Raymond Massey

See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
. Massey has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 1719 Vine Street and one for television at 6708 Hollywood Blvd. He has been married three times and has five children. On July 29, 1983 he died in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia and is buried in New Haven, Connecticut. The PBS television version in 1992 earned him an Emmy Award. His brother was Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada. In 1990 he played Truman Capote in the one-man stage play, Tru, for which he received a second Tony Award (and his fifth nomination), this time for dramatic performance.

He has two children who followed him into acting: Anna Massey and Daniel Massey. His most recent credit was the 2000 City of Angels, a minor medical drama in which he had a regular part. Massey became well-known on television in the 1950s and 1960s, especially in his role as Doctor Gillespie in the series Doctor Kildare. He had a featured role in the 1993 miniseries, Wild Palms. Following the war, he became an American citizen. Morse has appeared in numerous TV shows, beginning in 1955 with the soap opera The Secret Storm and including mysteries, comedies, and variety shows. He rejoined the Canadian Army during World War II, and was wounded and invalided out in 1943. Morse was in the original Broadway cast of Sugar, a 1972 stage version of Some Like It Hot, for which he was nominated for another Tony.

Despite being Canadian, Massey became famous for his quintessential American roles, as Abraham Lincoln in 1940's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), in 1941's Santa Fe Trail, in which he played abolitionist John Brown, and as Lincoln again in 1962's How the West Was Won. In 1965 he appeared in the black comedy The Loved One, a movie based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh that satirized the funeral business in Los Angeles, in particular the Forest Lawn Cemetery. Early in Massey's career, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), heard Massey perform and was struck by the close similarity of Massey's speaking voice to that of his father. He also starred in the 1968 movie version. G. Wells' Things to Come. Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for which he received a Tony Award in 1961. In 1936 he starred in H. His most famous role was that of J.

His first movie role was High Treason in 1927, and he played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band in the following year. Morse created the role of Barnaby in The Matchmaker on Broadway in 1955 opposite Ruth Gordon, and reprised the role in 1958 in the filmed version, this time opposite Shirley Booth. However, drawn to the theater, in 1922 he appeared on the London stage. He served in the US Navy in the Korean War. Severely wounded in action in France, he was sent home where he eventually worked in the family business, selling farm implements. Morse was born in Newton, Massachusetts. His first stage appearance was in Siberia, where he entertained the American troops who were on occupation duty. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and plays on Broadway, and has also acted in movies and TV shows.

At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Canadian Army. Robert Morse, (born May 18, 1931) is an American actor. He was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto and at Balliol College, Oxford, England. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Hart Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 - July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor.