Raymond Massey
August 30, 1896 (129 years old) in 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 (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
Credits
- 1974 · Dinah! as Self
- 1973 · My Darling Daughters' Anniversary as Matthew Cunningham
- 1973 · The President's Plane Is Missing as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
- 1972 · All My Darling Daughters as Matthew Cunningham
- 1971 · Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age as Abraham Lincoln
- 1970 · Night Gallery as Dr. Glendon
- 1969 · Mackenna's Gold as The Preacher
- 1967 · Saint Joan as The Inquisitor
- 1966 · The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as B. Elzie Bubb
- 1964 · Choice as Narrator
- 1962 · How the West Was Won as Abraham Lincoln
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1962 · Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey as Narrator
- 1961 · The Queen's Guards as
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
- 1961 · The Fiercest Heart as Willem Prisloom
- 1960 · The Great Impostor as Abbott Donner
- 1960 · Insight as
- 1960 · Seconds for Survival as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1959 · Adventures in Paradise as Captain William Brooks
- 1959 · Riverboat as Sir Oliver Garnett
- 1958 · Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Amos Claypool
- 1958 · The Naked and the Dead as General Cummings
- 1957 · Wagon Train as Montezuma IX
- 1957 · Omar Khayyam as The Shah
- 1957 · Mayerling as The Prime Minister
- 1956 · The True Story of the Civil War as Narrator
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Malachi West
- 1956 · The Naked Eye as Sprecher
- 1955 · The 20th Century Fox Hour as
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sam Pine
- 1955 · East of Eden as Adam Trask
- 1955 · Seven Angry Men as John Brown
- 1955 · Battle Cry as Major General Snipes
- 1955 · Prince of Players as Junius Brutus Booth
- 1954 · Climax! as Sir George Sidney
- 1954 · Climax! as Doc Woodward
- 1953 · The American Road as Narrator
- 1953 · The Desert Song as Sheik Yousseff
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Lord Hook
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Paul von Hindenburg
- 1952 · Carson City as Big Jack Davis
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as The Inquisitor
- 1951 · Come Fill the Cup as John Ives
- 1951 · David and Bathsheba as Nathan
- 1951 · Sugarfoot as Jacob Stint
- 1951 · The Victor Borge Show as Self
- 1950 · Dallas as Will Marlow
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Abe Lincoln
- 1950 · Challenge: Science Against Cancer as Narrated by (voice)
- 1950 · The Bob Hope Show as Self
- 1950 · Barricade as Boss Kruger
- 1950 · Chain Lightning as Leland Willis
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Dr. Henry Craig
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Dr. Clark Evans
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Judge Benton
- 1949 · Roseanna McCoy as Old Randall McCoy
- 1949 · Lights Out as
- 1949 · The Fountainhead as Gail Wynand
- 1948 · Ford Theatre as