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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 30, 1896
Died
July 29, 1983
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As
- Raymond Hart Massey
Raymond Massey
1.1 Popularity
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).
Known For
6.7
Self
Dinah!
1974
🎬
6.0
Matthew Cunningham
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
6.2
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
6.0
Matthew Cunningham
All My Darling Daughters
1972
0.0
Abraham Lincoln
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
7.8
Dr. Glendon
Night Gallery
1970
6.6
The Preacher
Mackenna's Gold
1969
0.0
The Inquisitor
Saint Joan
1967
6.6
B. Elzie Bubb
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
🎬
1.0
Narrator
Choice
1964
Credits
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
🎬
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Matthew Cunningham
1973
6.0
The President's Plane Is Missing
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1973
6.2
All My Darling Daughters
as Matthew Cunningham
1972
6.0
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
as Abraham Lincoln
1971
0.0
Night Gallery
as Dr. Glendon
1970
7.8
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher
1969
6.6
Saint Joan
as The Inquisitor
1967
0.0
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as B. Elzie Bubb
1966
6.6
🎬
Choice
as Narrator
1964
1.0
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln
1962
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
as Narrator
1962
0.0
The Queen's Guards
1961
4.8
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
1961
5.5
🎬
The Fiercest Heart
as Willem Prisloom
1961
5.0
The Great Impostor
as Abbott Donner
1960
6.9
Insight
1960
6.0
Seconds for Survival
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1960
0.0
Adventures in Paradise
as Captain William Brooks
1959
5.7
Riverboat
as Sir Oliver Garnett
1959
6.2
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Amos Claypool
1958
5.8
The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings
1958
5.8
Wagon Train
as Montezuma IX
1957
6.6
Omar Khayyam
as The Shah
1957
5.0
Mayerling
as The Prime Minister
1957
5.5
The True Story of the Civil War
as Narrator
1956
7.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Malachi West
1956
6.0
The Naked Eye
as Sprecher
1956
0.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Sam Pine
1955
7.8
East of Eden
as Adam Trask
1955
7.5
Seven Angry Men
as John Brown
1955
5.2
Battle Cry
as Major General Snipes
1955
5.6
Prince of Players
as Junius Brutus Booth
1955
4.7
Climax!
as Sir George Sidney
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Doc Woodward
1954
3.3
🎬
The American Road
as Narrator
1953
0.0
The Desert Song
as Sheik Yousseff
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Lord Hook
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Paul von Hindenburg
1953
6.4
Carson City
as Big Jack Davis
1952
6.1
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The Inquisitor
1951
8.6
Come Fill the Cup
as John Ives
1951
7.0
David and Bathsheba
as Nathan
1951
5.7
Sugarfoot
as Jacob Stint
1951
5.0
🎬
The Victor Borge Show
as Self
1951
0.0
Dallas
as Will Marlow
1950
6.5
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Abe Lincoln
1950
6.3
🎬
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
as Narrated by (voice)
1950
0.0
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
Barricade
as Boss Kruger
1950
6.3
Chain Lightning
as Leland Willis
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Dr. Henry Craig
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Dr. Clark Evans
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Judge Benton
1950
5.6
Roseanna McCoy
as Old Randall McCoy
1949
5.6
Lights Out
1949
5.8
The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand
1949
6.8
The Ford Theatre Hour
as Clinton Jones
1948
0.0
🎬
Ford Theatre
1948
0.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Ezra Mannon
1947
6.0
Possessed
as Dean Graham
1947
6.9
A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan
1946
7.8
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
1945
6.9
Hotel Berlin
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
1945
5.8
The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
1944
7.4
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster
1944
7.6
Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
1943
7.1
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
1942
6.0
Desperate Journey
as Major Otto Baumeister
1942
6.0
Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler
1942
6.4
Dangerously They Live
as Dr. Ingersoll
1941
5.9
49th Parallel
as Andy Brock
1941
6.9
Santa Fe Trail
as John Brown
1940
5.7
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Abe Lincoln
1940
6.8
Black Limelight
as Peter Charrington
1938
5.8
The Drum
as Prince Ghul
1938
5.9
The Hurricane
as DeLaage
1937
6.7
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Black Michael
1937
7.5
Under the Red Robe
as Cardinal Richelieu
1937
6.3
Fire Over England
as King Philip II of Spain
1937
6.2
Dreaming Lips
as Miguel del Vayo
1937
6.0
Things to Come
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
1936
6.5
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Chauvelin
1934
6.9
The Old Dark House
as Philip Waverton
1932
6.7
🎬
The Face at the Window
as Paul le Gros
1932
0.0
The Speckled Band
as Sherlock Holmes
1931
5.5
The Crooked Billet
1930
0.0
High Treason
as Member of Federated States Council
1929
5.8