Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1896-08-30
- Day of Death1983-07-29 (86 years)
- Place of BirthToronto, Ontario, Canada
- Also Known AsRaymond Hart Massey
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...Read More
Acting Career
- 1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
As: Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
- 1972
All My Darling Daughters
As: Matthew Cunningham
- 1971
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
As: Abraham Lincoln
- 1970
Night Gallery
As: Dr. Glendon
- 1969
Mackenna's Gold
As: The Preacher
- 1967
Saint Joan
As: The Inquisitor
- 1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
As: B. Elzie Bubb
- 1962
How the West Was Won
As: Abraham Lincoln
1962Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
As: Narrator
1961Dr. Kildare
As: Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
1960The Great Impostor
As: Abbott Donner
1959Adventures in Paradise
As: Captain William Brooks
1959Riverboat
As: Sir Oliver Garnett
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
As: Amos Claypool
1958The Naked and the Dead
As: General Cummings
1957Wagon Train
As: Montezuma IX
1957Omar Khayyam
As: The Shah
1957Mayerling
As: The Prime Minister
1956The True Story of the Civil War
As: Narrator
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
As: Malachi West
1956The Naked Eye
As: Sprecher
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As: Sam Pine
- 1955
East of Eden
As: Adam Trask
1955Seven Angry Men
As: John Brown
1955Battle Cry
As: Major General Snipes
1955Prince of Players
As: Junius Brutus Booth
1954Climax!
As: Sir George Sidney
- 1954
Climax!
As: Doc Woodward
1953The Desert Song
As: Sheik Yousseff
1953General Electric Theater
As: Lord Hook
- 1953
General Electric Theater
As: Paul von Hindenburg
1952Carson City
As: Big Jack Davis
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
As: The Inquisitor
1951Come Fill the Cup
As: John Ives
1951David and Bathsheba
As: Nathan
1951Sugarfoot
As: Jacob Stint
1950Dallas
As: Will Marlow
1950Barricade
As: Boss Kruger
1950Chain Lightning
As: Leland Willis
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
As: Dr. Henry Craig
- 1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
As: Dr. Clark Evans
- 1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
As: Judge Benton
1949Roseanna McCoy
As: Old Randall McCoy
1949The Fountainhead
As: Gail Wynand
1948The Ford Theatre Hour
As: Clinton Jones
1947Mourning Becomes Electra
As: Ezra Mannon
1947Possessed
As: Dean Graham
- 1946
A Matter of Life and Death
As: Abraham Farlan
1945God Is My Co-Pilot
As: Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
1945Hotel Berlin
As: Arnim von Dahnwitz
- 1944
The Woman in the Window
As: Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
- 1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
As: Jonathan Brewster
1943Action in the North Atlantic
As: Capt. Steve Jarvis
1942Desperate Journey
As: Major Otto Baumeister
1942Reap the Wild Wind
As: King Cutler
1941Dangerously They Live
As: Dr. Ingersoll
194149th Parallel
As: Andy Brock
1940Santa Fe Trail
As: John Brown
1940Abe Lincoln in Illinois
As: Abe Lincoln
1938Black Limelight
As: Peter Charrington
1938The Drum
As: Prince Ghul
1937The Hurricane
As: DeLaage
1937The Prisoner of Zenda
As: Black Michael
1937Under the Red Robe
As: Cardinal Richelieu
1937Fire Over England
As: King Philip II of Spain
1937Dreaming Lips
As: Miguel del Vayo
1936Things to Come
As: John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
1934The Scarlet Pimpernel
As: Chauvelin
1932The Old Dark House
As: Philip Waverton
1931The Speckled Band
As: Sherlock Holmes
1929High Treason
As: Member of Federated States Council