Raymond Massey
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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
Credits
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Abraham Lincoln
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
as Abraham Farlan
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Jonathan Brewster
East of Eden (1955)
as Adam Trask
Chain Lightning (1950)
as Leland Willis
Dallas (1950)
as Will Marlow
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
as The Preacher
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as King Cutler
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
Battle Cry (1955)
as Major General Snipes
The Old Dark House (1932)
as Philip Waverton
The Woman in the Window (1944)
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
David and Bathsheba (1951)
as Nathan
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Gail Wynand
The Great Impostor (1960)
as Abbott Donner
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as General Cummings
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as John Brown
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
Things to Come (1936)
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
The Hurricane (1937)
as DeLaage
Carson City (1952)
as Big Jack Davis
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)
as Matthew Cunningham
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
as Chauvelin
Desperate Journey (1942)
as Major Otto Baumeister
Dangerously They Live (1941)
as Dr. Ingersoll
Possessed (1947)
as Dean Graham
Sugarfoot (1951)
as Jacob Stint
49th Parallel (1941)
as Andy Brock
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Ezra Mannon
Fire Over England (1937)
as King Philip II of Spain
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Abe Lincoln
Choice (1964)
as Narrator
The Drum (1938)
as Prince Ghul
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
as Black Michael
Seven Angry Men (1955)
as John Brown
The Desert Song (1953)
as Sheik Yousseff
Prince of Players (1955)
as Junius Brutus Booth
Roseanna McCoy (1949)
as Old Randall McCoy
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
as John Ives
Omar Khayyam (1957)
as The Shah
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
as Narrator
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
as Willem Prisloom
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
The Naked Eye (1956)
as Sprecher
Under the Red Robe (1937)
as Cardinal Richelieu
High Treason (1929)
as Member of Federated States Council
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962)
as Narrator
The Speckled Band (1931)
as Sherlock Holmes
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971)
as Abraham Lincoln
The Queen's Guards (1961)
Actor
Mayerling (1957)
as The Prime Minister
Hotel Berlin (1945)
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
All My Darling Daughters (1972)
as Matthew Cunningham
Dreaming Lips (1937)
as Miguel del Vayo
Barricade (1950)
as Boss Kruger
Saint Joan (1967)
as The Inquisitor
Seconds for Survival (1960)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950)
as Narrated by (voice)
The American Road (1953)
as Narrator
The Face at the Window (1932)
as Paul le Gros
The Crooked Billet (1930)
Actor
Black Limelight (1938)
as Peter Charrington