Raymond Massey
Acting
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).
Born: August 30, 1896
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Night Gallery
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
A Matter of Life and Death
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
East of Eden
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Action in the North Atlantic
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Filmography
as Self
as Matthew Cunningham
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
as Matthew Cunningham
as Abraham Lincoln
as Dr. Glendon
as The Preacher
as The Inquisitor
as B. Elzie Bubb
as Abraham Lincoln
as Self
as Narrator
as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
as Willem Prisloom
as Abbott Donner
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Captain William Brooks
as Sir Oliver Garnett
as Amos Claypool
as General Cummings
as Montezuma IX
as The Shah
as The Prime Minister
as Narrator
as Malachi West
as Sprecher
as Sam Pine
as Adam Trask
as John Brown
as Major General Snipes
as Junius Brutus Booth
as Sir George Sidney
as Doc Woodward
as Sheik Yousseff
as Lord Hook
as Paul von Hindenburg
as Big Jack Davis
as The Inquisitor
as John Ives
as Nathan
as Jacob Stint
as Will Marlow
as Self
as Boss Kruger
as Leland Willis
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Dr. Henry Craig
as Dr. Clark Evans
as Judge Benton
as Old Randall McCoy
as Gail Wynand
as Clinton Jones
as Self
as Ezra Mannon
as Dean Graham
as Abraham Farlan
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
as Jonathan Brewster
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
as Self
as Major Otto Baumeister
as King Cutler
as Dr. Ingersoll
as Andy Brock
as John Brown
as Abe Lincoln
as Peter Charrington
as Prince Ghul
as DeLaage
as Black Michael
as Cardinal Richelieu
as King Philip II of Spain
as Miguel del Vayo
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
as Chauvelin
as Philip Waverton
as Sherlock Holmes
as Member of Federated States Council