
Raymond Massey
Biography
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).
Filmography

Saint Joan
1967 · 10.0
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
1950 · 10.0
The Face at the Window
1932 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
Ford Theatre
1948 · 8.0

The Crooked Billet
1930 · 8.0

Night Gallery
1970 · 7.9

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · 7.8

A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · 7.7

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · 7.6

East of Eden
1955 · 7.5

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973 · 7.5

The Prisoner of Zenda
1937 · 7.5

All My Darling Daughters
1972 · 7.5

The Woman in the Window
1944 · 7.4

The True Story of the Civil War
1956 · 7.2

God Is My Co-Pilot
1945 · 7.1

Action in the North Atlantic
1943 · 7.1

49th Parallel
1941 · 7.0

Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
1962 · 7.0

The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · 7.0

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940 · 7.0

Come Fill the Cup
1951 · 7.0

Dreaming Lips
1937 · 7.0
The American Road
1953 · 7.0

How the West Was Won
1962 · 7.0

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 · 6.9

The Fountainhead
1949 · 6.9

Possessed
1947 · 6.9

The Great Impostor
1960 · 6.9

General Electric Theater
1953 · 6.8

The Desert Song
1953 · 6.8

Under the Red Robe
1937 · 6.8

The Old Dark House
1932 · 6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 6.7

The Hurricane
1937 · 6.7

Insight
1960 · 6.7

Wagon Train
1957 · 6.6

Mackenna's Gold
1969 · 6.6

Black Limelight
1938 · 6.6

Riverboat
1959 · 6.5

Things to Come
1936 · 6.4

Chain Lightning
1950 · 6.4

Dallas
1950 · 6.4

Barricade
1950 · 6.4

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 · 6.3

Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · 6.3

Dangerously They Live
1941 · 6.3

The President's Plane Is Missing
1973 · 6.3

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · 6.2

Carson City
1952 · 6.2

Fire Over England
1937 · 6.2

Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · 6.2

Hotel Berlin
1945 · 6.2

Adventures in Paradise
1959 · 6.1

Desperate Journey
1942 · 6.1

The Drum
1938 · 6.1

Roseanna McCoy
1949 · 6.1

Mayerling
1957 · 6.1

High Treason
1929 · 6.1

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · 6.0

Lights Out
1949 · 6.0

The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · 6.0

Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6.0

Seven Angry Men
1955 · 6.0

Battle Cry
1955 · 5.8

David and Bathsheba
1951 · 5.8

Omar Khayyam
1957 · 5.8

The Speckled Band
1931 · 5.8

Dr. Kildare
1961 · 5.7

Santa Fe Trail
1940 · 5.7

The Naked and the Dead
1958 · 5.7
The Fiercest Heart
1961 · 5.7

Prince of Players
1955 · 5.5

Sugarfoot
1951 · 5.3

The Queen's Guards
1961 · 5.2

Climax!
1954 · 3.8
Choice
1964 · 1.0

The Ford Theatre Hour
1948 · 0.0

Years Ago
1948 · 0.0

The Naked Eye
1956 · 0.0

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971 · 0.0