Raymond Massey
Acting

Raymond Massey

Born 30 August 1896 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Died 29 July 1983

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

Arsenic and Old Lace
East of Eden
How the West Was Won
A Matter of Life and Death
The Woman in the Window
The Old Dark House
Things to Come
Mackenna's Gold
The Fountainhead
49th Parallel
Possessed
David and Bathsheba
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
The President's Plane Is Missing
All My Darling Daughters
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Mackenna's Gold
Saint Joan
How the West Was Won
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
The Queen's Guards
The Great Impostor
The Naked and the Dead
Mayerling
Omar Khayyam
The Naked Eye
The True Story of the Civil War
East of Eden
Battle Cry
Seven Angry Men
Prince of Players
The Desert Song
Carson City
David and Bathsheba
Come Fill the Cup
Sugarfoot
Chain Lightning
Dallas
Barricade
The Fountainhead
Roseanna McCoy
Years Ago
Possessed
Mourning Becomes Electra
A Matter of Life and Death
God Is My Co-Pilot
Hotel Berlin
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Woman in the Window
Action in the North Atlantic
Reap the Wild Wind
Desperate Journey
Dangerously They Live
49th Parallel
Santa Fe Trail
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
The Drum
Black Limelight
Fire Over England
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Hurricane
Under the Red Robe
Dreaming Lips
Things to Come
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Old Dark House
The Speckled Band
The Crooked Billet
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