Raymond Massey
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1896-08-30
Day of Death
1983-07-29 (86 years old)
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).
Known For
Acting
(1973)
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
(1973)
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Matthew Cunningham
(1972)
All My Darling Daughters
as Matthew Cunningham
(1971)
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Abraham Lincoln
(1969)
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher
(1967)
Saint Joan
as The Inquisitor
(1964)
Choice
as Narrator
(1962)
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln
(1961)
The Fiercest Heart
as Willem Prisloom
(1961)
(1960)
The Great Impostor
as Abbott Donner
(1960)
Seconds for Survival
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1958)
The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings
(1957)
Mayerling
as The Prime Minister
(1957)
Omar Khayyam
as The Shah
(1956)
The Naked Eye
as Sprecher
(1956)
The True Story of the Civil War
as Narrator
(1955)
East of Eden
as Adam Trask
(1955)
Battle Cry
as Major General Snipes
(1955)
Prince of Players
as Junius Brutus Booth
(1955)
Seven Angry Men
as John Brown
(1953)
The Desert Song
as Sheik Yousseff
(1953)
The American Road
as Narrator
(1952)
Carson City
as Big Jack Davis
(1951)
David and Bathsheba
as Nathan
(1951)
Come Fill the Cup
as John Ives
(1951)
Sugarfoot
as Jacob Stint
(1950)
Dallas
as Will Marlow
(1950)
Chain Lightning
as Leland Willis
(1950)
Barricade
as Boss Kruger
(1950)
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
as Narrated by (voice)
(1949)
The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand
(1949)
Roseanna McCoy
as Old Randall McCoy
(1947)
Possessed
as Dean Graham
(1947)
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon
(1946)
A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan
(1945)
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
(1945)
Hotel Berlin
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
(1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster
(1944)
The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
(1943)
Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler
(1942)
Desperate Journey
as Major Otto Baumeister
(1942)
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
(1941)
49th Parallel
as Andy Brock
(1941)
Dangerously They Live
as Dr. Ingersoll
(1940)
Santa Fe Trail
as John Brown
(1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abe Lincoln
(1938)
The Drum
as Prince Ghul
(1938)
Black Limelight
as Peter Charrington
(1937)
Fire Over England
as King Philip II of Spain
(1937)
The Hurricane
as DeLaage
(1937)
Under the Red Robe
as Cardinal Richelieu
(1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Black Michael
(1937)
Dreaming Lips
as Miguel del Vayo
(1936)
Things to Come
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
(1934)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Chauvelin
(1932)
The Old Dark House
as Philip Waverton
(1932)
The Face at the Window
as Paul le Gros
(1931)
The Speckled Band
as Sherlock Holmes
(1930)
(1929)
High Treason
as Member of Federated States Council