Raymond Massey
Actor
- Born
- August 30, 1896 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- July 29, 1983 (age 86)
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
September 1, 1944
East of Eden
April 10, 1955
How the West Was Won
November 2, 1962
A Matter of Life and Death
December 15, 1946
The Woman in the Window
October 25, 1944
The Old Dark House
October 20, 1932
Things to Come
March 31, 1936
Mackenna's Gold
March 18, 1969
The Fountainhead
June 25, 1949
49th Parallel
November 24, 1941
Possessed
May 29, 1947
David and Bathsheba
August 10, 1951
Acting64
- 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
- 1961