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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 30, 1896
Place of Birth:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Raymond Massey
Biography
Raymond Hart Massey 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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | My Darling Daughters' Anniversary | Matthew Cunningham |
| 1973 | The President's Plane Is Missing | Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey |
| 1972 | All My Darling Daughters | Matthew Cunningham |
| 1971 | Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1969 | Mackenna's Gold | The Preacher |
| 1967 | Saint Joan | The Inquisitor |
| 1964 | Choice | Narrator |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1961 | The Queen's Guards | |
| 1961 | The Fiercest Heart | Willem Prisloom |
| 1960 | The Great Impostor | Abbott Donner |
| 1960 | Seconds for Survival | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1958 | The Naked and the Dead | General Cummings |
| 1957 | Mayerling | The Prime Minister |
| 1957 | Omar Khayyam | The Shah |
| 1956 | The Naked Eye | Sprecher |
| 1956 | The True Story of the Civil War | Narrator |
| 1955 | East of Eden | Adam Trask |
| 1955 | Battle Cry | Major General Snipes |
| 1955 | Seven Angry Men | John Brown |
| 1955 | Prince of Players | Junius Brutus Booth |
| 1953 | The Desert Song | Sheik Yousseff |
| 1953 | The American Road | Narrator |
| 1952 | Carson City | Big Jack Davis |
| 1951 | David and Bathsheba | Nathan |
| 1951 | Come Fill the Cup | John Ives |
| 1951 | Sugarfoot | Jacob Stint |
| 1950 | Chain Lightning | Leland Willis |
| 1950 | Dallas | Will Marlow |
| 1950 | Barricade | Boss Kruger |
| 1950 | Challenge: Science Against Cancer | Narrated by (voice) |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Gail Wynand |
| 1949 | Roseanna McCoy | Old Randall McCoy |
| 1947 | Possessed | Dean Graham |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Ezra Mannon |
| 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | Abraham Farlan |
| 1945 | God Is My Co-Pilot | Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault |
| 1945 | Hotel Berlin | Arnim von Dahnwitz |
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Jonathan Brewster |
| 1944 | The Woman in the Window | Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor |
| 1943 | Action in the North Atlantic | Capt. Steve Jarvis |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | King Cutler |
| 1942 | Desperate Journey | Major Otto Baumeister |
| 1942 | Breakdowns of 1942 | Self |
| 1941 | Dangerously They Live | Dr. Ingersoll |
| 1941 | 49th Parallel | Andy Brock |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | John Brown |
| 1940 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abe Lincoln |
| 1938 | The Drum | Prince Ghul |
| 1938 | Black Limelight | Peter Charrington |
| 1937 | Fire Over England | King Philip II of Spain |
| 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Black Michael |
| 1937 | The Hurricane | DeLaage |
| 1937 | Under the Red Robe | Cardinal Richelieu |
| 1937 | Dreaming Lips | Miguel del Vayo |
| 1936 | Things to Come | John Cabal / Oswald Cabal |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin |
| 1932 | The Old Dark House | Philip Waverton |
| 1932 | The Face at the Window | Paul le Gros |
| 1931 | The Speckled Band | Sherlock Holmes |
| 1930 | The Crooked Billet | |
| 1929 | High Treason | Member of Federated States Council |