
Cast
Raymond Massey
Acting
Cast
Raymond Massey
Known for
Acting
Born
1896-08-30
From
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died
1983-07-29
Also known as Raymond Hart Massey
Biography
Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 β 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 (1961β1966), 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).

How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln

A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan

Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher

East of Eden
as Adam Trask

Battle Cry
as Major General Snipes

Arsenic and Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster

The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand

The Desert Song
as Sheik Yousseff

David and Bathsheba
as Nathan

The Hurricane
as DeLaage

Dallas
as Will Marlow

Dreaming Lips
as Miguel del Vayo

The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor

Possessed
as Dean Graham

Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler

Santa Fe Trail
as John Brown

49th Parallel
as Andy Brock

The Prisoner of Zenda
as Black Michael

Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis

God Is My Co-Pilot
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault

Carson City
as Big Jack Davis

The Great Impostor
as Abbott Donner

The Old Dark House
as Philip Waverton

Breakdowns of 1942
as Self

Black Limelight
as Peter Charrington

Desperate Journey
as Major Otto Baumeister

Things to Come
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal

Mayerling
as The Prime Minister

The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Chauvelin

Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon

Hotel Berlin
as Arnim von Dahnwitz

Dangerously They Live
as Dr. Ingersoll

The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings

Omar Khayyam
as The Shah

The President's Plane Is Missing
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey

Barricade
as Boss Kruger

Under the Red Robe
as Cardinal Richelieu

Sugarfoot
as Jacob Stint

Chain Lightning
as Leland Willis

Prince of Players
as Junius Brutus Booth

The Drum
as Prince Ghul

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abe Lincoln

Fire Over England
as King Philip II of Spain

The Queen's Guards

The Speckled Band
as Sherlock Holmes

Saint Joan
as The Inquisitor

Seven Angry Men
as John Brown

Come Fill the Cup
as John Ives

All My Darling Daughters
as Matthew Cunningham

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Abraham Lincoln

Roseanna McCoy
as Old Randall McCoy

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Matthew Cunningham

The True Story of the Civil War
as Narrator

The Crooked Billet

High Treason
as Member of Federated States Council

Choice
as Narrator

The Naked Eye
as Sprecher

The Fiercest Heart
as Willem Prisloom

The Face at the Window
as Paul le Gros

Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
as Narrator

Seconds for Survival
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Challenge: Science Against Cancer
as Narrated by (voice)

The American Road
as Narrator