Gene Raymond
Acting • Born 1908-08-13 – Died 1998-05-02
Biography
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". His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. MacDonald and Raymond made one film together, Smilin' Through, which came out as the U.S. was on the verge of entering World War II. After service in the United States Army Air Forces Raymond returned to Hollywood. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1949 film Million Dollar Weekend. In later years he appeared in only a few films. His last major film was The Best Man in 1964 with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. In the 1950s he mostly worked in television, appearing in Playhouse of Stars, Fireside Theatre, Hollywood Summer Theater and TV Reader's Digest. In the 1970s he appeared on ABC Television Network's Paris 7000 and had guest roles in The Outer Limits, Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Defenders, Mannix, The Name of the Game, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre and U.S. Steel Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Raymond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
87 credits
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Movie • 1941
Jeff
Flying Down to Rio
Movie • 1933
Roger Bond
Plunder Road
Movie • 1957
Eddie Harris
The Best Man
Movie • 1964
Don Cantwell
Assigned to Danger
Movie • 1948
Dan Sullivan
The Locket
Movie • 1946
John Willis
Sadie McKee
Movie • 1934
Tommy
Red Dust
Movie • 1932
Gary Willis
Million Dollar Weekend
Movie • 1948
Nicholas Lawrence
The House on 56th Street
Movie • 1933
Monte Van Tyle
Ex-Lady
Movie • 1933
Don Peterson
The Hanged Man
Movie • 1964
Whitey Devlin
The Woman in Red
Movie • 1935
John 'Johnny' Wyatt
If I Had a Million
Movie • 1932
John Wallace (uncredited)
Zoo in Budapest
Movie • 1933
Zani
The Bride Walks Out
Movie • 1936
Michael Martin
Hit the Deck
Movie • 1955
Wendell Craig
Smilin' Through
Movie • 1941
Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
Ladies of the Big House
Movie • 1931
Standish McNeil
I Am Suzanne!
Movie • 1933
Tony Malatini
Behold My Wife!
Movie • 1934
Michael Carter
I'd Rather Be Rich
Movie • 1964
Martin Wood
Stolen Heaven
Movie • 1938
Carl
Love on a Bet
Movie • 1936
Michael MacCreigh
Brief Moment
Movie • 1933
Rodney Deane
She's Got Everything
Movie • 1937
Fuller Partridge
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Movie • 1935
William Magee
The Life of the Party
Movie • 1937
Barry Saunders
That Girl from Paris
Movie • 1936
Windy McLean
Smartest Girl in Town
Movie • 1936
Richard Stuyvesant Smith
Ann Carver's Profession
Movie • 1933
Bill
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Movie • 1934
Jimmy Brett
Cross-Country Romance
Movie • 1940
Lawrence Smith
There Goes My Girl
Movie • 1937
Jerry Martin
Walking on Air
Movie • 1936
Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
The Night of June 13
Movie • 1932
Herbert Morrow
Hooray for Love
Movie • 1935
Douglas Tyler
Five Bloody Graves
Movie • 1969
The Voice of Death
Forgotten Commandments
Movie • 1932
Paul Ossipoff
Transient Lady
Movie • 1935
Carey Marshall
Personal Maid
Movie • 1931
Dick Gary
Sofia
Movie • 1948
Steve Roark
Woman on the Run
Movie • 1959
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Coming Out Party
Movie • 1934
Chris Hansen
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
Movie • 1992
Self
Where's Charley?
Movie • 1957
Col. Sir Francis Chesney
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Arthur Wade
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Harlan Franciscus
Mannix
TV • 1967
Richmond Greene
Studio One
TV • 1948
Charles Sterling
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Ironside
TV • 1967
Marcus Weathers
Laredo
TV • 1965
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Fireside Theater
TV • 1949
Host
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
John Aldrid
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
US Army Major
Climax!
TV • 1954
Grady Lederer
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Hondo
TV • 1967
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Silky Carter
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Sawyer
TV Reader's Digest
TV • 1955
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mark Colby
Channing
TV • 1963
Matt Bellamy
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Phil
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Luke Drake
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Mark Alexander
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Senator Reeland
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
TV • 1958
John Niles
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
TV • 1987
Self
McNaughton's Daughter
TV • 1976
Emory Latimer Johns
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1953
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Andy Clements
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Col. Allan Morgan
Emergency!
TV • 1972
J.P. Dumont
Ironside
TV • 1967
Charles Huff
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
General
The Invisible Man
TV • 1975
Sen. Albert Hanover
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
Walter Markle
Medallion Theatre
TV • 1953
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Stanley
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1966
Charles Vechten
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950