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Raymond Massey

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 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

Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1896-08-30

Died: 1983-07-29

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	High Treason	Member of Federated States Council	58
2	1930	The Crooked Billet		0
3	1931	The Speckled Band	Sherlock Holmes	55
4	1932	The Face at the Window	Paul le Gros	0
5	1932	The Old Dark House	Philip Waverton	67
6	1934	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Chauvelin	69
7	1936	Things to Come	John Cabal / Oswald Cabal	65
8	1937	Dreaming Lips	Miguel del Vayo	60
9	1937	Fire Over England	King Philip II of Spain	60
10	1937	Under the Red Robe	Cardinal Richelieu	60
11	1937	The Prisoner of Zenda	Black Michael	74
12	1937	The Hurricane	DeLaage	66
13	1938	Black Limelight	Peter Charrington	58
14	1938	The Drum	Prince Ghul	58
15	1940	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Abe Lincoln	70
16	1940	Santa Fe Trail	John Brown	57
17	1941	49th Parallel	Andy Brock	69
18	1941	Dangerously They Live	Dr. Ingersoll	59
19	1942	Reap the Wild Wind	King Cutler	64
20	1942	Desperate Journey	Major Otto Baumeister	59
21	1942	Breakdowns of 1942	Self	60
22	1943	Action in the North Atlantic	Capt. Steve Jarvis	71
23	1944	Arsenic and Old Lace	Jonathan Brewster	76
24	1944	The Woman in the Window	Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor	74
25	1945	Hotel Berlin	Arnim von Dahnwitz	61
26	1945	God Is My Co-Pilot	Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault	70
27	1946	A Matter of Life and Death	Abraham Farlan	78
28	1947	Possessed	Dean Graham	68
29	1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Ezra Mannon	63
30	1949	The Fountainhead	Gail Wynand	69
31	1949	Roseanna McCoy	Old Randall McCoy	61
32	1950	Chain Lightning	Leland Willis	62
33	1950	Barricade	Boss Kruger	63
34	1950	Challenge: Science Against Cancer	Narrated by (voice)	0
35	1950	Dallas	Will Marlow	65
36	1951	Sugarfoot	Jacob Stint	50
37	1951	David and Bathsheba	Nathan	57
38	1951	Come Fill the Cup	John Ives	70
39	1952	Carson City	Big Jack Davis	61
40	1953	The Desert Song	Sheik Yousseff	65
41	1953	The American Road	Narrator	0
42	1955	Prince of Players	Junius Brutus Booth	47
43	1955	Battle Cry	Major General Snipes	57
44	1955	Seven Angry Men	John Brown	52
45	1955	East of Eden	Adam Trask	76
46	1956	The Naked Eye	Sprecher	0
47	1956	The True Story of the Civil War	Narrator	70
48	1957	Mayerling	The Prime Minister	55
49	1957	Omar Khayyam	The Shah	50
50	1958	The Naked and the Dead	General Cummings	59
51	1960	Seconds for Survival	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
52	1960	The Great Impostor	Abbott Donner	69
53	1961	The Fiercest Heart	Willem Prisloom	50
54	1961	The Queen's Guards		48
55	1962	How the West Was Won	Abraham Lincoln	70
56	1964	Choice	Narrator	10
57	1967	Saint Joan	The Inquisitor	0
58	1969	Mackenna's Gold	The Preacher	66
59	1971	Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age	Abraham Lincoln	0
60	1972	All My Darling Daughters	Matthew Cunningham	60
61	1973	The President's Plane Is Missing	Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey	62
62	1973	My Darling Daughters' Anniversary	Matthew Cunningham	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	Ford Theatre		0
3	1948	The Ford Theatre Hour	Clinton Jones	0
4	1949	Lights Out		53
5	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
6	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Dr. Henry Craig	56
7	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Dr. Clark Evans	56
8	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Judge Benton	56
9	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
10	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Abe Lincoln	63
11	1951	The Victor Borge Show	Self	0
12	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	The Inquisitor	86
13	1953	General Electric Theater	Lord Hook	63
14	1953	General Electric Theater	Paul von Hindenburg	63
15	1954	Climax!	Sir George Sidney	33
16	1954	Climax!	Doc Woodward	33
17	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Sam Pine	77
18	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
19	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Malachi West	55
20	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse	Amos Claypool	58
21	1959	Riverboat	Sir Oliver Garnett	62
22	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Captain William Brooks	57
23	1960	Insight		60
24	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie	55
25	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
26	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
27	1966	The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.		66
28	1970	Night Gallery	Dr. Glendon	78