Raymond Massey
Acting
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).
Filmography 90
Movies (63)
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary1973Matthew Cunningham
The President's Plane Is Missing1973Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
All My Darling Daughters1972Matthew Cunningham
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age1971Abraham Lincoln
Mackenna's Gold1969The Preacher
Saint Joan1967The Inquisitor- Choice1964Narrator
How the West Was Won1962Abraham Lincoln
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey1962Narrator
The Queen's Guards1961- The Fiercest Heart1961Willem Prisloom
The Great Impostor1960Abbott Donner
Seconds for Survival1960Self - Narrator (voice)
The Naked and the Dead1958General Cummings
Omar Khayyam1957The Shah
Mayerling1957The Prime Minister
The True Story of the Civil War1956Narrator
The Naked Eye1956Sprecher
East of Eden1955Adam Trask
Seven Angry Men1955John Brown
Battle Cry1955Major General Snipes
Prince of Players1955Junius Brutus Booth- The American Road1953Narrator
The Desert Song1953Sheik Yousseff
Carson City1952Big Jack Davis
Come Fill the Cup1951John Ives
David and Bathsheba1951Nathan
Sugarfoot1951Jacob Stint
Dallas1950Will Marlow- Challenge: Science Against Cancer1950Narrated by (voice)
Shows (27)
Dinah!1974Self
Night Gallery1970Dr. Glendon
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.1966B. Elzie Bubb
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962Self
The Merv Griffin Show1962Self
Dr. Kildare1961Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
Insight1960
Adventures in Paradise1959Captain William Brooks
Riverboat1959Sir Oliver Garnett
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse1958Amos Claypool
Wagon Train1957Montezuma IX
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956Malachi West
Armchair Theatre1956Sir George Sidney, MP
The 20th Century Fox Hour1955George Apley
Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955Sam Pine
Climax!1954Sir George Sidney
General Electric Theater1953Lord Hook
Hallmark Hall of Fame1951The Inquisitor- The Victor Borge Show1951Self
- Lux Video Theatre1950Abe Lincoln
The Bob Hope Show1950Self
What's My Line?1950Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Montgomery Presents1950
Lights Out1949- Ford Theatre1948
The Ford Theatre Hour1948Clinton Jones
The Ed Sullivan Show1948Self