Gene Raymond
Actor
Born August 13, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA
Gene Raymond, born Raymond Guion, was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot. His screen debut was in Personal Maid (1931). Another early appearance was in the multi-director If I Had a Million with W. C. Fields and Charles Laughton. With his blond good looks, classic profile, and youthful exuberance — plus a name change to the more pronounceable "Gene Raymond" — he scored in films like the classic Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, and a series of light RKO musicals, mostly with Ann Sothern. He wrote a number of songs, including the popular "Will You?" which he sang to Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town. His wife, Jeanette MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled "Let Me Always Sing".
Filmography
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
Self
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
Self
The Invisible Man
Sen. Albert Hanover
Emergency!
J.P. Dumont
Five Bloody Graves
The Voice of Death
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Walter Markle
The Name of the Game
Senator Reeland
Mannix
Richmond Greene
Judd, for the Defense
Hondo
Ironside
Marcus Weathers
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Charles Vechten
The F.B.I.
Harlan Franciscus
Laredo
The Hanged Man
Whitey Devlin
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Col. Allan Morgan
I'd Rather Be Rich
Martin Wood
The Best Man
Don Cantwell
Burke's Law
Arthur Wade
Channing
Matt Bellamy
The Outer Limits
Sawyer
Sam Benedict
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Phil
Johnny Ringo
Silky Carter
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
John Niles
Plunder Road
Eddie Harris
Where's Charley?
Col. Sir Francis Chesney
Prima Donna
Matinee Theater
Screen Director's Playhouse
Hit the Deck
Wendell Craig
TV Reader's Digest
Climax!
Grady Lederer
Letter to Loretta
Mark Colby
Medallion Theatre
The Ford Television Theatre
Stanley
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
US Army Major
The Red Skelton Show
General
Tales of Tomorrow
Robert Montgomery Presents
Studio One
Charles Sterling
Million Dollar Weekend
Nicholas Lawrence
Sofia
Steve Roark
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Assigned to Danger
Dan Sullivan
Kraft Television Theatre
Andy Clements
The Locket
John Willis
Smilin' Through
Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Jeff
Cross-Country Romance
Lawrence Smith
Stolen Heaven
Carl
She's Got Everything
Fuller Partridge
The Life of the Party
Barry Saunders
There Goes My Girl
Jerry Martin
That Girl from Paris
Windy McLean
Smartest Girl in Town
Richard Stuyvesant Smith
Walking on Air
Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
The Bride Walks Out
Michael Martin
Love on a Bet
Michael MacCreigh
Seven Keys to Baldpate
William Magee
Hooray for Love
Douglas Tyler
Transient Lady
Carey Marshall
The Woman in Red
John 'Johnny' Wyatt
Behold My Wife!
Michael Carter
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Jimmy Brett
Sadie McKee
Tommy
Coming Out Party
Chris Hansen
I Am Suzanne!
Tony Malatini
The House on 56th Street
Monte Van Tyle
Flying Down to Rio
Roger Bond
Brief Moment
Rodney Deane
Ann Carver's Profession
Bill
Ex-Lady
Don Peterson
Zoo in Budapest
Zani
If I Had a Million
John Wallace (uncredited)
Red Dust
Gary Willis
The Night of June 13
Herbert Morrow
Forgotten Commandments
Paul Ossipoff
Ladies of the Big House
Standish McNeil
Personal Maid
Dick Gary