Raymond Massey

Raymond Massey

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

30/08/1896

Day of Death

29/07/1983
(87) years old

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Raymond Hart Massey 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 ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

1973

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

as Matthew Cunningham

1973

The President's Plane Is Missing

as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey

1972

All My Darling Daughters

as Matthew Cunningham

1971

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

as Abraham Lincoln

1969

Mackenna's Gold

as The Preacher

1967

Saint Joan

as The Inquisitor

1964

Choice

as Narrator

1962

How the West Was Won

as Abraham Lincoln

1961

The Fiercest Heart

as Willem Prisloom

1960

The Great Impostor

as Abbott Donner

1960

Seconds for Survival

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1958

The Naked and the Dead

as General Cummings

1957

Omar Khayyam

as The Shah

1957

Mayerling

as The Prime Minister

1956

The Naked Eye

as Sprecher

1955

East of Eden

as Adam Trask

1955

Seven Angry Men

as John Brown

1955

Battle Cry

as Major General Snipes

1955

Prince of Players

as Junius Brutus Booth

1953

The American Road

as Narrator

1953

The Desert Song

as Sheik Yousseff

1952

Carson City

as Big Jack Davis

1951

Come Fill the Cup

as John Ives

1951

David and Bathsheba

as Nathan

1951

Sugarfoot

as Jacob Stint

1950

Dallas

as Will Marlow

1950

Challenge: Science Against Cancer

as Narrated by (voice)

1950

Barricade

as Boss Kruger

1950

Chain Lightning

as Leland Willis

1949

Roseanna McCoy

as Old Randall McCoy

1949

The Fountainhead

as Gail Wynand

1947

Mourning Becomes Electra

as Ezra Mannon

1947

Possessed

as Dean Graham

1946

A Matter of Life and Death

as Abraham Farlan

1945

God Is My Co-Pilot

as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault

1945

Hotel Berlin

as Arnim von Dahnwitz

1944

The Woman in the Window

as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor

1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Jonathan Brewster

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

as Capt. Steve Jarvis

1942

Desperate Journey

as Major Otto Baumeister

1942

Reap the Wild Wind

as King Cutler

1941

Dangerously They Live

as Dr. Ingersoll

1941

49th Parallel

as Andy Brock

1940

Santa Fe Trail

as John Brown

1940

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Abe Lincoln

1938

The Drum

as Prince Ghul

1938

Black Limelight

as Peter Charrington

1937

The Hurricane

as DeLaage

1937

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Black Michael

1937

Under the Red Robe

as Cardinal Richelieu

1937

Fire Over England

as King Philip II of Spain

1937

Dreaming Lips

as Miguel del Vayo

1936

Things to Come

as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal

1934

The Scarlet Pimpernel

as Chauvelin

1932

The Old Dark House

as Philip Waverton

1932

The Face at the Window

as Paul le Gros

1931

The Speckled Band

as Sherlock Holmes

1929

High Treason

as Member of Federated States Council