Raymond Massey
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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
Credits
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Abraham Lincoln
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
as Abraham Farlan
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Jonathan Brewster
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
as The Preacher
East of Eden (1955)
as Adam Trask
The Woman in the Window (1944)
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
49th Parallel (1941)
as Andy Brock
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Gail Wynand
David and Bathsheba (1951)
as Nathan
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as King Cutler
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
as Black Michael
Battle Cry (1955)
as Major General Snipes
Dallas (1950)
as Will Marlow
Chain Lightning (1950)
as Leland Willis
The Old Dark House (1932)
as Philip Waverton
Things to Come (1936)
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as John Brown
Carson City (1952)
as Big Jack Davis
The Great Impostor (1960)
as Abbott Donner
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as General Cummings
Possessed (1947)
as Dean Graham
Fire Over England (1937)
as King Philip II of Spain
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
Desperate Journey (1942)
as Major Otto Baumeister
The Hurricane (1937)
as DeLaage
The Drum (1938)
as Prince Ghul
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
as John Ives
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
as Chauvelin
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
Sugarfoot (1951)
as Jacob Stint
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Ezra Mannon
Dangerously They Live (1941)
as Dr. Ingersoll
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
Omar Khayyam (1957)
as The Shah
Hotel Berlin (1945)
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
Choice (1964)
as Narrator
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)
as Matthew Cunningham
The Desert Song (1953)
as Sheik Yousseff
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Abe Lincoln
Seven Angry Men (1955)
as John Brown
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
as Willem Prisloom
Mayerling (1957)
as The Prime Minister
Roseanna McCoy (1949)
as Old Randall McCoy
The Naked Eye (1956)
as Narrator (voice)
Barricade (1950)
as Boss Kruger
All My Darling Daughters (1972)
as Matthew Cunningham
Prince of Players (1955)
as Junius Brutus Booth
Under the Red Robe (1937)
as Cardinal Richelieu
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971)
as Abraham Lincoln
Dreaming Lips (1937)
as Miguel del Vayo
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962)
as Narrator
The Speckled Band (1931)
as Sherlock Holmes
Seconds for Survival (1960)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
as Narrator
Saint Joan (1967)
as The Inquisitor
The Queen's Guards (1961)
Actor
High Treason (1929)
as Member of Federated States Council
Black Limelight (1938)
as Peter Charrington
The Crooked Billet (1930)
Actor
The Face at the Window (1932)
as Paul le Gros
Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950)
as Narrated by (voice)
The American Road (1953)
as Narrator