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