Acting

Raymond Massey

Born 1896-08-30 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died 1983-07-29

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).

Credits

Newest first

Dinah!
as Self
1974
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Matthew Cunningham
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1973
All My Darling Daughters
as Matthew Cunningham
1972
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Abraham Lincoln
1971
Night Gallery
as Dr. Glendon
1970
Night Gallery
as Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies")
1970
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher
1969
Saint Joan
as The Inquisitor
1967
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as B. Elzie Bubb
1966
Choice
as Narrator
1964
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
as Narrator
1962
The Queen's Guards
1961
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
1961
The Fiercest Heart
as Willem Prisloom
1961
The Great Impostor
as Abbott Donner
1960
Insight
1960
Seconds for Survival
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1960
Adventures in Paradise
as Captain William Brooks
1959
Riverboat
as Sir Oliver Garnett
1959
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Amos Claypool
1958
The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings
1958
Wagon Train
as Montezuma IX
1957
Omar Khayyam
as The Shah
1957
Mayerling
as The Prime Minister
1957
The True Story of the Civil War
as Narrator
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Malachi West
1956
Armchair Theatre
as Sir George Sidney, MP
1956
Armchair Theatre
Writer
1956
The Naked Eye
as Narrator (voice)
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as George Apley
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sam Pine
1955
East of Eden
as Adam Trask
1955
Seven Angry Men
as John Brown
1955
Battle Cry
as Major General Snipes
1955
Prince of Players
as Junius Brutus Booth
1955
Climax!
as Sir George Sidney
1954
Climax!
as Doc Woodward
1954
The American Road
as Narrator
1953
The Desert Song
as Sheik Yousseff
1953
General Electric Theater
as Lord Hook
1953
General Electric Theater
as Paul von Hindenburg
1953
Carson City
as Big Jack Davis
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The Inquisitor
1951
Come Fill the Cup
as John Ives
1951
David and Bathsheba
as Nathan
1951
Sugarfoot
as Jacob Stint
1951
The Victor Borge Show
as Self
1951
Dallas
as Will Marlow
1950
Lux Video Theatre
as Abe Lincoln
1950
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
as Narrated by (voice)
1950
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
Barricade
as Boss Kruger
1950
Chain Lightning
as Leland Willis
1950
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Dr. Henry Craig
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Dr. Clark Evans
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Judge Benton
1950
Roseanna McCoy
as Old Randall McCoy
1949
Lights Out
1949
The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand
1949
Years Ago
as Clinton Jones
1948
Ford Theatre
1948
The Ford Theatre Hour
as Clinton Jones
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon
1947
Possessed
as Dean Graham
1947
A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan
1946
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
1945
Hotel Berlin
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
1945
The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster
1944
Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
1943
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
1942
Desperate Journey
as Major Otto Baumeister
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler
1942