Cast & creator
Raymond Massey
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show, What's My Line?
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).
Also known as: Raymond Hart Massey
64
film credits
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television credits
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1929–1974 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (98)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Wagon Train
Montezuma IX
1957
Climax!
Sir George Sidney
1954Climax!
Doc Woodward
1954
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
1961
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
Dr. Henry Craig
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
Dr. Clark Evans
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
Judge Benton
1950
Dinah!
Self
1974
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Malachi West
1956
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Night Gallery
Dr. Glendon
1970Night Gallery
Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies")
1970
The 20th Century Fox Hour
George Apley
1955
Adventures in Paradise
Captain William Brooks
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sam Pine
1955
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Amos Claypool
1958
Lights Out
1949Lux Video Theatre
Abe Lincoln
1950
Riverboat
Sir Oliver Garnett
1959
East of Eden
Adam Trask
1955
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
B. Elzie Bubb
1966Ford Theatre
1948
How the West Was Won
Abraham Lincoln
1962
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Inquisitor
1951
Mackenna's Gold
The Preacher
1969
General Electric Theater
Lord Hook
1953General Electric Theater
Paul von Hindenburg
1953
A Matter of Life and Death
Abraham Farlan
1946
Armchair Theatre
Sir George Sidney, MP
1956Armchair Theatre
Writer
1956
Arsenic and Old Lace
Jonathan Brewster
1944
The Ford Theatre Hour
Clinton Jones
1948
The Prisoner of Zenda
Black Michael
1937
Reap the Wild Wind
King Cutler
1942
The Old Dark House
Philip Waverton
1932
The Fountainhead
Gail Wynand
1949
49th Parallel
Andy Brock
1941
The Naked and the Dead
General Cummings
1958
Action in the North Atlantic
Capt. Steve Jarvis
1943
Chain Lightning
Leland Willis
1950
The Woman in the Window
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
1944
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln
1940
David and Bathsheba
Nathan
1951
Things to Come
John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
1936
Dallas
Will Marlow
1950The Victor Borge Show
Self
1951
The Great Impostor
Abbott Donner
1960
All My Darling Daughters
Matthew Cunningham
1972
Battle Cry
Major General Snipes
1955
Carson City
Big Jack Davis
1952
The President's Plane Is Missing
Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1973
God Is My Co-Pilot
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
1945
Sugarfoot
Jacob Stint
1951
Santa Fe Trail
John Brown
1940
Fire Over England
King Philip II of Spain
1937
Desperate Journey
Major Otto Baumeister
1942
Come Fill the Cup
John Ives
1951
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
1942
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chauvelin
1934
The Hurricane
DeLaage
1937The Fiercest Heart
Willem Prisloom
1961
Possessed
Dean Graham
1947Choice
Narrator
1964
Mayerling
The Prime Minister
1957
The Queen's Guards
1961
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
Matthew Cunningham
1973
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ezra Mannon
1947
Omar Khayyam
The Shah
1957
Under the Red Robe
Cardinal Richelieu
1937
Hotel Berlin
Arnim von Dahnwitz
1945
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Abraham Lincoln
1971
Roseanna McCoy
Old Randall McCoy
1949
The Desert Song
Sheik Yousseff
1953
Dangerously They Live
Dr. Ingersoll
1941
The True Story of the Civil War
Narrator
1956
The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes
1931
Insight
1960
The Drum
Prince Ghul
1938
Prince of Players
Junius Brutus Booth
1955
Seven Angry Men
John Brown
1955The Face at the Window
Paul le Gros
1932
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Narrator
1962The American Road
Narrator
1953
Barricade
Boss Kruger
1950
High Treason
Member of Federated States Council
1929Challenge: Science Against Cancer
Narrated by (voice)
1950
Saint Joan
The Inquisitor
1967
Seconds for Survival
Self - Narrator (voice)
1960
The Naked Eye
Narrator (voice)
1956
Black Limelight
Peter Charrington
1938
Dreaming Lips
Miguel del Vayo
1937
Years Ago
Clinton Jones
1948