Raymond Massey

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-08-30 (87 years old)

Deathday

1983-07-29

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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).

Acting

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

1932

The Old Dark House

as Philip Waverton

1949

The Fountainhead

as Gail Wynand

1962

How the West Was Won

as Abraham Lincoln

1946

1951

1958

The Naked and the Dead

as General Cummings

1940

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

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

1957

Omar Khayyam

as The Shah

1953

The Desert Song

as Sheik Yousseff

1973

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 Member of Federated States Council

1961

The Fiercest Heart

as Willem Prisloom

1960

Seconds for Survival

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1956

The Naked Eye

as Sprecher

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

1953

1971

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