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).

Filmography

• 1973My Darling Daughters' Anniversary — Matthew Cunningham
• 1973The President's Plane Is Missing — Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey
• 1972All My Darling Daughters — Matthew Cunningham
• 1971Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age — Abraham Lincoln
• Night Gallery — Dr. Glendon, Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies")
• 1969Mackenna's Gold — The Preacher
• 1967Saint Joan — The Inquisitor
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. — B. Elzie Bubb
• 1964Choice — Narrator
• 1962How the West Was Won — Abraham Lincoln
• 1962Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey — Narrator
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie
• 1961The Fiercest Heart — Willem Prisloom
• 1961The Queen's Guards
• Insight
• 1960The Great Impostor — Abbott Donner
• Adventures in Paradise — Captain William Brooks
• Riverboat — Sir Oliver Garnett
• 1958The Naked and the Dead — General Cummings
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse — Amos Claypool
• 1957Mayerling — The Prime Minister
• 1957Omar Khayyam — The Shah
• Wagon Train — Montezuma IX
• Armchair Theatre — Sir George Sidney, MP, Writer
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Malachi West
• 1956The Naked Eye — Narrator (voice)
• 1956The True Story of the Civil War — Narrator
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Sam Pine
• 1955Battle Cry — Major General Snipes
• 1955East of Eden — Adam Trask
• 1955Prince of Players — Junius Brutus Booth
• 1955Seven Angry Men — John Brown
• The 20th Century Fox Hour — George Apley
• Climax! — Sir George Sidney, Doc Woodward
• General Electric Theater — Lord Hook, Paul von Hindenburg
• 1953The American Road — Narrator
• 1953The Desert Song — Sheik Yousseff
• 1952Carson City — Big Jack Davis
• 1951Come Fill the Cup — John Ives
• 1951David and Bathsheba — Nathan
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — The Inquisitor
• 1951Sugarfoot — Jacob Stint
• 1950Barricade — Boss Kruger
• 1950Chain Lightning — Leland Willis
• 1950Challenge: Science Against Cancer — Narrated by (voice)
• 1950Dallas — Will Marlow
• Lux Video Theatre — Abe Lincoln
• Robert Montgomery Presents — Dr. Henry Craig, Dr. Clark Evans, Judge Benton
• Lights Out
• 1949Roseanna McCoy — Old Randall McCoy
• 1949The Fountainhead — Gail Wynand
• Ford Theatre
• The Ford Theatre Hour — Clinton Jones
• 1948Years Ago — Clinton Jones
• 1947Mourning Becomes Electra — Ezra Mannon
• 1947Possessed — Dean Graham
• 1946A Matter of Life and Death — Abraham Farlan
• 1945God Is My Co-Pilot — Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault
• 1945Hotel Berlin — Arnim von Dahnwitz
• 1944Arsenic and Old Lace — Jonathan Brewster
• 1944The Woman in the Window — Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
• 1943Action in the North Atlantic — Capt. Steve Jarvis
• 1942Desperate Journey — Major Otto Baumeister
• 1942Reap the Wild Wind — King Cutler
• 194149th Parallel — Andy Brock
• 1941Dangerously They Live — Dr. Ingersoll
• 1940Abe Lincoln in Illinois — Abe Lincoln
• 1940Santa Fe Trail — John Brown
• 1938Black Limelight — Peter Charrington
• 1938The Drum — Prince Ghul
• 1937Dreaming Lips — Miguel del Vayo
• 1937Fire Over England — King Philip II of Spain
• 1937The Hurricane — DeLaage
• 1937The Prisoner of Zenda — Black Michael
• 1937Under the Red Robe — Cardinal Richelieu
• 1936Things to Come — John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
• 1934The Scarlet Pimpernel — Chauvelin
• 1932The Face at the Window — Paul le Gros
• 1932The Old Dark House — Philip Waverton
• 1931The Speckled Band — Sherlock Holmes
• 1930The Crooked Billet
• 1929High Treason — Member of Federated States Council

Appearances as themselves (9)

• Dinah! — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• 1960Seconds for Survival — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Victor Borge Show — Self
• The Bob Hope Show — Self
• What's My Line? — Self - Mystery Guest
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1942Breakdowns of 1942 — Self