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
East of Eden (1955)
as Adam Trask
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Abraham Lincoln
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
as The Preacher
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Jonathan Brewster
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
as Abraham Farlan
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Gail Wynand
The Woman in the Window (1944)
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as King Cutler
The Old Dark House (1932)
as Philip Waverton
49th Parallel (1941)
as Andy Brock
Chain Lightning (1950)
as Leland Willis
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as General Cummings
Things to Come (1936)
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as John Brown
Battle Cry (1955)
as Major General Snipes
Dallas (1950)
as Will Marlow
David and Bathsheba (1951)
as Nathan
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
as Black Michael
The Great Impostor (1960)
as Abbott Donner
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
All My Darling Daughters (1972)
as Matthew Cunningham
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Abe Lincoln
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
as John Ives
The Hurricane (1937)
as DeLaage
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
as Chauvelin
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
as Willem Prisloom
Carson City (1952)
as Big Jack Davis
Sugarfoot (1951)
as Jacob Stint
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)
as Matthew Cunningham
Fire Over England (1937)
as King Philip II of Spain
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Ezra Mannon
The Queen's Guards (1961)
Actor
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971)
as Abraham Lincoln
Under the Red Robe (1937)
as Cardinal Richelieu
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
Omar Khayyam (1957)
as The Shah
Possessed (1947)
as Dean Graham
Desperate Journey (1942)
as Major Otto Baumeister
Dangerously They Live (1941)
as Dr. Ingersoll
Mayerling (1957)
as The Prime Minister
The Drum (1938)
as Prince Ghul
Hotel Berlin (1945)
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
The Desert Song (1953)
as Sheik Yousseff
Choice (1964)
as Narrator
Roseanna McCoy (1949)
as Old Randall McCoy
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
as Narrator
Seven Angry Men (1955)
as John Brown
The Speckled Band (1931)
as Sherlock Holmes
Prince of Players (1955)
as Junius Brutus Booth
The Face at the Window (1932)
as Paul le Gros
Barricade (1950)
as Boss Kruger
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962)
as Narrator
Saint Joan (1967)
as The Inquisitor
High Treason (1929)
as Member of Federated States Council
Dreaming Lips (1937)
as Miguel del Vayo
Black Limelight (1938)
as Peter Charrington
Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950)
as Narrated by (voice)
The Naked Eye (1956)
as Narrator (voice)
The American Road (1953)
as Narrator
Seconds for Survival (1960)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Crooked Billet (1930)
Actor
Years Ago (1948)
as Clinton Jones