Raymond Massey
Actor
Born August 30, 1896 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
Dinah!
Self
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Matthew Cunningham
The President's Plane Is Missing
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
All My Darling Daughters
Matthew Cunningham
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Abraham Lincoln
Night Gallery
Dr. Glendon
Mackenna's Gold
The Preacher
Saint Joan
The Inquisitor
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
B. Elzie Bubb
How the West Was Won
Abraham Lincoln
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Narrator
The Queen's Guards
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
The Great Impostor
Abbott Donner
Insight
Seconds for Survival
Self - Narrator (voice)
Adventures in Paradise
Captain William Brooks
Riverboat
Sir Oliver Garnett
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Amos Claypool
The Naked and the Dead
General Cummings
Wagon Train
Montezuma IX
Omar Khayyam
The Shah
Mayerling
The Prime Minister
The True Story of the Civil War
Narrator
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Malachi West
Armchair Theatre
Sir George Sidney, MP
The Naked Eye
Sprecher
The 20th Century Fox Hour
George Apley
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sam Pine
East of Eden
Adam Trask
Seven Angry Men
John Brown
Battle Cry
Major General Snipes
Prince of Players
Junius Brutus Booth
Climax!
Sir George Sidney
The Desert Song
Sheik Yousseff
General Electric Theater
Lord Hook
Carson City
Big Jack Davis
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Inquisitor
Come Fill the Cup
John Ives
David and Bathsheba
Nathan
Sugarfoot
Jacob Stint
Dallas
Will Marlow
The Bob Hope Show
Self
Barricade
Boss Kruger
Chain Lightning
Leland Willis
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Montgomery Presents
Roseanna McCoy
Old Randall McCoy
Lights Out
The Fountainhead
Gail Wynand
The Ford Theatre Hour
Clinton Jones
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ezra Mannon
Possessed
Dean Graham
A Matter of Life and Death
Abraham Farlan
God Is My Co-Pilot
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
Hotel Berlin
Arnim von Dahnwitz
The Woman in the Window
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
Arsenic and Old Lace
Jonathan Brewster
Action in the North Atlantic
Capt. Steve Jarvis
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
Desperate Journey
Major Otto Baumeister
Reap the Wild Wind
King Cutler
Dangerously They Live
Dr. Ingersoll
49th Parallel
Andy Brock
Santa Fe Trail
John Brown
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln
Black Limelight
Peter Charrington
The Drum
Prince Ghul
The Hurricane
DeLaage
The Prisoner of Zenda
Black Michael
Under the Red Robe
Cardinal Richelieu
Fire Over England
King Philip II of Spain
Dreaming Lips
Miguel del Vayo
Things to Come
John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chauvelin
The Old Dark House
Philip Waverton
The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes
The Crooked Billet
High Treason
Member of Federated States Council