Raymond Massey

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).

Actor

1929

[ ] High Treason (Member of Federated States Council)

1930

[ ] The Crooked Billet (????)

1931

[ ] The Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes)

1932

[ ] The Old Dark House (Philip Waverton)
[ ] The Face at the Window (Paul le Gros)

1934

[ ] The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chauvelin)

1936

[ ] Things to Come (John Cabal / Oswald Cabal)

1937

[ ] Fire Over England (King Philip II of Spain)
[ ] The Prisoner of Zenda (Black Michael)
[ ] The Hurricane (DeLaage)
[ ] Under the Red Robe (Cardinal Richelieu)
[ ] Dreaming Lips (Miguel del Vayo)

1938

[ ] The Drum (Prince Ghul)
[ ] Black Limelight (Peter Charrington)

1940

[ ] Santa Fe Trail (John Brown)
[ ] Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Abe Lincoln)

1941

[ ] Dangerously They Live (Dr. Ingersoll)
[ 6/10 ] 49th Parallel (Andy Brock)

1942

[ ] Reap the Wild Wind (King Cutler)
[ ] Desperate Journey (Major Otto Baumeister)
[ ] Breakdowns of 1942 (Self)

1943

[ ] Action in the North Atlantic (Capt. Steve Jarvis)

1944

[ ] Arsenic and Old Lace (Jonathan Brewster)
[ ] The Woman in the Window (Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor)

1945

[ ] God Is My Co-Pilot (Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault)
[ ] Hotel Berlin (Arnim von Dahnwitz)

1946

[ ] A Matter of Life and Death (Abraham Farlan)

1947

[ ] Possessed (Dean Graham)
[ ] Mourning Becomes Electra (Ezra Mannon)

1949

[ 6/10 ] The Fountainhead (Gail Wynand)
[ ] Roseanna McCoy (Old Randall McCoy)

1950

[ ] Chain Lightning (Leland Willis)
[ ] Dallas (Will Marlow)
[ ] Barricade (Boss Kruger)
[ ] Challenge: Science Against Cancer (Narrated by (voice))

1951

[ ] David and Bathsheba (Nathan)
[ ] Come Fill the Cup (John Ives)
[ ] Sugarfoot (Jacob Stint)

1952

[ ] Carson City (Big Jack Davis)

1953

[ ] The Desert Song (Sheik Yousseff)
[ ] The American Road (Narrator)

1955

[ 9/10 ] East of Eden (Adam Trask)
[ ] Battle Cry (Major General Snipes)
[ ] Seven Angry Men (John Brown)
[ ] Prince of Players (Junius Brutus Booth)

1956

[ ] The Naked Eye (Sprecher)
[ ] The True Story of the Civil War (Narrator)

1957

[ ] Mayerling (The Prime Minister)
[ ] Omar Khayyam (The Shah)

1958

[ ] The Naked and the Dead (General Cummings)

1960

[ ] The Great Impostor (Abbott Donner)
[ ] Seconds for Survival (Self - Narrator (voice))

1961

[ ] The Queen's Guards (????)
[ ] The Fiercest Heart (Willem Prisloom)

1962

[ ] How the West Was Won (Abraham Lincoln)
[ ] Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (Narrator)

1964

[ ] Choice (Narrator)

1967

[ ] Saint Joan (The Inquisitor)

1969

[ ] Mackenna's Gold (The Preacher)

1971

[ ] Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (Abraham Lincoln)

1972

[ ] All My Darling Daughters (Matthew Cunningham)

1973

[ ] My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (Matthew Cunningham)
[ ] The President's Plane Is Missing (Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey)