Raymond Massey
Actor
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
East of Eden
as Adam Trask 1955
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln 1962
A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan 1946
The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor 1944
The Old Dark House
as Philip Waverton 1932
Things to Come
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal 1936
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher 1969
The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand 1949
49th Parallel
as Andy Brock 1941
Possessed
as Dean Graham 1947
David and Bathsheba
as Nathan 1951
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Chauvelin 1934
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Black Michael 1937
Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler 1942
Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis 1943
Santa Fe Trail
as John Brown 1940