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 Brew...
Known For
Complete Filmography
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
as Matthew Cunningham
In this sequel, the daughters' anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to get remarried.
The President's Plane Is Missing
1973
as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchan...
All My Darling Daughters
1972
as Matthew Cunningham
A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
as Abraham Lincoln
An introduction to Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. A world poet-a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare...
Mackenna's Gold
1969
as The Preacher
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 ke...
Saint Joan
1967
as The Inquisitor
A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her ...
Choice
1964
as Narrator
The notorious political campaign film produced for the 1964 United States presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.
How the West Was Won
1962
as Abraham Lincoln
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 ...
The Queen's Guards
1961
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead...
The Fiercest Heart
1961
as Willem Prisloom
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 o...
The Great Impostor
1960
as Abbott Donner
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite succ...
Seconds for Survival
1960
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Cold War film illustrating the defense capacity of America's telephone network, highlighting AT&T's role in the design and construction of the nation'...
The Naked and the Dead
1958
as General Cummings
Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.
Omar Khayyam
1957
as The Shah
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they...
Mayerling
1957
as The Prime Minister
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desp...
The True Story of the Civil War
1956
as Narrator
Documentary short about the American Civil War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
The Naked Eye
1956
as Sprecher
The Naked Eye is a 1956 American documentary film about the history of photography directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen. It was nominated for an Academy Aw...
East of Eden
1955
as Adam Trask
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 fath...
Seven Angry Men
1955
as John Brown
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
Battle Cry
1955
as Major General Snipes
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits fr...
Prince of Players
1955
as Junius Brutus Booth
Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
The American Road
1953
as Narrator
The history of American transportation from the horse and buggys of yesteryear to the progression of the motor car.
The Desert Song
1953
as Sheik Yousseff
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The R...
Carson City
1952
as Big Jack Davis
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have conne...
Come Fill the Cup
1951
as John Ives
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back a...
David and Bathsheba
1951
as Nathan
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
Sugarfoot
1951
as Jacob Stint
The lawless west had never met a gun-throwing gent like...
Dallas
1950
as Will Marlow
After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage murder of his family. Discovering his enemy is now an...
Challenge: Science Against Cancer
1950
as Narrated by (voice)
Documentary short on cancer.
Barricade
1950
as Boss Kruger
Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.
Chain Lightning
1950
as Leland Willis
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, ...
Roseanna McCoy
1949
as Old Randall McCoy
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance reki...
The Fountainhead
1949
as Gail Wynand
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to ...
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
as Ezra Mannon
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conn...
Possessed
1947
as Dean Graham
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
A Matter of Life and Death
1946
as Abraham Farlan
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But t...
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into Ch...
Hotel Berlin
1945
as Arnim von Dahnwitz
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
The Woman in the Window
1944
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
as Jonathan Brewster
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Desperate Journey
1942
as Major Otto Baumeister
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German...
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
as King Cutler
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Lo...
Dangerously They Live
1941
as Dr. Ingersoll
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
49th Parallel
1941
as Andy Brock
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by com...
Santa Fe Trail
1940
as John Brown
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign...
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
as Abe Lincoln
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...
The Drum
1938
as Prince Ghul
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the ho...
Black Limelight
1938
as Peter Charrington
This gripping, atmospheric crime thriller from Austrian-born director Paul Stein stars Oscar nominee Raymond Massey as a man at the centre of a multip...
The Hurricane
1937
as DeLaage
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community ...
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Black Michael
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...
Under the Red Robe
1937
as Cardinal Richelieu
In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about gro...
Fire Over England
1937
as King Philip II of Spain
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the ti...
Dreaming Lips
1937
as Miguel del Vayo
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Ga...
Things to Come
1936
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space trav...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
as Chauvelin
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an un...
The Old Dark House
1932
as Philip Waverton
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
The Face at the Window
1932
as Paul le Gros
A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
The Speckled Band
1931
as Sherlock Holmes
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
The Crooked Billet
1930
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
High Treason
1929
as Member of Federated States Council
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high...