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Raymond Massey
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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), Masse…
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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).
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1973
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Movie Matthew Cunningham
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1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
Movie Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
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1972
All My Darling Daughters
Movie Matthew Cunningham
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1971
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Movie Abraham Lincoln
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1970
Night Gallery
TV show Dr. Glendon
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1969
Mackenna's Gold
Movie The Preacher
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1967
Saint Joan
Movie The Inquisitor
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1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show B. Elzie Bubb
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1964
Choice
Movie Narrator
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1962
How the West Was Won
Movie Abraham Lincoln
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1962
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Movie Narrator
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1961
The Queen's Guards
Movie
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
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1961
The Fiercest Heart
Movie Willem Prisloom
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1960
The Great Impostor
Movie Abbott Donner
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1960
Insight
TV show
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1960
Seconds for Survival
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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1959
Adventures in Paradise
TV show Captain William Brooks
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1959
Riverboat
TV show Sir Oliver Garnett
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1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV show Amos Claypool
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1958
The Naked and the Dead
Movie General Cummings
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1957
Wagon Train
TV show Montezuma IX
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1957
Omar Khayyam
Movie The Shah
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1957
Mayerling
Movie The Prime Minister
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1956
The True Story of the Civil War
Movie Narrator
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1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV show Malachi West
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1956
Armchair Theatre
TV show Sir George Sidney, MP
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1956
The Naked Eye
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV show George Apley
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Sam Pine
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1955
East of Eden
Movie Adam Trask
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1955
Seven Angry Men
Movie John Brown
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1955
Battle Cry
Movie Major General Snipes
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1955
Prince of Players
Movie Junius Brutus Booth
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1954
Climax!
TV show Sir George Sidney
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1953
The American Road
Movie Narrator
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1953
The Desert Song
Movie Sheik Yousseff
