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