Raymond Massey
Born: 1896-08-30 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1983-07-29
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
1974
- Dinah! as Self
1973
- The President's Plane Is Missing as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
- 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
1970
- Night Gallery as Dr. Glendon
1969
- Mackenna's Gold as The Preacher
1967
- Saint Joan as The Inquisitor
1966
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as B. Elzie Bubb
1964
- Choice as Narrator
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- How the West Was Won as Abraham Lincoln
- Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey as Narrator
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
- The Fiercest Heart as Willem Prisloom
- The Queen's Guards
1960
- The Great Impostor as Abbott Donner
- Insight
- Seconds for Survival as Self - Narrator (voice)
1959
- Adventures in Paradise as Captain William Brooks
- Riverboat as Sir Oliver Garnett
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Amos Claypool
- The Naked and the Dead as General Cummings
1957
- Wagon Train as Montezuma IX
- Omar Khayyam as The Shah
- Mayerling as The Prime Minister
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Malachi West
- Armchair Theatre as Sir George Sidney, MP
- The True Story of the Civil War as Narrator
- The Naked Eye as Sprecher
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sam Pine
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as George Apley
- East of Eden as Adam Trask
- Battle Cry as Major General Snipes
- Seven Angry Men as John Brown
- Prince of Players as Junius Brutus Booth
1954
- Climax! as Sir George Sidney
1953
- General Electric Theater as Lord Hook
- The Desert Song as Sheik Yousseff
- The American Road as Narrator
1952
- Carson City as Big Jack Davis
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as The Inquisitor
- David and Bathsheba as Nathan
- Sugarfoot as Jacob Stint
- Come Fill the Cup as John Ives
- The Victor Borge Show as Self
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Abe Lincoln
- Dallas as Will Marlow
- Barricade as Boss Kruger
- Chain Lightning as Leland Willis
- Challenge: Science Against Cancer as Narrated by (voice)
1949
- Lights Out
- The Fountainhead as Gail Wynand
- Roseanna McCoy as Old Randall McCoy
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Ford Theatre
- The Ford Theatre Hour as Clinton Jones
1947
- Possessed as Dean Graham
- 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
- Hotel Berlin as Arnim von Dahnwitz
1944
- Arsenic and Old Lace as Jonathan Brewster
- 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
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- Desperate Journey as Major Otto Baumeister
1941
- 49th Parallel as Andy Brock
- Dangerously They Live as Dr. Ingersoll
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as John Brown
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abe Lincoln
1938
- The Drum as Prince Ghul
- Black Limelight as Peter Charrington
1937
- The Prisoner of Zenda as Black Michael
- Fire Over England as King Philip II of Spain
- The Hurricane as DeLaage
- Under the Red Robe as Cardinal Richelieu
- 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
- 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