Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 30, 1896
Died
Jul 29, 1983
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Credits
90 titles
Raymond Massey
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!
Self
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Matthew Cunningham
The President's Plane Is Missing
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
All My Darling Daughters
Matthew Cunningham
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Abraham Lincoln
Night Gallery
Dr. Glendon
Mackenna's Gold
The Preacher
Saint Joan
The Inquisitor
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
B. Elzie Bubb
Choice
Narrator
How the West Was Won
Abraham Lincoln
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Narrator
The Queen's Guards
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
The Fiercest Heart
Willem Prisloom
The Great Impostor
Abbott Donner
Insight
Seconds for Survival
Self - Narrator (voice)
Adventures in Paradise
Captain William Brooks
Riverboat
Sir Oliver Garnett
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Amos Claypool
The Naked and the Dead
General Cummings
Wagon Train
Montezuma IX
Omar Khayyam
The Shah
Mayerling
The Prime Minister
The True Story of the Civil War
Narrator
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Malachi West
Armchair Theatre
Sir George Sidney, MP
The Naked Eye
Sprecher
The 20th Century Fox Hour
George Apley
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sam Pine
East of Eden
Adam Trask
Seven Angry Men
John Brown
Battle Cry
Major General Snipes
Prince of Players
Junius Brutus Booth
Climax!
Sir George Sidney
The American Road
Narrator
The Desert Song
Sheik Yousseff
General Electric Theater
Lord Hook
Carson City
Big Jack Davis
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Inquisitor
Come Fill the Cup
John Ives
David and Bathsheba
Nathan
Sugarfoot
Jacob Stint
The Victor Borge Show
Self
Dallas
Will Marlow
Lux Video Theatre
Abe Lincoln
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
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