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Raymond Massey
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Biography
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).
BODY OF WORK
Raymond Massey's Filmography
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My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Matthew Cunningham
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
All My Darling Daughters
as Matthew Cunningham
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Abraham Lincoln
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher
Saint Joan
as The Inquisitor
No Poster
Choice
as Narrator
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
as Narrator
The Queen's Guards
No Poster
The Fiercest Heart
as Willem Prisloom
The Great Impostor
as Abbott Donner
Seconds for Survival
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings
Omar Khayyam
as The Shah
Mayerling
as The Prime Minister
The True Story of the Civil War
as Narrator
The Naked Eye
as Narrator (voice)
East of Eden
as Adam Trask
Seven Angry Men
as John Brown
Battle Cry
as Major General Snipes
Prince of Players
as Junius Brutus Booth
No Poster
The American Road
as Narrator
The Desert Song
as Sheik Yousseff
Carson City
as Big Jack Davis
Come Fill the Cup
as John Ives
David and Bathsheba
as Nathan
Sugarfoot
as Jacob Stint
Dallas
as Will Marlow
No Poster
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
as Narrated by (voice)
Barricade
as Boss Kruger
Chain Lightning
as Leland Willis
Roseanna McCoy
as Old Randall McCoy
The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand
Years Ago
as Clinton Jones
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon
Possessed
as Dean Graham
A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
Hotel Berlin
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster
Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
Desperate Journey
as Major Otto Baumeister
Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler
Dangerously They Live
as Dr. Ingersoll
49th Parallel
as Andy Brock
Santa Fe Trail
as John Brown
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abe Lincoln
Black Limelight
as Peter Charrington
The Drum
as Prince Ghul
The Hurricane
as DeLaage
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Black Michael
Under the Red Robe
as Cardinal Richelieu
Fire Over England
as King Philip II of Spain
Dreaming Lips
as Miguel del Vayo
Things to Come
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Chauvelin
The Old Dark House
as Philip Waverton
No Poster
The Face at the Window
as Paul le Gros
The Speckled Band
as Sherlock Holmes
The Crooked Billet
High Treason
as (uncredited)