Raymond Massey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 30, 1896, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- July 29, 1983
- Movies
- 64
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1973 | My Darling Daughters' Anniversary | Matthew Cunningham |
| 1973 | The President's Plane Is Missing | Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey |
| 1972 | All My Darling Daughters | Matthew Cunningham |
| 1971 | Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1969 | Mackenna's Gold | The Preacher |
| 1967 | Saint Joan | The Inquisitor |
| 1964 | Choice | Narrator |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1962 | Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey | Narrator |
| 1961 | The Queen's Guards | |
| 1961 | The Fiercest Heart | Willem Prisloom |
| 1960 | The Great Impostor | Abbott Donner |
| 1960 | Seconds for Survival | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1958 | The Naked and the Dead | General Cummings |
| 1957 | Omar Khayyam | The Shah |
| 1957 | Mayerling | The Prime Minister |
| 1956 | The True Story of the Civil War | Narrator |
| 1956 | The Naked Eye | Narrator (voice) |
| 1955 | East of Eden | Adam Trask |
| 1955 | Seven Angry Men | John Brown |
| 1955 | Battle Cry | Major General Snipes |
| 1955 | Prince of Players | Junius Brutus Booth |
| 1953 | The American Road | Narrator |
| 1953 | The Desert Song | Sheik Yousseff |
| 1952 | Carson City | Big Jack Davis |
| 1951 | Come Fill the Cup | John Ives |
| 1951 | David and Bathsheba | Nathan |
| 1951 | Sugarfoot | Jacob Stint |
| 1950 | Dallas | Will Marlow |
| 1950 | Challenge: Science Against Cancer | Narrated by (voice) |
| 1950 | Barricade | Boss Kruger |
| 1950 | Chain Lightning | Leland Willis |
| 1949 | Roseanna McCoy | Old Randall McCoy |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Gail Wynand |
| 1948 | Years Ago | Clinton Jones |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Ezra Mannon |
| 1947 | Possessed | Dean Graham |
| 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | Abraham Farlan |
| 1945 | God Is My Co-Pilot | Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault |
| 1945 | Hotel Berlin | Arnim von Dahnwitz |
| 1944 | The Woman in the Window | Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor |
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Jonathan Brewster |
| 1943 | Action in the North Atlantic | Capt. Steve Jarvis |
| 1942 | Breakdowns of 1942 | Self |
| 1942 | Desperate Journey | Major Otto Baumeister |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | King Cutler |
| 1941 | Dangerously They Live | Dr. Ingersoll |
| 1941 | 49th Parallel | Andy Brock |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | John Brown |
| 1940 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abe Lincoln |
| 1938 | Black Limelight | Peter Charrington |
| 1938 | The Drum | Prince Ghul |
| 1937 | The Hurricane | DeLaage |
| 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Black Michael |
| 1937 | Under the Red Robe | Cardinal Richelieu |
| 1937 | Fire Over England | King Philip II of Spain |
| 1937 | Dreaming Lips | Miguel del Vayo |
| 1936 | Things to Come | John Cabal / Oswald Cabal |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin |
| 1932 | The Old Dark House | Philip Waverton |
| 1932 | The Face at the Window | Paul le Gros |
| 1931 | The Speckled Band | Sherlock Holmes |
| 1930 | The Crooked Billet | |
| 1929 | High Treason | (uncredited) |
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