Raymond Massey
Acting
- Born:
- 1896-08-30
- Died:
- 1983-07-29
- Place of birth:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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).
Known For
Filmography
Dinah!
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
The President's Plane Is Missing
All My Darling Daughters
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Night Gallery
Mackenna's Gold
Saint Joan
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Choice
How the West Was Won
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Merv Griffin Show
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
The Queen's Guards
Dr. Kildare
The Fiercest Heart
The Great Impostor
Insight
Seconds for Survival
Adventures in Paradise
Riverboat
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Naked and the Dead
Wagon Train
Omar Khayyam
Mayerling
The True Story of the Civil War
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Armchair Theatre
The Naked Eye
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
East of Eden
Seven Angry Men
Battle Cry
Prince of Players
Climax!
The American Road
The Desert Song
General Electric Theater
Carson City
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Come Fill the Cup
David and Bathsheba
Sugarfoot
The Victor Borge Show
Dallas
Lux Video Theatre
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
The Bob Hope Show
Barricade
Chain Lightning
What's My Line?
Robert Montgomery Presents
Roseanna McCoy
Lights Out
The Fountainhead
Years Ago
Ford Theatre
The Ford Theatre Hour
The Ed Sullivan Show
Mourning Becomes Electra
Possessed
A Matter of Life and Death
God Is My Co-Pilot
Hotel Berlin
The Woman in the Window
Arsenic and Old Lace
Action in the North Atlantic
Breakdowns of 1942
Desperate Journey
Reap the Wild Wind
Dangerously They Live
49th Parallel
Santa Fe Trail
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Black Limelight
The Drum
The Hurricane
The Prisoner of Zenda
Under the Red Robe
Fire Over England
Dreaming Lips
Things to Come
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Old Dark House
The Face at the Window
The Speckled Band
The Crooked Billet
High Treason