Raymond Massey

Raymond Hart Massey 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). Among his other well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–1966), 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).

30 August 1896

Born on the same birth day (30 August): Allan Rock • Bebe Rexha • Don Boudria • Ernests Gulbis • Frances Cairncross • Guy de Lussigny • J. Alden Weir • Jean-Claude Killy • Liam Cooper • Michael Wong (singer) • Murray Gleeson • Paulo Sousa • Pavel Nedvěd • Regina Resnik

Born in the same month (August 1896): Albert Ball • Catherine Doherty • Erich Hückel • Firaq Gorakhpuri • Félix-Antoine Savard • Ivan Mihailov • Jean Piaget • Kenji Miyazawa • Laurence McKinley Gould • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Oliver W. Larkin • Paul Outerbridge • Ralph Horween