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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 13, 1908
Died
May 2, 1998
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Джин Рэймонд
- Raymond Guion
Gene Raymond
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Gene Raymond, born Raymond Guion, was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot. His screen debut was in Personal Maid (1931). Another early appearance was in the multi-director If I Had a Million with W. C. Fields and Charles Laughton. With his blond good looks, classic profile, and youthful exuberance — plus a name change to the more pronounceable "Gene Raymond" — he scored in films like the classic Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, and a series of light RKO musicals, mostly with Ann Sothern. He wrote a number of songs, including the popular "Will You?" which he sang to Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town. His wife, Jeanette MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled "Let Me Always Sing". His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. MacDonald and Raymond made one film together, Smilin' Through, which came out as the U.S. was on the verge of entering World War II. After service in the United States Army Air Forces Raymond returned to Hollywood. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1949 film Million Dollar Weekend. In later years he appeared in only a few films. His last major film was The Best Man in 1964 with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. In the 1950s he mostly worked in television, appearing in Playhouse of Stars, Fireside Theatre, Hollywood Summer Theater and TV Reader's Digest. In the 1970s he appeared on ABC Television Network's Paris 7000 and had guest roles in The Outer Limits, Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Defenders, Mannix, The Name of the Game, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre and U.S. Steel Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Raymond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
0.0
Self
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
1992
8.0
Self
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
1987
3.3
Emory Latimer Johns
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
6.1
Sen. Albert Hanover
The Invisible Man
1975
7.8
J.P. Dumont
Emergency!
1972
4.0
The Voice of Death
Five Bloody Graves
1969
4.0
Walter Markle
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
6.8
Senator Reeland
The Name of the Game
1968
6.7
Richmond Greene
Mannix
1967
Credits
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
as Self
1992
0.0
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
as Self
1987
8.0
McNaughton's Daughter
as Emory Latimer Johns
1976
3.3
The Invisible Man
as Sen. Albert Hanover
1975
6.1
Emergency!
as J.P. Dumont
1972
7.8
Five Bloody Graves
as The Voice of Death
1969
4.0
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Walter Markle
1969
4.0
The Name of the Game
as Senator Reeland
1968
6.8
Mannix
as Richmond Greene
1967
6.7
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Hondo
1967
6.5
Ironside
as Marcus Weathers
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Charles Huff
1967
6.8
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as Charles Vechten
1966
6.6
The F.B.I.
as Harlan Franciscus
1965
5.4
Laredo
1965
6.3
The Hanged Man
as Whitey Devlin
1964
4.6
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Col. Allan Morgan
1964
7.1
I'd Rather Be Rich
as Martin Wood
1964
5.8
The Best Man
as Don Cantwell
1964
7.2
Burke's Law
as Arthur Wade
1963
6.0
Channing
as Matt Bellamy
1963
7.0
The Outer Limits
as Sawyer
1963
7.8
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Phil
1960
6.2
Johnny Ringo
as Silky Carter
1959
5.7
🎬
Woman on the Run
1959
4.0
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
as John Niles
1958
0.0
Plunder Road
as Eddie Harris
1957
6.9
Where's Charley?
as Col. Sir Francis Chesney
1957
0.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Hit the Deck
as Wendell Craig
1955
4.6
🎬
TV Reader's Digest
1955
0.0
Climax!
as Grady Lederer
1954
3.3
🎬
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
0.0
Letter to Loretta
as Mark Colby
1953
6.5
Medallion Theatre
1953
0.0
The Ford Television Theatre
as Stanley
1952
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as US Army Major
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mark Alexander
1951
7.2
The Red Skelton Show
as General
1951
7.4
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as John Aldrid
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Luke Drake
1950
6.3
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
🎬
Fireside Theater
as Host
1949
7.2
Studio One
as Charles Sterling
1948
5.0
Million Dollar Weekend
as Nicholas Lawrence
1948
4.6
Sofia
as Steve Roark
1948
5.7
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Assigned to Danger
as Dan Sullivan
1948
5.0
Kraft Television Theatre
as Andy Clements
1947
7.5
The Locket
as John Willis
1946
6.3
Smilin' Through
as Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
1941
6.0
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Jeff
1941
6.0
Cross-Country Romance
as Lawrence Smith
1940
6.4
Stolen Heaven
as Carl
1938
0.0
She's Got Everything
as Fuller Partridge
1937
5.3
The Life of the Party
as Barry Saunders
1937
5.2
There Goes My Girl
as Jerry Martin
1937
5.0
That Girl from Paris
as Windy McLean
1936
6.6
Smartest Girl in Town
as Richard Stuyvesant Smith
1936
5.5
Walking on Air
as Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
1936
5.8
The Bride Walks Out
as Michael Martin
1936
5.1
Love on a Bet
as Michael MacCreigh
1936
7.0
Seven Keys to Baldpate
as William Magee
1935
6.6
Hooray for Love
as Douglas Tyler
1935
4.7
Transient Lady
as Carey Marshall
1935
5.5
The Woman in Red
as John 'Johnny' Wyatt
1935
6.0
Behold My Wife!
as Michael Carter
1934
7.0
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Jimmy Brett
1934
4.1
Sadie McKee
as Tommy
1934
6.9
Coming Out Party
as Chris Hansen
1934
5.0
I Am Suzanne!
as Tony Malatini
1933
6.2
The House on 56th Street
as Monte Van Tyle
1933
4.6
Flying Down to Rio
as Roger Bond
1933
6.2
Brief Moment
as Rodney Deane
1933
2.2
Ann Carver's Profession
as Bill
1933
6.3
Ex-Lady
as Don Peterson
1933
6.1
Zoo in Budapest
as Zani
1933
4.5
If I Had a Million
as John Wallace (uncredited)
1932
6.6
Red Dust
as Gary Willis
1932
6.9
The Night of June 13
as Herbert Morrow
1932
7.0
Forgotten Commandments
as Paul Ossipoff
1932
6.0
Ladies of the Big House
as Standish McNeil
1931
6.0
Personal Maid
as Dick Gary
1931
3.0