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Raymond Massey

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1896-08-30

Day of Death

1983-07-29

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Raymond Massey

Biography

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).

Filmography (63)

⭐ 7.5 Role: Matthew Cunningham

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

1973
⭐ 6.3 Role: Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey

The President's Plane Is Missing

1973
⭐ 7.5 Role: Matthew Cunningham

All My Darling Daughters

1972
⭐ 0 Role: Abraham Lincoln

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

1971
⭐ 6.6 Role: The Preacher

Mackenna's Gold

1969
⭐ 10.0 Role: The Inquisitor

Saint Joan

1967
No Image
⭐ 1.0 Role: Narrator

Choice

1964
⭐ 7.0 Role: Abraham Lincoln

How the West Was Won

1962
⭐ 7.0 Role: Narrator

Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey

1962
⭐ 5.2 Role: Unknown

The Queen's Guards

1961
No Image
⭐ 5.7 Role: Willem Prisloom

The Fiercest Heart

1961
⭐ 6.9 Role: Abbott Donner

The Great Impostor

1960
⭐ 0 Role: Self - Narrator (voice)

Seconds for Survival

1960
⭐ 5.8 Role: General Cummings

The Naked and the Dead

1958
⭐ 5.8 Role: The Shah

Omar Khayyam

1957