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Raymond Hart Massey 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 also was well known for playing Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–1966). Today, he is most often seen in the film Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), in his role as the malevolent Jonathan Brewster, who looks like Boris Karloff, and violently attacks anyone who mentions the resemblance.
Birth Name
Raymond Hart Massey
Born
Sunday, 30 August 1896
Died
Friday, 29 July 1983
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Daughter of Frankenstein: A Conversation with Sara Karloff | Philip Waverton | 2017 |
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | FDA actor spokesman | 2014 |
Pioneers of Television | Dr. Leonard Gillespie | 2008 |
Waiting for Hockney | Chauvelin | 2008 |
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Philip Waverton | 2007 |
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self | 2007 |
Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America | Scientist Cabal | 2006 |
The Naked Archaeologist | Nathan | 2005 |
Cold Case | Adam Trask in East of Eden | 2003 |
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage) | 1990 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Daughter of Frankenstein: A Conversation with Sara Karloff | Philip Waverton | 2017 |
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | FDA actor spokesman | 2014 |
Pioneers of Television | Dr. Leonard Gillespie | 2008 |
Waiting for Hockney | Chauvelin | 2008 |
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Philip Waverton | 2007 |
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self | 2007 |
Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America | Scientist Cabal | 2006 |
The Naked Archaeologist | Nathan | 2005 |
Cold Case | Adam Trask in East of Eden | 2003 |
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | (archive footage) | 1990 |
American Masters | Adam Trask | 1986 |
Dinah! | Self - Guest | 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary | Matthew Cunningham | 1973 |
The President's Plane Is Missing | Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey | 1973 |
Night Gallery | Dr. Glendon / Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies") | 1969 |
Mackenna's Gold | The Preacher | 1969 |
The Joey Bishop Show | Self - Guest | 1967 |
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | B. Elzie Bubb | 1966 |
The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show | Self - Guest | 1966 |
Missing Links | Self | 1963 |
The Shield of Freedom | Narrator | 1963 |
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey | Narrator | 1962 |
The Match Game | Self - Team Captain | 1962 |
How the West Was Won | Abraham Lincoln | 1962 |
The Eleventh Hour | Dr. Leonard Gillespie | 1962 |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself / Himself - Guest | 1962 |
The Queen's Guards | Captain Fellowes | 1961 |
Dr. Kildare | Dr. Leonard Gillespie / Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie / Graham Lanier | 1961 |
Kraft Mystery Theater | Amos Claypool | 1961 |
The Fiercest Heart | Willem Prinsloo / Willem Prisloom | 1961 |
The Great Impostor | Abbott Donner | 1960 |
Insight | Pope Pius XII | 1960 |
Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
Our American Heritage | President Abraham Lincoln | 1959 |
Adventures in Paradise | Captain William Brooks | 1959 |
Riverboat | Sir Oliver Garnett | 1959 |
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Amos Claypool | 1958 |
The Naked and the Dead | Gen. Cummings / General Cummings | 1958 |
The True Story of the Civil War | Narrator | 1957 |
Wagon Train | Montezuma IX | 1957 |
Omar Khayyam | The Shah | 1957 |
Zane Grey Theatre | Malachi West | 1956 |
Playhouse 90 | Father Ricquoi | 1956 |
Armchair Theatre | Sir George Sidney, MP | 1956 |
The Naked Eye | Sprecher / Narrator | 1956 |
The 20th Century-Fox Hour | George Apley | 1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Sam Pine | 1955 |
I Spy | Anton the Spymaster / Host / Anton the Spy Master / Anton, the Spymaster / Narrator / Self - Host | 1955 |
Ford Star Jubilee | Abraham Lincoln | 1955 |
Seven Angry Men | John Brown | 1955 |
East of Eden | Adam Trask | 1955 |
Battle Cry | Maj. Gen. Snipes / Major General Snipes | 1955 |
Prince of Players | Junius Brutus Booth | 1955 |
Producers' Showcase | Stackpoole / The Prime Minister | 1954 |
Climax! | Sir George Sidney / Doc Woodward | 1954 |
Stage Show | Self | 1954 |
Person to Person | Self - Guest | 1953 |
The Desert Song | Sheik Yousseff | 1953 |
General Electric Theater | Lord Hook / Paul von Hindenburg | 1953 |
The American Road | Narrator | 1953 |
Omnibus | Self - Reader (segment "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere") | 1952 |
Carson City | Big Jack Davis | 1952 |
Come Fill the Cup | John Ives | 1951 |
David and Bathsheba | Nathan | 1951 |
Sugarfoot | Jacob Stint | 1951 |
Dallas | Will Marlow | 1950 |
Showtime, U.S.A. | Self | 1950 |
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | Abraham Lincoln | 1950 |
Lux Video Theatre | Abe Lincoln | 1950 |
TV Club | Self | 1950 |
The Arthur Murray Party | Self | 1950 |
Barricade | Boss Kruger | 1950 |
Chain Lightning | Leland Willis | 1950 |
What's My Line? | Himself - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
Robert Montgomery Presents | Judge Benton / Dr. Henry Craig / Dr. Clark Evans | 1950 |
The Ken Murray Show | Self - Guest | 1950 |
Roseanna McCoy | Old Randall McCoy | 1949 |
The Fountainhead | Gail Wynand | 1949 |
The Fred Waring Show | Self | 1949 |
The Lamb's Gambol | Self | 1949 |
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | Himself / Abraham Lincoln in skit | 1948 |
The Ford Theatre Hour | Mr. Radfern / Clinton Jones | 1948 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self / Prospero | 1948 |
The Milton Berle Show | Self - Actor | 1948 |
Mourning Becomes Electra | Ezra Mannon | 1947 |
Possessed | Dean Graham | 1947 |
Kraft Theatre | Paul Hardwick | 1947 |
Stairway to Heaven | Abraham Farlan | 1946 |
God Is My Co-Pilot | Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault | 1945 |
Hotel Berlin | Arnim von Dahnwitz | 1945 |
The Woman in the Window | District Attorney Frank Lalor / Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor | 1944 |
Arsenic and Old Lace | Jonathan Brewster | 1944 |
A Canterbury Tale | Narrator (US version) | 1944 |
Action in the North Atlantic | Capt. Steve Jarvis | 1943 |
Desperate Journey | Major Otto Baumeister / Otto Baumeister | 1942 |
Reap the Wild Wind | King Cutler | 1942 |
Breakdowns of 1942 | Self | 1942 |
Dangerously They Live | Dr. Ingersoll | 1941 |
49th Parallel | Andy Brock | 1941 |
Santa Fe Trail | John Brown | 1940 |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abe Lincoln | 1940 |
The Movies March On | Self | 1939 |
Footsteps in the Sand | Peter Charrington | 1939 |
Land of Liberty | Abraham Lincoln (edited from 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois') | 1939 |
The Drum | Prince Ghul | 1938 |
The Hurricane | DeLaage / Gov. Eugene De Laage | 1937 |
The Prisoner of Zenda | Black Michael | 1937 |
Under the Red Robe | Cardinal Richelieu | 1937 |
Fire Over England | King Philip II of Spain / King Philip of Spain | 1937 |
Things to Come | Oswald Cabal / John Cabal | 1936 |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Chauvelin | 1935 |
The Face at the Window | Paul le Gros | 1933 |
The Old Dark House | Philip Waverton | 1932 |
The Speckled Band | Sherlock Holmes | 1931 |
The Crooked Billet | Undetermined Role | 1929 |
High Treason | Member of Federated States Council | 1929 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1941 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |