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Raymond Massey
Born 1896-08-30Toronto, 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).
Screen work
Movies & roles
My Darling Daughters' AnniversaryMatthew CunninghamThe President's Plane Is MissingSecretary of State Freeman SharkeyAll My Darling DaughtersMatthew CunninghamWalt Whitman: Poet for a New AgeAbraham LincolnMackenna's GoldThe PreacherSaint JoanThe InquisitorChoiceNarratorHow the West Was WonAbraham LincolnJacqueline Kennedy's Asian JourneyNarratorThe Queen's GuardsRoleThe Fiercest HeartWillem PrisloomThe Great ImpostorAbbott DonnerSeconds for SurvivalSelf - Narrator (voice)The Naked and the DeadGeneral CummingsOmar KhayyamThe ShahMayerlingThe Prime MinisterThe True Story of the Civil WarNarratorThe Naked EyeNarrator (voice)East of EdenAdam TraskSeven Angry MenJohn BrownBattle CryMajor General SnipesPrince of PlayersJunius Brutus BoothThe American RoadNarratorThe Desert SongSheik Yousseff