# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raymond-massey
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:39:53.779Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raymond-massey"
name: "Raymond Massey"
slug: "raymond-massey"
description: "Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian and American actor. Known for his commanding stage-trained voice, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), a role he later reprised on television and in the film How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie on the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–66), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)."
tagline: "Canadian American actor (1896–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Raymond_Massey_1961_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1896-08-30"
deathDate: "1983-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6274462576022161
  historical:           22.90203066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557339/"
    handle:    "nm0557339"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump