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Acting

Raymond Massey

Career: Active from 1931 to 1973, busiest in 1937 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 42
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Arsenic and Old Lace
83/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Academy Awards · Actor in a Leading Role
1941 · Nominated · 13th Academy Awards
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 51 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Raymond Massey Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.2, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Cringe Humor
1.0, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.6, average 2.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 8
Political Intrigue 6
Historical Adventure 4
Social Commentary 3
Classic Cinema 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Forbidden Love 3
Claustrophobic Atmosphere 2
Romantic Drama 2
Action & Adventure 2
World War II 2
Military 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

80

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1970s

5 titles · average score 69

My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

as Matthew Cunningham

The President's Plane Is Missing

53

as Secretary of State Freeman Sharkey

All My Darling Daughters

as Matthew Cunningham

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

as Abraham Lincoln

Night Gallery

85

TV show · as Colonel Archie Dittman (segment "Clean Kills and Other Trophies") / Dr. Glendon

1960s

10 titles · average score 55

Mackenna's Gold

40

as The Preacher

Saint Joan

as The Inquisitor

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

38

TV show · as B. Elzie Bubb

as Narrator

How the West Was Won

62

as Abraham Lincoln

Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey

as Narrator

Dr. Kildare

63

TV show · as Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie

The Fiercest Heart

as Willem Prisloom

The Great Impostor

58

as Abbott Donner

Insight

70

TV show

1950s

32 titles · average score 64

The Naked and the Dead

70

as General Cummings

Mayerling

as The Prime Minister

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Sir George Sidney, MP

East of Eden

78

as Adam Trask

Battle Cry

58

as Major General Snipes

Seven Angry Men

62

as John Brown

Carson City

58

as Big Jack Davis

Sugarfoot

57

as Jacob Stint

Come Fill the Cup

69

as John Ives

David and Bathsheba

57

as Nathan

Chain Lightning

52

as Leland Willis

Dallas

60

as Will Marlow

1940s

20 titles · average score 69

The Fountainhead

75

as Gail Wynand

Possessed

77

as Dean Graham

Mourning Becomes Electra

61

as Ezra Mannon

God Is My Co-Pilot

62

as Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault

Hotel Berlin

66

as Arnim von Dahnwitz

The Woman in the Window

79

as Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor

Arsenic and Old Lace

83

as Jonathan Brewster

Action in the North Atlantic

69

as Capt. Steve Jarvis

49th Parallel

80

as Andy Brock

Dangerously They Live

58

as Dr. Ingersoll

Santa Fe Trail

56

as John Brown

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

78

as Abe Lincoln

1930s

12 titles · average score 68

The Drum

71

as Prince Ghul

Black Limelight

as Peter Charrington

The Hurricane

68

as DeLaage

Fire Over England

58

as King Philip II of Spain

Under the Red Robe

63

as Cardinal Richelieu

The Prisoner of Zenda

83

as Black Michael

Dreaming Lips

as Miguel del Vayo

Things to Come

76

as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal

The Scarlet Pimpernel

70

as Chauvelin

The Old Dark House

83

as Philip Waverton

The Face at the Window

as Paul le Gros

The Speckled Band

42

as Sherlock Holmes

1920s

1 title · average score 60

High Treason

60

as (uncredited)