Raymond Massey
- Known for
- Acting
- 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
Acting 63
- 1973My Darling Daughters' Anniversary as Matthew Cunningham
- 1973The President's Plane Is Missing as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
- 1972All My Darling Daughters as Matthew Cunningham
- 1971Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age as Abraham Lincoln
- 1969Mackenna's Gold as The Preacher
- 1967Saint Joan as The Inquisitor
- 1964Choice as Narrator
- 1962How the West Was Won as Abraham Lincoln
- 1962Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey as Narrator
- 1961The Queen's Guards
- 1961The Fiercest Heart as Willem Prisloom
- 1960The Great Impostor as Abbott Donner
- 1960Seconds for Survival as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1958The Naked and the Dead as General Cummings
- 1957Omar Khayyam as The Shah
- 1957Mayerling as The Prime Minister
- 1956The True Story of the Civil War as Narrator
- 1956The Naked Eye as Narrator (voice)
- 1955East of Eden as Adam Trask
- 1955Seven Angry Men as John Brown
- 1955Battle Cry as Major General Snipes
- 1955Prince of Players as Junius Brutus Booth
- 1953The American Road as Narrator
- 1953The Desert Song as Sheik Yousseff
- 1952Carson City as Big Jack Davis
- 1951Come Fill the Cup as John Ives
- 1951David and Bathsheba as Nathan
- 1951Sugarfoot as Jacob Stint
- 1950Dallas as Will Marlow
- 1950Challenge: Science Against Cancer as Narrated by (voice)
- 1950Barricade as Boss Kruger
- 1950Chain Lightning as Leland Willis
- 1949Roseanna McCoy as Old Randall McCoy
- 1949The Fountainhead as Gail Wynand
- 1947Mourning Becomes Electra as Ezra Mannon
- 1947Possessed as Dean Graham
- 1946A 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
- 1944The Woman in the Window as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
- 1944Arsenic and Old Lace as Jonathan Brewster
- 1943Action in the North Atlantic as Capt. Steve Jarvis
- 1942Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- 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
- 1932The Face at the Window as Paul le Gros
- 1931The Speckled Band as Sherlock Holmes
- 1930The Crooked Billet
- 1929High Treason as Member of Federated States Council