Alexander Morgan Mason (also known as Morgan Mason) (born June 26, 1955) is an American/British politician, film producer and actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and is the son of the late Academy award-nominated British actor James Mason and his wife Pamela Ostrer, actress and commentator. He is the former Acting Chief of Protocol of the United States, and served as Special Assistant to the President to Ronald Reagan. He was, and is to this day, the youngest Special Assistant to the President in the history of the United States. His grandfather, the financier and film producer Isidore Ostrer, was head of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. As a child, Mason appeared in the films The Sandpiper, and Hero's Island. He married pop singer Belinda Carlisle in 1986. They have a son, James Duke Mason, born April 27, 1992. The Mason family currently resides in Europe.
After having served as executive director of Illingworth Morris, the world's largest woollen textile company up to that time, Mason began working in 1979 for the Ronald Reagan for President Campaign. At first he was Assistant Finance Director, then he went on to serve as Major Events Director, and he was also a member of the campaign's Executive Advisor Committee. He was a Delegate-At-Large from California to the Republican National Convention in 1980, and after the election, in which Reagan was victorious, Mason was made Special Assistant to the Co-Chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee. When Reagan became President, Mason was appointed Deputy Chief of Protocol at the U.S. State Department, serving as Acting Chief of Protocol at the same time for several months. He then went to work at the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Political Affairs, and during that time was selected to be a part of the Official United States Delegation to attend the funeral services of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, with former U.S. President's Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.
On November 5, 1983, Mason resigned from his White House position and became the Vice President of Rogers and Cowan Public Relations. In 1984 he became a board member of Musifilm Ltd., a partnership with MCA/Universal. Mason later went on to become an Executive Producer of the film Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989), which went on to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. During the 1980s, Mason was made a presidential appointee to The Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and a special Advisor to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. In 1990, he became Vice President and head of the Independent Film Division of the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills, and 7 years later became CEO of London Films. In 1999, Mason founded his own television channel, Innergy, with UPC, and worked at the channel until 2001.
