Raymond Massey
Acting
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).
Known for
1973My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Matthew Cunningham
1973The President's Plane Is Missing
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1972All My Darling Daughters
Matthew Cunningham
1971Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Abraham Lincoln
1969Mackenna's Gold
The Preacher
1967Saint Joan
The Inquisitor
1962How the West Was Won
Abraham Lincoln
1962Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Narrator
1961The Queen's Guards
1960The Great Impostor
Abbott Donner
1960Seconds for Survival
Self - Narrator (voice)
1958The Naked and the Dead
General Cummings
1957Mayerling
The Prime Minister
1957Omar Khayyam
The Shah
1956The Naked Eye
Sprecher
1956The True Story of the Civil War
Narrator
1955East of Eden
Adam Trask
1955Battle Cry
Major General Snipes
1955Seven Angry Men
John Brown
1955Prince of Players
Junius Brutus Booth
1953The Desert Song
Sheik Yousseff
1952Carson City
Big Jack Davis
1951David and Bathsheba
Nathan
1951Come Fill the Cup
John Ives