Raymond Massey
Acting
Born August 30, 1896 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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).
Films (63)
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
All My Darling Daughters
1972
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
Mackenna's Gold
1969
Saint Joan
1967
Choice
1964
How the West Was Won
1962
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
1962
The Queen's Guards
1961
The Fiercest Heart
1961
The Great Impostor
1960
Seconds for Survival
1960
The Naked and the Dead
1958
Omar Khayyam
1957
Mayerling
1957
The True Story of the Civil War
1956
The Naked Eye
1956
East of Eden
1955
Seven Angry Men
1955
Battle Cry
1955
Prince of Players
1955
The American Road
1953
The Desert Song
1953
Carson City
1952
Come Fill the Cup
1951
David and Bathsheba
1951
Sugarfoot
1951
Dallas
1950
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
1950
Barricade
1950
Chain Lightning
1950
Roseanna McCoy
1949
The Fountainhead
1949
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Possessed
1947
A Matter of Life and Death
1946
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
Hotel Berlin
1945
The Woman in the Window
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
Desperate Journey
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Dangerously They Live
1941
49th Parallel
1941
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
Black Limelight
1938
The Drum
1938
The Hurricane
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
Under the Red Robe
1937
Fire Over England
1937
Dreaming Lips
1937
Things to Come
1936
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
The Old Dark House
1932
The Face at the Window
1932
The Speckled Band
1931
The Crooked Billet
1930
High Treason
1929