Bill Mason (director)

Mason was born in Kings Norton, Birmingham, England to Elsie Ann (née Berkeley) and Edward Daniel Mason; Elsie's father Rowland Hill Berkeley had been Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1904-1905.

[4][5][6] In the 1940s, he moved to Hampstead Heath, London,[7] with his wife and son Nick Mason, who became the drummer of Pink Floyd.

[1] A filmmaker and amateur racing car driver, because of a lifelong passion for motor sports Bill Mason specialized in observing them as a maker of documentary films.

[7] His enthusiasm for the world of motoring was passed on to his son Nick, who wrote about them in his book Into the Red (2004).

[8][9] Mason's success was such that Nick was given an Aston Martin sports car as a teenager.

Mason (right) making a documentary of the 1953 Mille Miglia endurance race in Italy 25–26 April 1953, here sitting in the Ferrari 166 MM with owner and driver Alberico Cacciari.