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Raymond Massey
Age: 86 (passed away Jul. 29th, 1983)
Height: 6' 1"
Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969
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NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Educated at Toronto University & Balliol College, Oxford, he joined the Canadian Field Artillery in World War I, served in France & was wounded. His first appearance was in a stage production in Siberia, during its occupation by American Forces in 1918. Raymond returned to Canada & the farm implement business after the war, but footlights proved a greater allure than ploughshares. He appeared at the Everyman Theatre, London in "In the Zone" in 1922 and from then his acting career never looked back. As adept in front of arc lights as the footlights, he was signed up for a 5 year contract by Alexander Korda. Major Massey was invalided from the Canadian Army in 1943. Raymond is devoted to his American wife Dorothy, to whom he refers all queries and problems. He has an ardent radio following in the States and has now become an American citizen. This is natural as his forebears were American for generations. A bad traveller, Raymond hates the sea and aeroplanes. A good sportsman, he excels at golf and fishing, A scholar, he loves good literature. A modest man, he regards himself as supremely uninteresting.
TRIVIA:
- Was a two-time Wound Badge winner, having been wounded in both world wars.
- He is buried in the Ludington family plot in Beaverdale Cemetary, in the suburb of Hampden area, which is in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Played 'Abraham Lincoln (I)' (qv) four times on TV and in the movies as well as in the stage play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois.".
- Massey's divorce from his ex-wife 'Adrienne Allen' (qv) was the inspiration for the 1949 film _Adam's Rib (1949)_ (qv). Each was represented by one half of a famous husband-and-wife team of divorce lawyers, 'Dorothy Whitney (I)' (qv) and her husband William Dwight Whitney. After the trial was over, the Whitneys divorced. The ex-Mrs. Whitney married Massey, and the ex-Mrs. Massey married the ex-Mrs. Whitney's ex-husband.
- Massey said that the British thought he was American and the Americans thought that he was British. He was actually Canadian. But his mother and paternal grandmother were both Americans and his branch of the Massey family migrated from England to Canada via the United States.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 554-555. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Spoke the lines given to 'Abraham Lincoln (I)' (qv) in the staged dramatic reading of 'Stephen Vincent Benet' (qv)'s "John Brown's Body", in which he also spoke John Brown's lines.
- Father of 'Anna Massey' (qv), 'Daniel Massey (I)' (qv) and Geoffrey Massey. Grandfather of the producer 'Raymond Massey (II)' (qv) and Alice Massey.
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