Name
Raymond Massey
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1896-08-30
Deathday
1983-07-29 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor known for his commanding stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on TV and in How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr Gillespie in the NBC TV series Dr Kildare (1961–1966), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940), Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Known For
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In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against o...
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The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War...
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Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribe...
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A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial cour...
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In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an...
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A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder....
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A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but oth...
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The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a ...
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The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II....
- 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace as Jonathan Brewster
- 1955 East of Eden as Adam Trask
- 1940 Santa Fe Trail as John Brown
- 1936 Things to Come as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
- 1947 Possessed as Dean Graham
- 1937 Fire Over England as King Philip II of Spain
- 1943 Action in the North Atlantic as Capt. Steve Jarvis
- 1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel as Chauvelin
- 1932 The Old Dark House as Philip Waverton
- 1949 The Fountainhead as Gail Wynand
- 1962 How the West Was Won as Abraham Lincoln
- 1946 A Matter of Life and Death as Abraham Farlan
- 1951 David and Bathsheba as Nathan
- 1958 The Naked and the Dead as General Cummings
- 1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abe Lincoln
- 1938 The Drum as Prince Ghul
- 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda as Black Michael
- 1942 Reap the Wild Wind as King Cutler
- 1960 The Great Impostor as Abbott Donner
- 1944 The Woman in the Window as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
- 1931 The Speckled Band as Sherlock Holmes
- 1969 Mackenna's Gold as The Preacher
- 1941 Dangerously They Live as Dr. Ingersoll
- 1947 Mourning Becomes Electra as Ezra Mannon
- 1955 Battle Cry as Major General Snipes
- 1952 Carson City as Big Jack Davis
- 1942 Desperate Journey as Major Otto Baumeister
- 1950 Chain Lightning as Leland Willis
- 1945 God Is My Co-Pilot as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
- 1951 Come Fill the Cup as John Ives
- 1950 Dallas as Will Marlow
- 1951 Sugarfoot as Jacob Stint
- 1955 Seven Angry Men as John Brown
- 1955 Prince of Players as Junius Brutus Booth
- 1945 Hotel Berlin as Arnim von Dahnwitz
- 1957 Mayerling as The Prime Minister
- 1949 Roseanna McCoy as Old Randall McCoy
- 1961 The Queen's Guards
- 1957 Omar Khayyam as The Shah
- 1953 The Desert Song as Sheik Yousseff
- 1973 My Darling Daughters' Anniversary as Matthew Cunningham
- 1964 Choice as Narrator
- 1950 Barricade as Boss Kruger
- 1938 Black Limelight as Peter Charrington
- 1950 Challenge: Science Against Cancer as Narrated by (voice)
- 1937 The Hurricane as DeLaage
- 1967 Saint Joan as The Inquisitor
- 1941 49th Parallel as Andy Brock
- 1932 The Face at the Window as Paul le Gros
- 1929 High Treason as (uncredited)
- 1930 The Crooked Billet
- 1961 The Fiercest Heart as Willem Prisloom
- 1960 Seconds for Survival as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1956 The Naked Eye as Narrator (voice)
- 1937 Under the Red Robe as Cardinal Richelieu
- 1973 The President's Plane Is Missing as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
- 1937 Dreaming Lips as Miguel del Vayo
- 1972 All My Darling Daughters as Matthew Cunningham
- 1956 The True Story of the Civil War as Narrator
- 1942 Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- 1953 The American Road as Narrator
- 1971 Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age as Abraham Lincoln
- 1962 Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey as Narrator
- 1948 Years Ago as Clinton Jones
- 1966 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. ( 1 episode ) as B. Elzie Bubb
- 1951 The Victor Borge Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1970 Night Gallery ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Glendon
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Lord Hook
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as The Inquisitor
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Sam Pine
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Abe Lincoln
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Sir George Sidney
- 1959 Adventures in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as Captain William Brooks
- 1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Amos Claypool
- 1959 Riverboat ( 1 episode ) as Sir Oliver Garnett
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Malachi West
- 1949 Lights Out ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Dr. Kildare ( 191 episodes ) as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
- 1948 Ford Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Paul von Hindenburg
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Henry Craig
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Clark Evans
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode ) as Judge Benton
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Doc Woodward
- 1948 The Ford Theatre Hour ( 1 episode ) as Clinton Jones
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1960 Insight ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Wagon Train ( 1 episode ) as Montezuma IX
- 1974 Dinah! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1950 The Bob Hope Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Sir George Sidney, MP
- 1970 Night Gallery ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies")
- 1955 The 20th Century Fox Hour ( 1 episode ) as George Apley
