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Raymond Massey

Raymond Massey

Birthday: 1896-08-30 | Place of Birth: 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).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2005
East of Eden

as    Adam Trask

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
1962
The Civil War

as    President Abraham Lincoln

1961
The Great Impostor

as    Abbott Donner

1961
Dr. Kildare

as    Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie

1961
The Fiercest Heart

as    Willem Prisloom

1960
Seconds for Survival

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

1958
The Naked and the Dead

as    General Cummings

1957
Mayerling

as    The Prime Minister

1957
Omar Khayyam

as    The Shah

1956
The True Story of the Civil War

as    Narrator

1955
Seven Angry Men

as    John Brown

1955
Prince of Players

as    Junius Brutus Booth

1955
Battle Cry

as    Major General Snipes

1953
The Desert Song

as    Sheik Yousseff

1952
Carson City

as    Big Jack Davis

1951
Sugarfoot

as    Jacob Stint

1951
Come Fill the Cup

as    John Ives

1951
David and Bathsheba

as    Nathan

1950
Chain Lightning

as    Leland Willis