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Raymond Massey
Actor · Producer · Crew· Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
The roles that explain the career.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Jonathan Brewster · 1944
East of Eden
Adam Trask · 1955
How the West Was Won
Abraham Lincoln · 1962
A Matter of Life and Death
Abraham Farlan · 1946
The Woman in the Window
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor · 1944
The Old Dark House
1932
Things to Come
John Cabal / Oswald Cabal · 1936
Mackenna's Gold
The Preacher · 1969
Filmography
57 credits across 3 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Absolute Deception | Coroner | Film |
| 2013 | The Christmas Consultant | Producer | Film |
| 2011 | Mega Cyclone | Producer | Film |
| 2009 | The Zero Sum | Executive Producer | Film |
| 2009 | Iron Road | Producer | Film |
| 2004 | The Papal Chase | Executive Producer | Film |
| 2002 | Black Point | Producer | Film |
| 2002 | Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity | Producer | Film |
| 2001 | Class Warfare | Producer | Film |
| 2001 | Suspicious River | Co-Producer | Film |
| 1997 | Pitch | Producer | Film |
| 1972 | All My Darling Daughters | Matthew Cunningham | Film |
| 1971 | Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age | Abraham Lincoln | Film |
| 1969 | Mackenna's Gold | The Preacher | Film |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Abraham Lincoln | Film |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie | TV |
| 1961 | The Queen's Guards | Film | |
| 1960 | The Great Impostor | Abbott Donner | Film |
| 1958 | The Naked and the Dead | General Cummings | Film |
| 1957 | Omar Khayyam | The Shah | Film |
| 1957 | Mayerling | The Prime Minister | Film |
| 1956 | The Naked Eye | Sprecher | Film |
| 1955 | Seven Angry Men | John Brown | Film |
| 1955 | Prince of Players | Junius Brutus Booth | Film |
| 1955 | Battle Cry | Major General Snipes | Film |
| 1955 | East of Eden | Adam Trask | Film |
| 1952 | Carson City | Big Jack Davis | Film |
| 1951 | Come Fill the Cup | John Ives | Film |
| 1951 | David and Bathsheba | Nathan | Film |
| 1951 | Sugarfoot | Jacob Stint | Film |
| 1950 | Dallas | Will Marlow | Film |
| 1950 | Chain Lightning | Leland Willis | Film |
| 1949 | Roseanna McCoy | Old Randall McCoy | Film |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Gail Wynand | Film |
| 1947 | Possessed | Dean Graham | Film |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Ezra Mannon | Film |
| 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | Abraham Farlan | Film |
| 1945 | God Is My Co-Pilot | Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault | Film |
| 1945 | Hotel Berlin | Arnim von Dahnwitz | Film |
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Jonathan Brewster | Film |
| 1944 | The Woman in the Window | Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor | Film |
| 1943 | Action in the North Atlantic | Capt. Steve Jarvis | Film |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | King Cutler | Film |
| 1942 | Desperate Journey | Major Otto Baumeister | Film |
| 1941 | Dangerously They Live | Dr. Ingersoll | Film |
| 1941 | 49th Parallel | Andy Brock | Film |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | John Brown | Film |
| 1940 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abe Lincoln | Film |
| 1938 | The Drum | Prince Ghul | Film |
| 1937 | The Hurricane | DeLaage | Film |
| 1937 | Under the Red Robe | Cardinal Richelieu | Film |
| 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Black Michael | Film |
| 1937 | Fire Over England | King Philip II of Spain | Film |
| 1936 | Things to Come | John Cabal / Oswald Cabal | Film |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin | Film |
| 1931 | The Speckled Band | Sherlock Holmes | Film |
| 1929 | High Treason | Member of Federated States Council | Film |
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