Actor
· Acting
Raymond Massey
Born 1896-08-30
Died 1983-07-29
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 88
Dinah!
as Self
1974
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Matthew Cunningham
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1973
All My Darling Daughters
as Matthew Cunningham
1972
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Abraham Lincoln
1971
Night Gallery
as Dr. Glendon
1970
Night Gallery
as Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies")
1970
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher
1969
Saint Joan
as The Inquisitor
1967
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as B. Elzie Bubb
1966
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
as Narrator
1962
The Queen's Guards
1961
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
1961
The Great Impostor
as Abbott Donner
1960
Insight
1960
Seconds for Survival
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1960
Adventures in Paradise
as Captain William Brooks
1959
Riverboat
as Sir Oliver Garnett
1959
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Amos Claypool
1958
The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings
1958
Wagon Train
as Montezuma IX
1957
Omar Khayyam
as The Shah
1957
Mayerling
as The Prime Minister
1957
The True Story of the Civil War
as Narrator
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Malachi West
1956
Armchair Theatre
as Sir George Sidney, MP
1956
The Naked Eye
as Sprecher
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as George Apley
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sam Pine
1955
East of Eden
as Adam Trask
1955
Seven Angry Men
as John Brown
1955
Battle Cry
as Major General Snipes
1955
Prince of Players
as Junius Brutus Booth
1955
Climax!
as Sir George Sidney
1954
Climax!
as Doc Woodward
1954
The Desert Song
as Sheik Yousseff
1953
General Electric Theater
as Lord Hook
1953
General Electric Theater
as Paul von Hindenburg
1953
Carson City
as Big Jack Davis
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The Inquisitor
1951
Come Fill the Cup
as John Ives
1951
David and Bathsheba
as Nathan
1951
Sugarfoot
as Jacob Stint
1951
Dallas
as Will Marlow
1950
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
Barricade
as Boss Kruger
1950
Chain Lightning
as Leland Willis
1950
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Dr. Henry Craig
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Dr. Clark Evans
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Judge Benton
1950
Roseanna McCoy
as Old Randall McCoy
1949
Lights Out
1949
The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand
1949
The Ford Theatre Hour
as Clinton Jones
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon
1947
Possessed
as Dean Graham
1947
A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan
1946
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
1945
Hotel Berlin
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
1945
The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster
1944
Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
1943
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
1942
Desperate Journey
as Major Otto Baumeister
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler
1942
Dangerously They Live
as Dr. Ingersoll
1941
49th Parallel
as Andy Brock
1941
Santa Fe Trail
as John Brown
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abe Lincoln
1940
Black Limelight
as Peter Charrington
1938
The Drum
as Prince Ghul
1938
The Hurricane
as DeLaage
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Black Michael
1937
Under the Red Robe
as Cardinal Richelieu
1937
Fire Over England
as King Philip II of Spain
1937
Dreaming Lips
as Miguel del Vayo
1937
Things to Come
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
1936
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Chauvelin
1934
The Old Dark House
as Philip Waverton
1932
The Speckled Band
as Sherlock Holmes
1931
The Crooked Billet
1930
High Treason
as Member of Federated States Council
1929