Raymond Massey
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1896-08-30 – 1983-07-29
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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).
Known for
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944Jonathan Brewster
East of Eden
1955Adam Trask
Santa Fe Trail
1940John Brown
Things to Come
1936John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Possessed
1947Dean Graham
Fire Over England
1937King Philip II of Spain
Action in the North Atlantic
1943Capt. Steve Jarvis
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934Chauvelin
The Old Dark House
1932Philip Waverton
The Fountainhead
1949Gail Wynand
How the West Was Won
1962Abraham Lincoln
A Matter of Life and Death
1946Abraham Farlan
David and Bathsheba
1951Nathan
The Naked and the Dead
1958General Cummings
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940Abe Lincoln
The Drum
1938Prince Ghul
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937Black Michael
Reap the Wild Wind
1942King Cutler
The Great Impostor
1960Abbott Donner