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Raymond Massey (1896-1983) was an Oscar®-nominated Canadian actor. Massey earned an Academy Award® nomination for his role in the film 1940’s Abe Lincoln in Illinois. His IMDb page shows 87 acting credits from 1929 to 1973. This page will rank Raymond Massey movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition. Some of his movies that do not appear to have been in North American theaters were not included.
Raymond Massey Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1962 | How the West Was Won (1962) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 1955 | East of Eden (1955) | |
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| 1943 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1943) | |
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| 1944 | The Woman in the Window (1944) | |
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| 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) | |
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| 1941 | 49th Parallel (1941) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 1942 | Desperate Journey (1942) | |
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| 1943 | Action in the North Atlantic (1943) | |
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| 1947 | Possessed (1947) | |
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| 1937 | The Hurricane (1937) | |
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| 1945 | God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) | |
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| 1946 | Stairway To Heaven / A Matter of Life And Death (1946) | |
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| 1955 | Battle Cry (1955) | |
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| 1949 | The Fountainhead (1949) | |
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| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail (1940) | |
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| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind (1942) | |
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| 1950 | Dallas (1950) | |
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| 1951 | David and Bathsheba (1951) | |
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| 1961 | The Great Imposter (1961) |  |
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| 1945 | Hotel Berlin (1945) | |
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| 1932 | The Old Dark House (1932) | |
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| 1958 | The Naked and the Dead (1958) | |
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| 1949 | Roseanna McCoy (1949) | |
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| 1934 | The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) | |
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| 1940 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) AA Best Actor Nom |
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| 1950 | Chain Lightning (1950) | |
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| 1951 | Sugarfoot (1951) |  |
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| 1936 | Things To Come (1936) | |
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| 1941 | Dangerously They Live (1941) | |
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| 1951 | Come Fill the Cup (1951) | |
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| 1937 | Fire Over England (1937) | |
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| 1952 | Carson City (1952) | |
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| 1953 | The Desert Song (1953) |  |
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| 1955 | Prince of Players (1955) | |
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| 1957 | Omar Khayyam (1957) | |
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| 1969 | MacKenna's Gold (1969) | |
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| 1961 | The Fiercest Heart (1961) | |
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| 1955 | Seven Angry Men (1955) | |
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| 1950 | Barricade (1950) |  |
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| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) |  |
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| 1961 | The Queen's Guards (1961) | |
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| 1931 | The Speckled Band (1931) | |
Raymond Massey Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Raymond Massey movies by co-stars of his movies.
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- Sort Raymond Massey movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Raymond Massey movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Raymond Massey movie won.
- Sort Raymond Massey movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | How the West Was Won (1962) AA Best Picture Nom |
James Stewart & Debbie Reynolds |
36.10 | 518.8 | 1,237.40 | 2 | 76 | 08 / 03 | 99.0 | |
| 2 | East of Eden (1955) | James Dean | 14.30 | 296.2 | 337.70 | 16 | 84 | 04 / 01 | 98.7 | |
| 3 | Arsenic and Old Lace (1943) | Cary Grant & Priscilla Lane |
8.10 | 291.2 | 491.20 | 17 | 87 | 00 / 00 | 98.6 | |
| 5 | The Woman in the Window (1944) | Edward G. Robinson & Joan Bennett |
6.50 | 218.4 | 361.30 | 36 | 85 | 01 / 00 | 98.4 | |
| 4 | The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) | David Niven & Ronald Colman |
5.60 | 232.2 | 232.20 | 14 | 82 | 02 / 00 | 98.0 | |
| 6 | 49th Parallel (1941) AA Best Picture Nom |
Laurence Olivier & Leslie Howard |
3.90 | 149.0 | 149.00 | 57 | 78 | 03 / 01 | 95.6 | |
| 7 | Desperate Journey (1942) | Errol Flynn & Ronald Reagan |
5.70 | 213.5 | 297.60 | 28 | 69 | 01 / 00 | 95.0 | |
| 8 | Action in the North Atlantic (1943) | Humphrey Bogart & Alan Hale |
6.10 | 220.1 | 355.20 | 42 | 66 | 01 / 00 | 94.4 | |
| 11 | Possessed (1947) | Joan Crawford & Van Heflin |
5.40 | 156.5 | 156.50 | 63 | 78 | 01 / 00 | 93.9 | |
| 10 | The Hurricane (1937) | Dorothy Lamour & Directed by John Ford |
4.40 | 182.4 | 182.40 | 30 | 69 | 01 / 00 | 93.7 | |
| 9 | God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) | Dennis Morgan | 9.40 | 297.1 | 388.20 | 20 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 93.2 | |
| 13 | Stairway To Heaven / A Matter of Life And Death (1946) | David Niven | 4.10 | 124.9 | 124.90 | 84 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 93.1 | |
