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
• How the West Was Won as Abraham Lincoln
• A Matter of Life and Death as Abraham Farlan
• The Woman in the Window as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
• 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

TV

• Night Gallery as Dr. Glendon
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sam Pine
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as B. Elzie Bubb
• General Electric Theater as Lord Hook
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as The Inquisitor
• Lux Video Theatre as Abe Lincoln
• Climax! as Sir George Sidney
• Adventures in Paradise as Captain William Brooks
• The 20th Century Fox Hour
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Amos Claypool