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Home/People/Raymond Massey
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Born
Aug 30, 1896Died: Jul 29, 1983
Lived 86 years
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

63
Movies
31
TV Shows
Also Known As
Raymond Hart Massey
IMDb Profile

Raymond Massey

Acting

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).
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary poster

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

as Matthew Cunningham
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing poster

The President's Plane Is Missing

as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1973
All My Darling Daughters poster

All My Darling Daughters

as Matthew Cunningham
1972
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age poster

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

as Abraham Lincoln
1971
Mackenna's Gold poster

Mackenna's Gold

as The Preacher
1969
Saint Joan poster

Saint Joan

as The Inquisitor
1967
Choice poster

Choice

as Narrator
1964
How the West Was Won poster

How the West Was Won

as Abraham Lincoln
1962
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey poster

Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey

as Narrator
1962
The Queen's Guards poster

The Queen's Guards

Cast
1961
The Fiercest Heart poster

The Fiercest Heart

as Willem Prisloom
1961
The Great Impostor poster

The Great Impostor

as Abbott Donner
1960
Seconds for Survival poster

Seconds for Survival

as Self - Narrator (voice)
1960
The Naked and the Dead poster

The Naked and the Dead

as General Cummings
1958
Omar Khayyam poster

Omar Khayyam

as The Shah
1957
Mayerling poster

Mayerling

as The Prime Minister
1957
The True Story of the Civil War poster

The True Story of the Civil War

as Narrator
1956
The Naked Eye poster

The Naked Eye

as Sprecher
1956
East of Eden poster

East of Eden

as Adam Trask
1955
Seven Angry Men poster

Seven Angry Men

as John Brown
1955