Raymond Massey

Known for ActingBorn 1896-08-30Died 1983-07-29Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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).Read more

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Saint Joan

Challenge: Science Against Cancer

The Face at the Window

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Night Gallery

Ford Theatre

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Crooked Billet

A Matter of Life and Death

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

All My Darling Daughters

The True Story of the Civil War

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Arsenic and Old Lace

East of Eden

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Woman in the Window

Dinah!

God Is My Co-Pilot

Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey

How the West Was Won

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

What's My Line?

The American Road

Come Fill the Cup

The Bob Hope Show

The Great Impostor

Action in the North Atlantic

49th Parallel

Possessed

Dreaming Lips

General Electric Theater

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Desert Song

The Ed Sullivan Show

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

The Fountainhead

Mackenna's Gold

Insight

The Merv Griffin Show

Lux Video Theatre

The Hurricane

Wagon Train

Under the Red Robe

Riverboat

The Old Dark House

The President's Plane Is Missing

Black Limelight