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Tom Mason is an American actor born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. He has appeared in movies such as Apocalypse Now, Flags of Our Fathers and Runaway Bride, and TV shows such as Law & Order and The Sopranos.
- January 1, 1
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Actor. Years active. 1977–present. Tom Mason is an American actor. He began his television career in 1977, portraying Rex Stout 's fictional detective Archie Goodwin in the ABC-TV movie Nero Wolfe. His subsequent TV credits include the series Grandpa Goes to Washington, Freebie and the Bean (1980), George Washington (1984), Our Family Honor ...
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- 1977–present
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"You still don't get it, do you?! You can kill me, you can put my head on a stick. You failed to learn the lesson for the second time! We will never surrender!"
—Tom Mason to the Espheni queen
Thomas "Tom" Mason is a main character in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth season.
Tom is a former Boston University military-history professor, and becomes second-in-command of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment, a group of civilians and fighters fleeing Boston. In his wildest dreams, he would never imagine that his vast knowledge of warfare would be used in an actual war, much less a war against invaders from another planet. He has three sons Hal, Ben, and Matt, and his wife died early in the invasion. Tom befriends Anne Glass, eventually becoming romantically involved with her.
At the end of season one, he boards an alien shuttle with Hal's girlfriend Karen and one of the Eshpeni in the hope of stopping the changes to Ben from his captivity earlier in the season. Tom is eventually freed, and finds his way back home. Between seasons two and three, he is elected president of the New United States. Tom continues to fight with the 2nd Mass, seeing himself as a military leader who belongs on the front line. In season three they have a daughter, Alexis, however due to interference by the invaders while the pregnant Anne was held hostage, Lexi is a hybrid of human-alien DNA.
Season four finds Tom in a concentration camp similar to the ghettos of the World War II era, however escapes to reconnects with the 2nd Mass. He officially marries Anne, Daniel Weaver being the conducting the marriage and in the finale flies to the moon to destroy the Espheni power core along with Lexi, however is lost in space.
Childhood
"There was nothing idyllic about my childhood, except maybe I survived it." —Tom on his childhood. Not much is known about Tom's childhood. His father owned a hardware store and was apparently an angry drunk. It is implied that he was abusive towards Tom.
Boston, MA
He met his future wife Rebecca, sometime before he attended grad school. While he attended grad school, they lived in an apartment in Boston, later joking that the landlord was attracted to Rebecca and was very helpful because of it. Sometime later they got married. He became an American History professor at Boston University. They eventually had three children: Hal, Benjamin, and Matthew. Rebecca Mason did most of the cooking as Tom was a bad cook. He did however like to cook on Saturdays because he liked the smell of bacon and hash browns. Tom once took his family to Six Flags, and was said by Hal to be looking green on one of the rides.
Post-Invasion
During the initial attacks he joined up with the Massachusetts Militia to protect his family. His wife was murdered at the hands of the invading aliens and his son, Ben, was captured by them. Tom took it upon himself to protect the rest of his family. Tom met Dr. Anne Glass after helping her treat a patient and over time the two became close.
In the first three episodes of Season One, he carried an Norinco Type 56, then he carried an AKM for the rest of the Season, then he switched over to an Zavasta M70 for Seasons 2 and 3, he then switched to an customized Norinco Type 84S in Season 4.He also carried a Zavasta M70AB2 in "Molon Lobe" an Beretta 92FS in "Strange Brew" and a Glock 17 i...
•Leadership: Throughout the series, Tom was made second in command of leading the 2nd Mass on missions, tasks, and assignments given on group’s safety during survival against the aliens or enemies. His leadership was so strong that he even became president of the new United States in Charleston as many were encouraged to follow him and his support with starting an alliance with the Volm.
•Excellent Strategist: His wits and experience allows him to come up with strategies and plans very unpredictable to anticipate which successfully leads to victory. As Tom was told that Volm created a cannon to destroy the Espheni towers and kept it a secret from everyone not to be trusted with it due to the risk of compromising until he leads the 2nd Mass to it and manages to get it done.
•Expert Marksmanship: Over the entire course of the show, Mason has became a great marksman in wielding many firearm weaponry such as (Shotgun, Assault Rifle, Pistol, even modified with alien technology).
•Indomitable Will: This is his most greatest trait possessing willpower that has help keep his spirit alive and striving towards every act of agony and chaos through the years of the invasion. As Tom has done many dangerous things through his times of being separated from his loved ones and group and always finds his way back to them as well as surviving even when captured by alien forces (i.e. while being on the Espheni ship, he endures torture from the staff of the overlord, walks through every environment till he reaches Boston, and barely flinch when getting shot accidentally by his son Ben to reunite with the 2nd Mass). His resilience has also pushed his mind to resist against alien technology such as having a parasite that has possessive tendencies was unless on him as Dr. Glass managed to remove out his eye before it could take full hold and was able to realize that Karen had him put in an artificial simulation machine to force him to tell her the plan of where he was planning to attack with the Volm’s cannon which he keeps to himself leaving her astray. He uses this to even teaches his followers to become more powerful warriors to not hold back at savaging against enemies leading them in the final battle in facing the Espheni Queen which he does alone even while enwrapped in web he reaches for the device to throw at her causing her to fade and the entire army. Upon taking his present Wife to the beach to be resurrected, he is encountered by Pope who is dying by his injuries insists on letting Mason end his life there however since the war was over Tom refused as he was finished taking a life which shows that he still retains morals to his own humanity.
•"Retreat. Regroup. Return. Revenge." - Live and Learn
•"And no matter how each of us survive, maybe we owe it to those who didn't, to become the best of mankind." - Prisoner of War
•"All I've got now is hate, I'm not going to waste it." - Shall We Gather at the River
•"One day this war will over. I may not live to see that day but you will." - Tom to Matt in "On Thin Ice"
•"This is our home. And we will fight for it as we see fit." - Brazil
•"Damn right I'm lying to myself. I lie to myself every day, sometimes every hour of every day. And sometimes that's not even enough, because if people think that there's no hope, they damn better believe that I think there is." - A Thing With Feathers
•Along with his son Hal, he is a fan of Led Zeppelin.
A bookish history professor from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tom Mason probably never imagined he would one day be putting his extensive knowledge of military tactics to use in an actual war, much less one being waged against an occupying force from another world. Tom will do everything he can to protect his three sons: Hal, Matt and the recently res...
Tom Mason is an American actor who appeared in Apocalypse Now, Flags of Our Fathers and Runaway Bride. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949 and is married with two children.
- March 1, 1949
Leading the charge is Boston history professor Tom Mason, whose wife was killed in the attack, and one of his three sons is among a group of captive teens. Desperate to rescue his son, Tom...
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Tom Mason is an actor who appeared in Apocalypse Now, Runaway Bride and Flags of Our Fathers, among other films and TV shows. He was also a cinematographer for The Education of Dee Dee Ricks in 2011.
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