Raymond Massey
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as Jonathan Brewster Arsenic and Old Lace 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
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Jonathan Brewster
East of Eden
as Adam Trask
How the West Was Won
as Abraham Lincoln
A Matter of Life and Death
as Abraham Farlan
The Woman in the Window
as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
The Old Dark House
as Philip Waverton
Things to Come
as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Mackenna's Gold
as The Preacher
The Fountainhead
as Gail Wynand
49th Parallel
as Andy Brock
Possessed
as Dean Graham
David and Bathsheba
as Nathan
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Chauvelin
Santa Fe Trail
as John Brown
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Black Michael
Reap the Wild Wind
as King Cutler
Action in the North Atlantic
as Capt. Steve Jarvis
The Hurricane
as DeLaage
Fire Over England
as King Philip II of Spain
The Naked and the Dead
as General Cummings