Raymond Massey

Actor

Born: August 30, 1896
Died: July 29, 1983 (age 86)
From: 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…

Filmography (63)

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)
Matthew Cunningham
The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
All My Darling Daughters (1972)
Matthew Cunningham
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971)
Abraham Lincoln
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
The Preacher
Saint Joan (1967)
The Inquisitor
Choice
Choice (1964)
Narrator
How the West Was Won (1962)
Abraham Lincoln
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962)
Narrator
The Queen's Guards (1961)
The Fiercest Heart
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
Willem Prisloom
The Great Impostor (1960)
Abbott Donner
Seconds for Survival (1960)
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
General Cummings
Omar Khayyam (1957)
The Shah
Mayerling (1957)
The Prime Minister
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
Narrator
The Naked Eye (1956)
Sprecher
East of Eden (1955)
Adam Trask
Seven Angry Men (1955)
John Brown
Battle Cry (1955)
Major General Snipes
Prince of Players (1955)
Junius Brutus Booth
The American Road
The American Road (1953)
Narrator
The Desert Song (1953)
Sheik Yousseff
Carson City (1952)
Big Jack Davis
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
John Ives
David and Bathsheba (1951)
Nathan
Sugarfoot (1951)
Jacob Stint
Dallas (1950)
Will Marlow
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950)
Narrated by (voice)