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Hollywood Walk of Fame. 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 television and in How the West Was Won (1962).
Jul 31, 1983 · Raymond Massey, who starred in movies as Abraham Lincoln and on television as Dr. Gillespie in the ''Dr. Kildare'' series, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, relatives said today.
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Played Abraham Lincoln a total of five times--twice on TV, twice in the movies, as well as in the stage play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois". He portrayed Lincoln on television in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1950) and The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1956), opposite Lillian Gish as Mary Todd Lincoln, and in the films Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), and How the West Was Won (1962).
- August 30, 1896
- July 29, 1983
Jul 31, 1983 · July 30, 1983 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Raymond Massey, 86, the courtly and eloquent Canadian-born actor who was Abraham Lincoln to one generation and television's Dr. Gillespie ...
Dr. Kildare. Raymond Massey, who also played Dr. Gillespie in the popular Dr. Kildare series in the early ’60s, died of pneumonia on July 29, 1983, in Los Angeles – nearly one month before his 87th birthday (Aug. 30). Curiously, one of his fellow The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) players, David Niven, died that same day.
- Andre Soares
Actor Raymond Massey portrayed Abraham Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" first as a Broadway play in 1938-39, followed by a 1940 film. The story which traces Lincoln's early life through the 1860 election was written by noted playwright Robert Sherwood, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. In late 1943, Massey toured the Logan County Courthouse where this photograph was taken.
Mar 27, 1988 · March 26, 1988 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Gore Vidal was having lunch at the Willard Hotel, Abraham Lincoln's. first stop and hideout after he slipped into town to assume the. presidency. Vidal looked out ...
