Raymond Massey
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Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor best known for his commanding, stage-trained voice.
Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in Illinois (1940).
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In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), he is most often seen in his role as the malevolent Jonathan Brewster, who looks like Boris Karloff, and he vehemently criticizes anyone who mentions the similarity.
Early life
Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, and the son of Anna (née Vincent), an American-born girl, and Chester Daniel Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Harris Tractor Company. He was the grandson of businessman Hart Massey and great-grandson of founder Daniel Massey. His line of the Massey family immigrated to Canada from New England a few years before the 1812 war, with their ancestors moving from England to Massachusetts colony in the 1630s. He attended Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario, briefly before transferring to Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, and taking several courses at the University of Toronto, where he was an active member of Kappa Alpha Society.
Personal life
Massey was married three times.
Henry Allen's estrangement and divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon's and Garson Kanin's script for Adam's Rib (1949), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, but Massey married William Dwight Whitney, the opposition lawyer.
Vincent Massey, Massey's older brother, was Canada's first Canadian-born governor general. Massey also dabbled in politics, appearing in a television commercial in 1964 in favor of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Massey condemned US President Lyndon B. Johnson for a "no-win" policy in the Vietnam War, meaning that Goldwater will pursue an aggressive agenda and win the war quickly.
Acting career
In 1922, Eugene O'Neill's In the Zone, he appeared on the London stage for the first time. He appeared in "several dozen plays and directed many others" in England over the next decade, according to his obituary in The New York Times. The Washington Post praised him for his appearances in over 80 plays, including Pygmalion with Gertrude Lawrence; Ethan Frome with Ruth Gordon; and George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma and Candidate with Katharine Cornell. He supervised The Silver Tassie's London premiere in 1929. In his debut on Broadway in an unorthodox 1931 staging of Hamlet, he received poor reviews.
High Treason (1928) was the first film he was in. In 1931, he appeared in The Speckled Band, the first sound film adaptation of the tale. He appeared in Things to Come, a film version by H.G. in 1934, he appeared as the villain in The Scarlet Pimpernel, and in 1936, he appeared in Things to Come. The Shape of Things to Come (1933) is a speculative novel by Wells. Massey appeared in Fritz Lang's classic film noir The Woman in the Window, which starred Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett in 1944. In the 1946 film In the United States film Stairway to Heaven, Abraham Farlan played the American Revolutionary War character, who regretted the British for making him a casualty of the war.
Massey, despite being Canadian, became well-known for portraying archetypal American historical figures. In two films: Santa Fe Trail (1940) and then in the low-budget Seven Angry Men (1955). Brown's character in the Santa Fe Trail is a wild-eyed lunatic, but in the more sympathetic Seven Angry Men, he is a well-intentioned but misguided character. Despite reservations about Lincoln's being portrayed by a Canadian, Massey scored a big success on Broadway in Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He reprised his role in the 1940 film version, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Lincoln was portrayed again in The Day Lincoln Was Shot on Ford Star Jubilee (1956), a silent appearance in How the West Was Won (1962), and two television adaptations of Abe Lincoln on Illinois broadcast in 1950 and 1951. He once jokingly that he was "the only actor ever typecast as president." Massey's preparations for the job were so extensive and arduous that one individual said he would not be content with his Lincoln impersonation until someone assassinated him. Massey, in addition to narrating alongside Tyrone Power and Judith Anderson, took on the roles of both John Brown and Lincoln on stage in a dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Benét's Body (1953).
In the 49th Parallel (1941), Massey appeared on television only once.
During WWII, he joined Katharine Cornell and other key players in a revival of Shaw's Candida to benefit the Army Emergency Fund and the Navy Relief Society.
In the film version of Arsenic and Old Lace, Massey portrayed Jonathan Brewster. Boris Karloff's original design had been created for the stage version, as well as a running gag in the play and film was Karloff's resemblance to Karloff. Despite the fact that the film was released in 1944, it was shot in 1941, at a time when Karloff was still devoted to the Broadway show and could not be reimbursed for the shoot (unlike his costars Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, and John Alexander). Massey and Karloff had appeared together in James Whale's suspense film The Old Dark House (1932).
After Massey became an American citizen, he resumed to work in Hollywood. Joan Crawford's husband appeared in Possessed (1947) and Gail Wynand, a doomed publishing company, along with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper, in The Fountainhead (1949). Adam Trask, father of Cal, was played by James Dean in 1955, and Aron was played by Richard Davalos.
Massey became well known on television in the 1950s and 1960s. In the episode "Trunk Full of Dreams" of the NBC series Riverboat in 1960, Sir Oliver Garnett was cast in 1960 as Sir Oliver Garnett.
Massey is remembered as Dr. Gillespie in the NBC series Dr. Kildare, 1961-1966, with Richard Chamberlain as the title actor. In The Queen's Guards (1961), Massey and his son Daniel were portrayed as father and son.
