Acting · New York City, New York, USA · Born August 13, 1908
Gene Raymond, born Raymond Guion, was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot. His screen debut was in Personal Maid (1931). Another early appearance was in the multi-director If I Had a Million with W. C. Fields and Charles Laughton. With his blond good looks, classic profile, and youthful exuberance — plus a name change to the more pronounceable "Gene Raymond" — he scored in films like the classic Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, and a series of light RKO musicals, mostly with Ann Sothern. He wrote a number of songs, including the popular "Will You?" which he sang to Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town. His wife, Jeanette MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled "Let Me Always Sing". His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. MacDonald and Raymond made one film together, Smilin' Through, which came out as the U.S. was on the verge of entering World War II. After service in the United States Army Air Forces Raymond returned to Hollywood. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1949 film Million Dollar Weekend. In later years he appeared in only a few films. His last major film was The Best Man in 1964 with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. In the 1950s he mostly worked in television, appearing in Playhouse of Stars, Fireside Theatre, Hollywood Summer Theater and TV Reader's Digest. In the 1970s he appeared on ABC Television Network's Paris 7000 and had guest roles in The Outer Limits, Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Defenders, Mannix, The Name of the Game, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre and U.S. Steel Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Raymond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
MovieComplicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
MovieNelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
1992
as Self
TVThe RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
1987
as Self
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
as Emory Latimer Johns
TVThe Invisible Man
1975
as Sen. Albert Hanover
TVEmergency!
1972
as J.P. Dumont
MovieFive Bloody Graves
1969
as The Voice of Death
TVThe Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as Walter Markle
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Senator Reeland
TVMannix
1967
as Richmond Greene
TVJudd, for the Defense
1967
TVHondo
1967
TVIronside
1967
as Marcus Weathers
TVThe Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
as Charles Vechten
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Harlan Franciscus
TVLaredo
1965
MovieThe Hanged Man
1964
as Whitey Devlin
TVThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Col. Allan Morgan
MovieI'd Rather Be Rich
1964
as Martin Wood
MovieThe Best Man
1964
as Don Cantwell
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Arthur Wade
TVChanning
1963
as Matt Bellamy
TVThe Outer Limits
1963
as Sawyer
TVSam Benedict
1962
TVThe Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Phil
TVJohnny Ringo
1959
as Silky Carter
Woman on the Run
1959
TVThe Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958
as John Niles
MoviePlunder Road
1957
as Eddie Harris
MovieWhere's Charley?
1957
as Col. Sir Francis Chesney
TVMatinee Theater
1955
MovieHit the Deck
1955
as Wendell Craig
TVTV Reader's Digest
1955
TVClimax!
1954
as Grady Lederer
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
TVLetter to Loretta
1953
as Mark Colby
TVMedallion Theatre
1953
TVThe Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Stanley
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as US Army Major
TVThe Red Skelton Show
1951
as General
TVTales of Tomorrow
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as John Aldrid
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
Fireside Theater
1949
as Host
TVStudio One
1948
as Charles Sterling
MovieMillion Dollar Weekend
1948
as Nicholas Lawrence
MovieSofia
1948
as Steve Roark
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieAssigned to Danger
1948
as Dan Sullivan
TVKraft Television Theatre
1947
as Andy Clements
MovieThe Locket
1946
as John Willis
MovieSmilin' Through
1941
as Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
MovieMr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
as Jeff
MovieCross-Country Romance
1940
as Lawrence Smith
MovieStolen Heaven
1938
as Carl
MovieShe's Got Everything
1937
as Fuller Partridge
MovieThe Life of the Party
1937
as Barry Saunders
MovieThere Goes My Girl
1937
as Jerry Martin
MovieThat Girl from Paris
1936
as Windy McLean
MovieSmartest Girl in Town
1936
as Richard Stuyvesant Smith
MovieWalking on Air
1936
as Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
MovieThe Bride Walks Out
1936
as Michael Martin
MovieLove on a Bet
1936
as Michael MacCreigh
MovieSeven Keys to Baldpate
1935
as William Magee
MovieHooray for Love
1935
as Douglas Tyler
MovieTransient Lady
1935
as Carey Marshall
MovieThe Woman in Red
1935
as John 'Johnny' Wyatt
MovieBehold My Wife!
1934
as Michael Carter
MovieTransatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
as Jimmy Brett
MovieSadie McKee
1934
as Tommy
MovieComing Out Party
1934
as Chris Hansen
MovieI Am Suzanne!
1933
as Tony Malatini
MovieThe House on 56th Street
1933
as Monte Van Tyle
MovieFlying Down to Rio
1933
as Roger Bond
MovieBrief Moment
1933
as Rodney Deane
MovieAnn Carver's Profession
1933
as Bill
MovieEx-Lady
1933
as Don Peterson
MovieZoo in Budapest
1933
as Zani
MovieIf I Had a Million
1932
as John Wallace (uncredited)
MovieRed Dust
1932
as Gary Willis
MovieThe Night of June 13
1932
as Herbert Morrow
MovieForgotten Commandments
1932
as Paul Ossipoff
MovieLadies of the Big House
1931
as Standish McNeil
MoviePersonal Maid
1931
as Dick Gary
