Gene Raymond, born Raymond Guion, was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot. His screen debut was in Personal Maid (1931). Another early appearance was in the multi-director If I Had a Million with W. C. Fields and Charles Laughton. With his blond good looks, classic profile, and youthful exuberance — plus a name change to the more pronounceable "Gene Raymond" — he scored in films like the classic Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, and a series of light RKO musicals, mostly with Ann Sothern. He wrote a number of songs, including the popular "Will You?" which he sang to Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town. His wife, Jeanette MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled "Let Me Always Sing". His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. MacDonald and Raymond made one film together, Smilin' Through, which came out as the U.S. was on the verge of entering World War II. After service in the United States Army Air Forces Raymond returned to Hollywood. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1949 film Million Dollar Weekend. In later years he appeared in only a few films. His last major film was The Best Man in 1964 with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. In the 1950s he mostly worked in television, appearing in Playhouse of Stars, Fireside Theatre, Hollywood Summer Theater and TV Reader's Digest. In the 1970s he appeared on ABC Television Network's Paris 7000 and had guest roles in The Outer Limits, Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Defenders, Mannix, The Name of the Game, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre and U.S. Steel Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Raymond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• McNaughton's Daughter — Emory Latimer Johns
• The Invisible Man — Sen. Albert Hanover
• Emergency! — J.P. Dumont
• 1969Five Bloody Graves — The Voice of Death
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors — Walter Markle
• The Name of the Game — Senator Reeland
• Hondo
• Ironside — Marcus Weathers, Charles Huff
• Judd, for the Defense
• Mannix — Richmond Greene
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. — Charles Vechten
• Laredo
• The F.B.I. — Harlan Franciscus
• 1964I'd Rather Be Rich — Martin Wood
• 1964The Best Man — Don Cantwell
• 1964The Hanged Man — Whitey Devlin
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Col. Allan Morgan
• Burke's Law — Arthur Wade
• Channing — Matt Bellamy
• The Outer Limits — Sawyer
• Sam Benedict
• The Barbara Stanwyck Show — Phil
• Johnny Ringo — Silky Carter
• 1959Woman on the Run
• The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen — John Niles
• 1957Plunder Road — Eddie Harris
• 1957Where's Charley? — Col. Sir Francis Chesney
• 1956Prima Donna — Writer, Story
• 1955Hit the Deck — Wendell Craig
• Matinee Theater — Edward Dudley
• Screen Director's Playhouse — Writer, Story
• TV Reader's Digest
• Climax! — Grady Lederer
• Kraft Television Theatre
• Letter to Loretta — Mark Colby
• Medallion Theatre
• The Ford Television Theatre — Stanley
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — US Army Major, Mark Alexander
• Tales of Tomorrow
• The Red Skelton Show — General
• Lux Video Theatre — John Aldrid, Luke Drake
• Robert Montgomery Presents
• Fireside Theater — Host
• 1948Assigned to Danger — Dan Sullivan
• 1948Million Dollar Weekend — Nicholas Lawrence, Director, Original Story
• 1948Sofia — Steve Roark
• Studio One — Charles Sterling
• Kraft Television Theatre — Andy Clements
• 1946The Locket — John Willis
• 1941Mr. & Mrs. Smith — Jeff
• 1941Smilin' Through — Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
• 1940Cross-Country Romance — Lawrence Smith
• 1938Stolen Heaven — Carl
• 1937She's Got Everything — Fuller Partridge
• 1937The Life of the Party — Barry Saunders
• 1937There Goes My Girl — Jerry Martin
• 1936Love on a Bet — Michael MacCreigh
• 1936Smartest Girl in Town — Richard Stuyvesant Smith
• 1936That Girl from Paris — Windy McLean
• 1936The Bride Walks Out — Michael Martin
• 1936Walking on Air — Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
• 1935Hooray for Love — Douglas Tyler
• 1935Seven Keys to Baldpate — William Magee
• 1935The Woman in Red — John 'Johnny' Wyatt
• 1935Transient Lady — Carey Marshall
• 1934Behold My Wife! — Michael Carter
• 1934Coming Out Party — Chris Hansen
• 1934Sadie McKee — Tommy
• 1934Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round — Jimmy Brett
• 1933Ann Carver's Profession — Bill
• 1933Brief Moment — Rodney Deane
• 1933Ex-Lady — Don Peterson
• 1933Flying Down to Rio — Roger Bond
• 1933I Am Suzanne! — Tony Malatini
• 1933The House on 56th Street — Monte Van Tyle
• 1933Zoo in Budapest — Zani
• 1932Forgotten Commandments — Paul Ossipoff
• 1932If I Had a Million — John Wallace (uncredited)
• 1932Red Dust — Gary Willis
• 1932The Night of June 13 — Herbert Morrow
• 1931Ladies of the Big House — Standish McNeil
• 1931Personal Maid — Dick Gary

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2003Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)
• 1992Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts — Self
• The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self