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).
Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1941 · nominated
Filmography39 titles
Night Gallery
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
East of Eden
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Woman in the Window
God Is My Co-Pilot
Action in the North Atlantic
How the West Was Won
What's My Line?
The Invaders
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Great Impostor
Possessed
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The Fountainhead
The Ed Sullivan Show
Under the Red Robe
The Hurricane
The Old Dark House
Lux Video Theatre
Mackenna's Gold
Wagon Train
Dallas
Things to Come
Barricade
Carson City
Fire Over England
Desperate Journey
The Drum
Lights Out
The 20th Century Fox Hour
David and Bathsheba
Omar Khayyam
Santa Fe Trail
The Speckled Band
Battle Cry