Raymond Massey
Acting
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).
Born: August 30, 1896 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Filmography (60)
Dinah!
1974
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
Night Gallery
1970
Mackenna's Gold
1969
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
How the West Was Won
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Great Impostor
1960
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Riverboat
1959
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Naked and the Dead
1958
Wagon Train
1957
Omar Khayyam
1957
Mayerling
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
East of Eden
1955
Battle Cry
1955
Climax!
1954
Carson City
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
David and Bathsheba
1951
Dallas
1950
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Barricade
1950
Chain Lightning
1950
What's My Line?
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Roseanna McCoy
1949
Lights Out
1949
The Fountainhead
1949
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Possessed
1947
A Matter of Life and Death
1946
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
Hotel Berlin
1945
The Woman in the Window
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Desperate Journey
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Dangerously They Live
1941
49th Parallel
1941
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
The Drum
1938
The Hurricane
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
Under the Red Robe
1937
Fire Over England
1937
Things to Come
1936
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
The Old Dark House
1932
The Speckled Band
1931
High Treason
1929