Raymond Massey
Birthday: 1896-08-30 | Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRaymond 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
Acting
Role
as Adam Trask
as Matthew Cunningham
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
as Matthew Cunningham
as Abraham Lincoln
as The Preacher
as The Inquisitor
as Narrator
as Narrator
as President Abraham Lincoln
as Abbott Donner
as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
as Willem Prisloom
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as General Cummings
as The Prime Minister
as The Shah
as Narrator
as John Brown
as Junius Brutus Booth
as Major General Snipes
as Sheik Yousseff
as Big Jack Davis
as Jacob Stint
as John Ives
as Nathan
as Leland Willis
