Personal Info
Birth date
1896-08-30 (128 Years)
Day of death
1983-07-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Also known as
Raymond Hart Massey
Raymond Massey
Biography
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 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).
Filmography
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
Overview:
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Overview:
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Dr. Kildare
5.5
Overview:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.Adventures in Paradise
5.7
Overview:
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.Ford Theatre
NYR
Overview:
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour.Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
5.8
Overview:
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.Climax!
3.273
Overview:
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.Lux Video Theatre
6.333
Overview:
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.Riverboat
6.2
Overview:
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.748
Overview:
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.The Ford Theatre Hour
NYR
Overview:
An anthology series based in New York City which attracted a high caliber group of actors, often Broadway stars. Stories were both drama and comedies, some original but others adaptions of films and plays.The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
Overview:
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.Night Gallery
7.797
Overview:
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.Insight
6
Overview:
Insight is an American religious-themed weekly anthology series that aired in syndication from October 1960 to 1983. Produced by Paulist Productions in Los Angeles, the series presented half-hour dramas illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love. Insight was an anthology series, using an eclectic set of storytelling forms including comedy, melodrama, and fantasy to explore moral dilemmas. The series was created by Roman Catholic priest Ellwood E. "Bud" Kieser, the founder of Paulist Productions. As a member of an evangelistic order of Catholic priests called the Paulist Fathers, he worked in the entertainment community in Hollywood as a priest-producer and occasional host, using television as a vehicle of spiritual enrichment. Many of the episodes of the series were videotaped at CBS Television City and then Metromedia Square.What's My Line?
6.9
Overview:
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
6.6
Overview:
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, which was rearranged into a slightly different, harder-edged arrangement by Dave Grusin.Lights Out
5.3
Overview:
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.General Electric Theater
6.25
Overview:
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.Arsenic and Old Lace
7.638
Overview:
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!East of Eden
7.6
Overview:
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.Mackenna's Gold
6.6
Overview:
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.How the West Was Won
6.982
Overview:
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.Things to Come
6.495
Overview:
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.The Old Dark House
6.72
Overview:
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.The Fiercest Heart
5
Overview:
Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.Acting
1973My Darling Daughters' Anniversary as Matthew Cunningham
1973The President's Plane Is Missing as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
1972All My Darling Daughters as Matthew Cunningham
1971Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age as Abraham Lincoln
1970Night Gallery (1 Episode) as Dr. Glendon
1969Mackenna's Gold as The Preacher
1967Saint Joan as The Inquisitor
1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1964Choice as Narrator
1962How the West Was Won as Abraham Lincoln
1962The Merv Griffin Show (1 Episode) as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (2 Episodes) as Self
1961The Queen's Guards as Unknown
1961Dr. Kildare (191 Episodes) as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
1961The Fiercest Heart as Willem Prisloom
1960The Great Impostor as Abbott Donner
1960Insight (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Seconds for Survival as Self - Narrator (voice)
1959Adventures in Paradise (1 Episode) as Captain William Brooks
1959Riverboat (1 Episode) as Sir Oliver Garnett
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1 Episode) as Amos Claypool
1958The Naked and the Dead as General Cummings
1957Omar Khayyam as The Shah
1957Mayerling as The Prime Minister
1956The True Story of the Civil War as Narrator
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Malachi West
1956The Naked Eye as Sprecher
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Sam Pine
1955East of Eden as Adam Trask
1955Seven Angry Men as John Brown
1955Battle Cry as Major General Snipes
1955Prince of Players as Junius Brutus Booth
1954Climax! (1, 1 Episode) as Sir George Sidney, Doc Woodward
1953The American Road as Narrator
1953The Desert Song as Sheik Yousseff
1953General Electric Theater (1, 1 Episode) as Lord Hook, Paul von Hindenburg
1952Carson City as Big Jack Davis
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as The Inquisitor
1951Come Fill the Cup as John Ives
1951David and Bathsheba as Nathan
1951Sugarfoot as Jacob Stint
1951The Victor Borge Show (1 Episode) as Self
1950Dallas as Will Marlow
1950Lux Video Theatre (1 Episode) as Abe Lincoln
1950Challenge: Science Against Cancer as Narrated by (voice)
1950Barricade as Boss Kruger
1950Chain Lightning as Leland Willis
1950What's My Line? (1 Episode) as Self - Mystery Guest
1950Robert Montgomery Presents (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Dr. Henry Craig, Dr. Clark Evans, Judge Benton
1949Roseanna McCoy as Old Randall McCoy
1949Lights Out (1 Episode) as Unknown
1949The Fountainhead as Gail Wynand
1948Ford Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1948The Ford Theatre Hour (1 Episode) as Clinton Jones
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1947Mourning Becomes Electra as Ezra Mannon
1947Possessed as Dean Graham
1946A Matter of Life and Death as Abraham Farlan
1945God Is My Co-Pilot as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
1945Hotel Berlin as Arnim von Dahnwitz
1944The Woman in the Window as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
1944Arsenic and Old Lace as Jonathan Brewster
1943Action in the North Atlantic as Capt. Steve Jarvis
1942Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
1942Desperate Journey as Major Otto Baumeister
1942Reap the Wild Wind as King Cutler
1941Dangerously They Live as Dr. Ingersoll
194149th Parallel as Andy Brock
1940Santa Fe Trail as John Brown
1940Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abe Lincoln
1938The Drum as Prince Ghul
1938Black Limelight as Peter Charrington
1937The Hurricane as DeLaage
1937The Prisoner of Zenda as Black Michael
1937Under the Red Robe as Cardinal Richelieu
1937Fire Over England as King Philip II of Spain
1937Dreaming Lips as Miguel del Vayo
1936Things to Come as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
1934The Scarlet Pimpernel as Chauvelin
1932The Old Dark House as Philip Waverton
1932The Face at the Window as Paul le Gros
1931The Speckled Band as Sherlock Holmes
1930The Crooked Billet as Unknown
1929High Treason as Member of Federated States Council