Raymond Massey
Acting • Born 1896-08-30 – Died 1983-07-29
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
94 credits
Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie • 1944
Jonathan Brewster
East of Eden
Movie • 1955
Adam Trask
Santa Fe Trail
Movie • 1940
John Brown
Things to Come
Movie • 1936
John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Possessed
Movie • 1947
Dean Graham
Fire Over England
Movie • 1937
King Philip II of Spain
Action in the North Atlantic
Movie • 1943
Capt. Steve Jarvis
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie • 1934
Chauvelin
The Old Dark House
Movie • 1932
Philip Waverton
The Fountainhead
Movie • 1949
Gail Wynand
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Abraham Lincoln
A Matter of Life and Death
Movie • 1946
Abraham Farlan
David and Bathsheba
Movie • 1951
Nathan
The Naked and the Dead
Movie • 1958
General Cummings
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Movie • 1940
Abe Lincoln
The Drum
Movie • 1938
Prince Ghul
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie • 1937
Black Michael
Reap the Wild Wind
Movie • 1942
King Cutler
The Great Impostor
Movie • 1960
Abbott Donner
The Woman in the Window
Movie • 1944
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
The Speckled Band
Movie • 1931
Sherlock Holmes
Mackenna's Gold
Movie • 1969
The Preacher
Dangerously They Live
Movie • 1941
Dr. Ingersoll
Mourning Becomes Electra
Movie • 1947
Ezra Mannon
Battle Cry
Movie • 1955
Major General Snipes
Carson City
Movie • 1952
Big Jack Davis
Desperate Journey
Movie • 1942
Major Otto Baumeister
Chain Lightning
Movie • 1950
Leland Willis
God Is My Co-Pilot
Movie • 1945
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
Come Fill the Cup
Movie • 1951
John Ives
Dallas
Movie • 1950
Will Marlow
Sugarfoot
Movie • 1951
Jacob Stint
Seven Angry Men
Movie • 1955
John Brown
Prince of Players
Movie • 1955
Junius Brutus Booth
Hotel Berlin
Movie • 1945
Arnim von Dahnwitz
Mayerling
Movie • 1957
The Prime Minister
Roseanna McCoy
Movie • 1949
Old Randall McCoy
The Queen's Guards
Movie • 1961
Omar Khayyam
Movie • 1957
The Shah
The Desert Song
Movie • 1953
Sheik Yousseff
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Movie • 1973
Matthew Cunningham
Choice
Movie • 1964
Narrator
Barricade
Movie • 1950
Boss Kruger
Black Limelight
Movie • 1938
Peter Charrington
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
Movie • 1950
Narrated by (voice)
The Hurricane
Movie • 1937
DeLaage
Saint Joan
Movie • 1967
The Inquisitor
49th Parallel
Movie • 1941
Andy Brock
The Face at the Window
Movie • 1932
Paul le Gros
High Treason
Movie • 1929
Member of Federated States Council
The Crooked Billet
Movie • 1930
The Fiercest Heart
Movie • 1961
Willem Prisloom
Seconds for Survival
Movie • 1960
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Naked Eye
Movie • 1956
Sprecher
Under the Red Robe
Movie • 1937
Cardinal Richelieu
The President's Plane Is Missing
Movie • 1973
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
Dreaming Lips
Movie • 1937
Miguel del Vayo
All My Darling Daughters
Movie • 1972
Matthew Cunningham
The True Story of the Civil War
Movie • 1956
Narrator
Breakdowns of 1942
Movie • 1942
Self
The American Road
Movie • 1953
Narrator
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Movie • 1971
Abraham Lincoln
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Movie • 1962
Narrator
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1966
B. Elzie Bubb
The Victor Borge Show
TV • 1951
Self
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Dr. Glendon
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Lord Hook
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Inquisitor
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Sam Pine
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Abe Lincoln
Climax!
TV • 1954
Sir George Sidney
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Captain William Brooks
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Amos Claypool
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Sir Oliver Garnett
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Malachi West
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
Ford Theatre
TV • 1948
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Paul von Hindenburg
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dr. Henry Craig
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dr. Clark Evans
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Judge Benton
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Climax!
TV • 1954
Doc Woodward
The Ford Theatre Hour
TV • 1948
Clinton Jones
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Insight
TV • 1960
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Montezuma IX
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self