Raymond Massey

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

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).

Filmography

• Arsenic and Old Lace as Jonathan Brewster
• East of Eden as Adam Trask
• Santa Fe Trail as John Brown
• Things to Come as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
• Possessed as Dean Graham
• Fire Over England as King Philip II of Spain
• Action in the North Atlantic as Capt. Steve Jarvis
• The Scarlet Pimpernel as Chauvelin
• The Old Dark House as Philip Waverton
• The Fountainhead as Gail Wynand