Acting · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Born August 30, 1896
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).
TVDinah!
1974
as Self
MovieMy Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
as Matthew Cunningham
MovieThe President's Plane Is Missing
1973
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
MovieAll My Darling Daughters
1972
as Matthew Cunningham
MovieWalt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
as Abraham Lincoln
TVNight Gallery
1970
as Dr. Glendon
MovieMackenna's Gold
1969
as The Preacher
MovieSaint Joan
1967
as The Inquisitor
TVThe Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
as B. Elzie Bubb
Choice
1964
as Narrator
MovieHow the West Was Won
1962
as Abraham Lincoln
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
MovieJacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
1962
as Narrator
MovieThe Queen's Guards
1961
TVDr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
The Fiercest Heart
1961
as Willem Prisloom
MovieThe Great Impostor
1960
as Abbott Donner
TVInsight
1960
MovieSeconds for Survival
1960
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TVAdventures in Paradise
1959
as Captain William Brooks
TVRiverboat
1959
as Sir Oliver Garnett
TVWestinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Amos Claypool
MovieThe Naked and the Dead
1958
as General Cummings
TVWagon Train
1957
as Montezuma IX
MovieOmar Khayyam
1957
as The Shah
MovieMayerling
1957
as The Prime Minister
MovieThe True Story of the Civil War
1956
as Narrator
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Malachi West
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Sir George Sidney, MP
MovieThe Naked Eye
1956
as Sprecher
TVThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
as George Apley
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Sam Pine
MovieEast of Eden
1955
as Adam Trask
MovieSeven Angry Men
1955
as John Brown
MovieBattle Cry
1955
as Major General Snipes
MoviePrince of Players
1955
as Junius Brutus Booth
TVClimax!
1954
as Sir George Sidney
The American Road
1953
as Narrator
MovieThe Desert Song
1953
as Sheik Yousseff
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Lord Hook
MovieCarson City
1952
as Big Jack Davis
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as The Inquisitor
MovieCome Fill the Cup
1951
as John Ives
MovieDavid and Bathsheba
1951
as Nathan
MovieSugarfoot
1951
as Jacob Stint
The Victor Borge Show
1951
as Self
MovieDallas
1950
as Will Marlow
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Abe Lincoln
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
1950
as Narrated by (voice)
TVThe Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
MovieBarricade
1950
as Boss Kruger
MovieChain Lightning
1950
as Leland Willis
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
MovieRoseanna McCoy
1949
as Old Randall McCoy
TVLights Out
1949
MovieThe Fountainhead
1949
as Gail Wynand
Ford Theatre
1948
TVThe Ford Theatre Hour
1948
as Clinton Jones
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieMourning Becomes Electra
1947
as Ezra Mannon
MoviePossessed
1947
as Dean Graham
MovieA Matter of Life and Death
1946
as Abraham Farlan
MovieGod Is My Co-Pilot
1945
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
MovieHotel Berlin
1945
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
MovieThe Woman in the Window
1944
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
MovieArsenic and Old Lace
1944
as Jonathan Brewster
MovieAction in the North Atlantic
1943
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
MovieBreakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
MovieDesperate Journey
1942
as Major Otto Baumeister
MovieReap the Wild Wind
1942
as King Cutler
MovieDangerously They Live
1941
as Dr. Ingersoll
Movie49th Parallel
1941
as Andy Brock
MovieSanta Fe Trail
1940
as John Brown
MovieAbe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
as Abe Lincoln
MovieBlack Limelight
1938
as Peter Charrington
MovieThe Drum
1938
as Prince Ghul
MovieThe Hurricane
1937
as DeLaage
MovieThe Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Black Michael
MovieUnder the Red Robe
1937
as Cardinal Richelieu
MovieFire Over England
1937
as King Philip II of Spain
MovieDreaming Lips
1937
as Miguel del Vayo
MovieThings to Come
1936
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
MovieThe Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
as Chauvelin
MovieThe Old Dark House
1932
as Philip Waverton
The Face at the Window
1932
as Paul le Gros
MovieThe Speckled Band
1931
as Sherlock Holmes
MovieThe Crooked Billet
1930
MovieHigh Treason
1929
as Member of Federated States Council
