Raymond Massey
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
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
as Matthew Cunningham
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
All My Darling Daughters
1972
as Matthew Cunningham
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
as Abraham Lincoln
Mackenna's Gold
1969
as The Preacher
Saint Joan
1967
as The Inquisitor
- No poster
Choice
1964
as Narrator
How the West Was Won
1962
as Abraham Lincoln
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
1962
as Narrator
The Queen's Guards
1961
- No poster
The Fiercest Heart
1961
as Willem Prisloom
The Great Impostor
1960
as Abbott Donner
Seconds for Survival
1960
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Naked and the Dead
1958
as General Cummings
Omar Khayyam
1957
as The Shah
Mayerling
1957
as The Prime Minister
The True Story of the Civil War
1956
as Narrator
The Naked Eye
1956
as Narrator (voice)
East of Eden
1955
as Adam Trask
Seven Angry Men
1955
as John Brown
Battle Cry
1955
as Major General Snipes
Prince of Players
1955
as Junius Brutus Booth
- No poster
The American Road
1953
as Narrator
The Desert Song
1953
as Sheik Yousseff