Raymond Massey

Raymond Massey (86)

1896-08-30 - 1983-07-29 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Raymond Hart Massey 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).

On Movies

  • My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
  • The President's Plane Is Missing
  • All My Darling Daughters
  • Mackenna's Gold
  • How the West Was Won
  • The Queen's Guards
  • The Fiercest Heart
  • The Great Impostor
  • The Naked and the Dead
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Mayerling
  • East of Eden
  • Seven Angry Men
  • Battle Cry
  • Prince of Players
  • The Desert Song
  • Carson City
  • Come Fill the Cup
  • David and Bathsheba
  • Sugarfoot
  • Dallas
  • Barricade
  • Chain Lightning
  • Roseanna McCoy
  • The Fountainhead
  • Mourning Becomes Electra
  • Possessed
  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • God Is My Co-Pilot
  • Hotel Berlin
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Action in the North Atlantic
  • Desperate Journey
  • Reap the Wild Wind
  • Dangerously They Live
  • 49th Parallel
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  • The Drum
  • Black Limelight
  • The Hurricane
  • The Prisoner of Zenda
  • Under the Red Robe
  • Fire Over England
  • Dreaming Lips
  • Things to Come
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The Old Dark House
  • The Face at the Window
  • The Speckled Band
  • The Crooked Billet
  • High Treason

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