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
East of Eden (1955)
as Adam Trask
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Jonathan Brewster
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Abraham Lincoln
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
as Abraham Farlan
Chain Lightning (1950)
as Leland Willis
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
as The Preacher
Dallas (1950)
as Will Marlow
Battle Cry (1955)
as Major General Snipes
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
David and Bathsheba (1951)
as Nathan
Choice (1964)
as Narrator
The Woman in the Window (1944)
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
49th Parallel (1941)
as Andy Brock
Years Ago (1948)
as Clinton Jones
The Old Dark House (1932)
as Philip Waverton
Sugarfoot (1951)
as Jacob Stint
Things to Come (1936)
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as King Cutler
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Gail Wynand
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)
as Matthew Cunningham
Dangerously They Live (1941)
as Dr. Ingersoll
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
as Black Michael
Desperate Journey (1942)
as Major Otto Baumeister
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
as Narrator
The Hurricane (1937)
as DeLaage
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as John Brown
Fire Over England (1937)
as King Philip II of Spain
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962)
as Narrator
Hotel Berlin (1945)
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
Roseanna McCoy (1949)
as Old Randall McCoy
The Desert Song (1953)
as Sheik Yousseff
Seconds for Survival (1960)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Possessed (1947)
as Dean Graham
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
as Chauvelin
Carson City (1952)
as Big Jack Davis
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as General Cummings
The Naked Eye (1956)
as Narrator (voice)
The Great Impostor (1960)
as Abbott Donner
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
as Willem Prisloom
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
as John Ives
Omar Khayyam (1957)
as The Shah
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Abe Lincoln
The Drum (1938)
as Prince Ghul
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
as Ezra Mannon
The Queen's Guards (1961)
Actor
Under the Red Robe (1937)
as Cardinal Richelieu
All My Darling Daughters (1972)
as Matthew Cunningham
Seven Angry Men (1955)
as John Brown
Prince of Players (1955)
as Junius Brutus Booth
Mayerling (1957)
as The Prime Minister
Barricade (1950)
as Boss Kruger
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971)
as Abraham Lincoln
Dreaming Lips (1937)
as Miguel del Vayo
The Speckled Band (1931)
as Sherlock Holmes
The Face at the Window (1932)
as Paul le Gros
Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950)
as Narrated by (voice)
The Crooked Billet (1930)
Actor
High Treason (1929)
as (uncredited)
Saint Joan (1967)
as The Inquisitor
The American Road (1953)
as Narrator
Black Limelight (1938)
as Peter Charrington