Raymond Massey

Known for

Acting

Born

August 30, 1896

Birthplace

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died

July 29, 1983 (aged 86)

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).

Best known work

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

East of Eden

1955

How the West Was Won

1962

A Matter of Life and Death

1946

The Woman in the Window

1944

The Old Dark House

1932

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

Things to Come

1936

Mackenna's Gold

1969

The Fountainhead

1949

Filmography

1974
Dinah!TV
as Self (1 episode)
1973
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Matthew Cunningham
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1972
All My Darling Daughters
as Matthew Cunningham
1971
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Abraham Lincoln
1970
Night GalleryTV
as Dr. Glendon (1 episode), as Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies") (1 episode)
1969
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher
1967
Saint Joan
as The Inquisitor
1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.TV
as B. Elzie Bubb (1 episode)
1964
Choice
as Narrator
1962
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonTV
as Self (2 episodes)
1962
The Merv Griffin ShowTV
as Self (1 episode)
1962
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
as Narrator
1961
The Queen's Guards
1961
Dr. KildareTV
as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie (191 episodes)
1961
The Fiercest Heart
as Willem Prisloom
1960
The Great Impostor
as Abbott Donner
1960
InsightTV
1960
Seconds for Survival
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1959
Adventures in ParadiseTV
as Captain William Brooks (1 episode)
1959
RiverboatTV
as Sir Oliver Garnett (1 episode)
1958
Westinghouse Desilu PlayhouseTV
as Amos Claypool (1 episode)
1958
The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings
1957
Wagon TrainTV
as Montezuma IX (1 episode)