on British television from the mid-1950s. Her many memorable roles included one as Michael Palins puritanical mother in the "Curse of the Claw" episode of "Ripping Yarns" .
