Raymond Massey
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Aug 30 1896• Died Jul 29 1983
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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 La…
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Wagon Train
Montezuma IX
Climax!
Sir George Sidney
Robert Montgomery Presents
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Malachi West
Dinah!
Self
Night Gallery
Dr. Glendon
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sam Pine
Adventures in Paradise
Captain William Brooks
Lights Out
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Amos Claypool
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
B. Elzie Bubb
Lux Video Theatre
Abe Lincoln
Riverboat
Sir Oliver Garnett
Ford Theatre
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Inquisitor
How the West Was Won
Abraham Lincoln
East of Eden
Adam Trask
A Matter of Life and Death
Abraham Farlan
General Electric Theater
Lord Hook
Santa Fe Trail
John Brown
Hotel Berlin
Arnim von Dahnwitz
Arsenic and Old Lace
Jonathan Brewster
Reap the Wild Wind
King Cutler
The Ford Theatre Hour
Clinton Jones
The Fountainhead
Gail Wynand
The Old Dark House
Philip Waverton
Armchair Theatre
Sir George Sidney, MP
Mackenna's Gold
The Preacher
The Woman in the Window
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
The Great Impostor
Abbott Donner
Possessed
Dean Graham
49th Parallel
Andy Brock
The Prisoner of Zenda
Black Michael
The Hurricane
DeLaage
Dallas
Will Marlow
Come Fill the Cup
John Ives
Things to Come
John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Battle Cry
Major General Snipes
God Is My Co-Pilot
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
The Naked and the Dead
General Cummings
Carson City
Big Jack Davis
The President's Plane Is Missing
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
Action in the North Atlantic
Capt. Steve Jarvis
Mayerling
The Prime Minister
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
David and Bathsheba
Nathan
All My Darling Daughters
Matthew Cunningham
Fire Over England
King Philip II of Spain
Barricade
Boss Kruger
The Fiercest Heart
Willem Prisloom
Desperate Journey
Major Otto Baumeister
The Drum
Prince Ghul
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chauvelin
Seven Angry Men
John Brown
Dangerously They Live
Dr. Ingersoll
Prince of Players
Junius Brutus Booth
The Desert Song
Sheik Yousseff
Roseanna McCoy
Old Randall McCoy
Chain Lightning
Leland Willis
Saint Joan
The Inquisitor
Under the Red Robe
Cardinal Richelieu
Omar Khayyam
The Shah
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ezra Mannon
The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes
The Victor Borge Show
Self
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Abraham Lincoln
Dreaming Lips
Miguel del Vayo
Sugarfoot
Jacob Stint
The Face at the Window
Paul le Gros
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Matthew Cunningham
The Queen's Guards
Insight
Black Limelight
Peter Charrington
The Crooked Billet
High Treason
Member of Federated States Council
Choice
Narrator
The Naked Eye
Sprecher
Seconds for Survival
Self - Narrator (voice)
The American Road
Narrator
The True Story of the Civil War
Narrator
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
Narrated by (voice)
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Narrator