Raymond Massey
Acting
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).
TV Shows(27)
Dinah!
Self
1974
Night Gallery
Dr. Glendon
1970
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
B. Elzie Bubb
1966
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
1961
Insight
1960
Adventures in Paradise
Captain William Brooks
1959
Riverboat
Sir Oliver Garnett
1959
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Amos Claypool
1958
Wagon Train
Montezuma IX
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Malachi West
1956
Armchair Theatre
Sir George Sidney, MP
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sam Pine
1955
Climax!
Sir George Sidney
1954
General Electric Theater
Lord Hook
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Inquisitor
1951
The Victor Borge Show
Self
1951
Lux Video Theatre
Abe Lincoln
1950
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Lights Out
1949
Ford Theatre
1948
The Ford Theatre Hour
Clinton Jones
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Movies(63)
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Matthew Cunningham
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1973
All My Darling Daughters
Matthew Cunningham
1972
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Abraham Lincoln
1971
Mackenna's Gold
The Preacher
1969
Saint Joan
The Inquisitor
1967
Choice
Narrator
1964
How the West Was Won
Abraham Lincoln
1962
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Narrator
1962
The Queen's Guards
1961
The Fiercest Heart
Willem Prisloom
1961
The Great Impostor
Abbott Donner
1960
Seconds for Survival
Self - Narrator (voice)
1960
The Naked and the Dead
General Cummings
1958
Omar Khayyam
The Shah
1957
Mayerling
The Prime Minister
1957
The True Story of the Civil War
Narrator
1956
The Naked Eye
Sprecher
1956
East of Eden
Adam Trask
1955
Seven Angry Men
John Brown
1955
Battle Cry
Major General Snipes
1955
Prince of Players
Junius Brutus Booth
1955
The American Road
Narrator
1953
The Desert Song
Sheik Yousseff
1953
Carson City
Big Jack Davis
1952
Come Fill the Cup
John Ives
1951
David and Bathsheba
Nathan
1951
Sugarfoot
Jacob Stint
1951
Dallas
Will Marlow
1950
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
Narrated by (voice)
1950
Barricade
Boss Kruger
1950
Chain Lightning
Leland Willis
1950
Roseanna McCoy
Old Randall McCoy
1949
The Fountainhead
Gail Wynand
1949
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ezra Mannon
1947
Possessed
Dean Graham
1947
A Matter of Life and Death
Abraham Farlan
1946
God Is My Co-Pilot
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
1945
Hotel Berlin
Arnim von Dahnwitz
1945
The Woman in the Window
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
Jonathan Brewster
1944
Action in the North Atlantic
Capt. Steve Jarvis
1943
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
1942
Desperate Journey
Major Otto Baumeister
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
King Cutler
1942
Dangerously They Live
Dr. Ingersoll
1941
49th Parallel
Andy Brock
1941
Santa Fe Trail
John Brown
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln
1940
Black Limelight
Peter Charrington
1938
The Drum
Prince Ghul
1938
The Hurricane
DeLaage
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
Black Michael
1937
Under the Red Robe
Cardinal Richelieu
1937
Fire Over England
King Philip II of Spain
1937
Dreaming Lips
Miguel del Vayo
1937
Things to Come
John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
1936
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chauvelin
1934
The Old Dark House
Philip Waverton
1932
The Face at the Window
Paul le Gros
1932
The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes
1931
The Crooked Billet
1930
High Treason
Member of Federated States Council
1929