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Raymond Massey
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Actor Born: August 30, 1896 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: July 29, 1983 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:As one of several sons of the owner of Toronto's Massey/Harris Agricultural Implement Company, "Raymond Massey" was expected to distinguish himself in business or politics or both (indeed, one of Raymond's brothers, Vincent Massey, later became Governor General of Canada). But after graduating form Oxford University, Massey defied his family's wishes and became an actor. He made his first stage appearance in a British production of Eugene O'Neill's In the Zone in 1922. By 1930, Massey was firmly established as one of the finest classical actors on the British stage; that same year he came to Broadway to play the title role in Hamlet.
In 1931, Massey starred in his first talking picture, "The Speckled Band", portraying Sherlock Holmes. One year later, he was co-starred with "Charles Laughton", "Melvyn Douglas", "Gloria Stuart" and "Ernst Thesiger" in his first Hollywood film, the classic "The Old... Full Biography
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