Raymond Massey
Birthday: 1896-08-30
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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).
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...
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East of Eden
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelmin...
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Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G...
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Things to Come
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational s...
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Possessed
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor th...
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Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the E...
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Action in the North Atlantic
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged wi...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...
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The Old Dark House
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansi...
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The Fountainhead
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite...
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How the West Was Won
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the en...
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A Matter of Life and Death
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping ...
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David and Bathsheba
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequen...
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The Naked and the Dead
Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their li...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin...
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The Drum
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans t...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...
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Reap the Wild Wind
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvage...
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The Great Impostor
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and w...
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The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder....
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The Speckled Band
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she fe...
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Mackenna's Gold
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups ...
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Dangerously They Live
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents....
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tyco...
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Battle Cry
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story...
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Carson City
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires...
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Desperate Journey
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured b...
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Chain Lightning
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircra...
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds him...
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Come Fill the Cup
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. A...
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Dallas
After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage mur...
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Prince of Players
This biopic follows the story of Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth and his rise to fame. Edwin's caree...
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Hotel Berlin
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third ...
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Mayerling
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunti...
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Roseanna McCoy
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillb...
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The Queen's Guards
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academ...
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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though hi...
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The Desert Song
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing ...
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My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
In this sequel, the daughters' anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to...
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Choice
The notorious political campaign film produced for the 1964 United States presidential campaign of B...
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Barricade
Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to wo...
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Black Limelight
This gripping, atmospheric crime thriller from Austrian-born director Paul Stein stars Oscar nominee...
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The Hurricane
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself a...
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Saint Joan
A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial o...
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49th Parallel
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade c...
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High Treason
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States...
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The Crooked Billet
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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The Fiercest Heart
Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers headin...
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Seconds for Survival
Cold War film illustrating the defense capacity of America's telephone network, highlighting AT&T's ...
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The Naked Eye
The Naked Eye is a 1956 American documentary film about the history of photography directed by Louis...
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Under the Red Robe
In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal R...
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The President's Plane Is Missing
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly we...
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Dreaming Lips
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular...
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All My Darling Daughters
A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on th...
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The True Story of the Civil War
Documentary short about the American Civil War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005....
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Breakdowns of 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....
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The American Road
The history of American transportation from the horse and buggys of yesteryear to the progression of...
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Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
An introduction to Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. A world poet-a latter-day ...
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Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
"This film, made by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) as part of its Cold War campaign to promote A...
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