Raymond Massey
Known for: Acting
Born: August 30, 1896
Died: July 29, 1983
Place of birth: 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).
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Filmography
63 movies · 27 TV shows, newest first
7.0
Dinah!
1974
7.5
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
6.3
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
7.5
All My Darling Daughters
1972
NR
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
7.8
Night Gallery
1970
6.6
Mackenna's Gold
1969
10.0
Saint Joan
1967
6.9
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
19661.0
Choice
1964
7.0
How the West Was Won
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
7.0
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
1962
5.2
The Queen's Guards
1961
5.7
Dr. Kildare
19615.7
The Fiercest Heart
1961
6.9
The Great Impostor
1960
6.7
Insight
1960
NR
Seconds for Survival
1960
6.1
Adventures in Paradise
1959
6.5
Riverboat
1959
6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.7
The Naked and the Dead
1958
6.6
Wagon Train
1957
5.8
Omar Khayyam
1957
6.1
Mayerling
1957
7.2
The True Story of the Civil War
1956
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
NR
The Naked Eye
1956
6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
7.5
East of Eden
1955
6.0
Seven Angry Men
1955
5.8
Battle Cry
1955
5.5
Prince of Players
1955
3.8
Climax!
19547.0
The American Road
1953
6.8
The Desert Song
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
6.2
Carson City
1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
7.0
Come Fill the Cup
1951
5.8
David and Bathsheba
1951
5.3
Sugarfoot
1951NR
The Victor Borge Show
1951
6.5
Dallas
19506.7
Lux Video Theatre
195010.0
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
1950
6.4
Barricade
1950
6.4
Chain Lightning
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
6.1
Roseanna McCoy
1949
6.0
Lights Out
1949
6.8
The Fountainhead
19498.0
Ford Theatre
1948
NR
The Ford Theatre Hour
1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
6.1
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
6.9
Possessed
1947
7.8
A Matter of Life and Death
1946
7.1
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
6.2
Hotel Berlin
1945
7.4
The Woman in the Window
1944
7.6
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
7.1
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
6.0
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
6.1
Desperate Journey
1942
6.4
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
6.3
Dangerously They Live
1941
7.0
49th Parallel
1941
5.8
Santa Fe Trail
1940
6.9
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
6.6
Black Limelight
1938
6.1
The Drum
1938
6.7
The Hurricane
1937
7.5
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
6.8
Under the Red Robe
1937
6.2
Fire Over England
1937
7.0
Dreaming Lips
1937
6.5
Things to Come
1936
7.0
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
6.7
The Old Dark House
19329.0
The Face at the Window
1932
5.8
The Speckled Band
1931
8.0
The Crooked Billet
1930
6.1
High Treason
1929