| 13 | Battle Cry (1955) | Van Heflin & Aldo Ray |
23.10 | 479.8 | 544.90 | 2 | 59 | 01 / 00 | 92.4 | |
| 16 | The Fountainhead (1949) | Gary Cooper & Patricia Neal |
5.80 | 146.2 | 146.20 | 39 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 91.9 | |
| 17 | Santa Fe Trail (1940) | Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland |
5.00 | 192.3 | 278.60 | 16 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 91.5 | |
| 15 | Reap the Wild Wind (1942) | Ray Milland & John Wayne |
11.40 | 424.8 | 424.80 | 6 | 52 | 03 / 01 | 91.1 | |
| 18 | Dallas (1950) | Gary Cooper | 7.90 | 177.4 | 288.10 | 14 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 91.0 | |
| 18 | David and Bathsheba (1951) | Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward |
13.50 | 290.8 | 290.80 | 5 | 50 | 05 / 00 | 90.5 | |
| 19 | The Great Imposter (1961) | Tony Curtis & Karl Malden |
8.60 | 124.9 | 124.90 | 24 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 20 | Hotel Berlin (1945) | Peter Lorre | 5.00 | 157.6 | 250.10 | 72 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 87.6 | |
| 21 | The Old Dark House (1932) | Boris Karloff & Charles Laughton |
1.80 | 87.0 | 87.00 | 49 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 84.8 | |
| 22 | The Naked and the Dead (1958) | Aldo Ray & Cliff Robertson |
6.60 | 118.3 | 118.30 | 37 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 84.7 | |
| 24 | Roseanna McCoy (1949) | Charles Bickford & Farley Granger |
5.30 | 132.3 | 168.90 | 54 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 82.4 | |
| 23 | The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) | Leslie Howard & Merle Oberon |
1.50 | 69.8 | 69.80 | 76 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 82.0 | |
| 25 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) AA Best Actor Nom |
Gene Lockhart | 1.70 | 66.1 | 66.10 | 120 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 80.8 | |
| 27 | Chain Lightning (1950) | Humphrey Bogart | 4.80 | 106.8 | 163.90 | 61 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 80.1 | |
| 28 | Sugarfoot (1951) | Randolph Scott | 4.60 | 98.6 | 98.60 | 72 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 79.2 | |
| 26 | Things To Come (1936) | Ralph Richardson | 0.90 | 38.8 | 38.80 | 154 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 78.8 | |
| 29 | Dangerously They Live (1941) | John Garfield | 2.10 | 79.6 | 112.00 | 113 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 77.5 | |
| 30 | Come Fill the Cup (1951) | James Cagney & Gig Young |
5.10 | 109.8 | 157.00 | 58 | 53 | 01 / 00 | 76.7 | |
| 31 | Fire Over England (1937) | Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier |
2.00 | 82.9 | 82.90 | 120 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 73.7 | |
| 33 | Carson City (1952) | Randolph Scott | 4.70 | 92.6 | 92.60 | 66 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 70.4 | |
| 32 | The Desert Song (1953) | Kathryn Grayson & Gordon MacRae |
4.30 | 76.5 | 123.60 | 81 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 69.6 | |
| 34 | Prince of Players (1955) | Richard Burton & Maggie McNamara |
1.70 | 36.3 | 36.30 | 147 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 66.8 | |
| 35 | Omar Khayyam (1957) | Debra Paget & Directed by William Dieterle |
3.40 | 66.0 | 66.00 | 73 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 66.5 | |
| 36 | MacKenna's Gold (1969) | Gregory Peck & Edward G. Robinson |
8.90 | 67.2 | 67.20 | 31 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 64.5 | |
| 37 | The Fiercest Heart (1961) | Stuart Whitman | 1.50 | 22.5 | 22.50 | 104 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 56.1 | |
| 38 | Seven Angry Men (1955) | Jeffrey Hunter | 0.40 | 7.4 | 7.40 | 195 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 51.0 | |
| 39 | Barricade (1950) | Dane Clark | 0.80 | 18.9 | 18.90 | 193 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 44.4 | |
| 40 | Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) | Rosalind Russell & Michael Redgrave |
0.50 | 14.6 | 34.30 | 173 | 54 | 02 / 00 | 29.5 | |
| 41 | The Queen's Guards (1961) | Daniel Massey | 0.40 | 6.3 | 6.30 | 133 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 23.8 | |
| 42 | The Speckled Band (1931) | Sherlock Holmes | 0.20 | 7.7 | 7.70 | 207 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 20.5 |
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I have seen 25 Raymond Massey movies, including 15 of the top 16.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is How the Wet Was Won.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Reap the Wild Wind.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is is Mourning Becomes Electra.
Favourite Raymond Massey Movies:
How the West Was Won
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Woman in the Window
49th Parallel
Desperate Journey
Action in the North Atlantic
Possessed
A Matter of Life and Death
The Hurricane
David and Bathsheba
Hotel Berlin
The Old Dark House
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Fire Over England
The Desert Song
MacKenna’s Gold
Other Raymond Massey Movies I Have Seen:
East of Eden
God is My Co-Pilot
Battle Cry
The Fountainhead
Santa Fe Trail
The Naked and the Dead
Chain Lightening
Mourning Becomes Electra
Raymond was a great character actor who was terrific in authority-figure roles such as Sherlock Holmes***; the legendary ‘Uncle Abe’; and even the sophisticated leader of a gang of stagecoach robbers in Randy Scott’s 1952 Carson City. However, his face was too austere ever to win over mass audiences as a major star.
***A great coincidence is that Raymond’s son in law was ultimately Jeremy Brett [1933-1965] who married Raymond’s daughter English actress Anna Massey [1937-2011].
Jeremy’s best-known big screen role is probably Freddy Eynsford-Hill in 1964’s My Fair Lady who sang the song On the Street Where You Live. However on TV over half a century after Raymond played Sherlock in 1931’s The Speckled Band Jeremy was highly-praised for his own performance as Holmes in the 1984/85 series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and its follow-ups.
IN the 2nd para graph of my earlier post Brett’s life span should of course have been recorded as 1933-1995. Apologies – but oh for a timely correction button!
I have seen 39 of the Raymond Massey films listed above. The only ones I haven’t seen are, The Fiercest Heart, The Queen’s Guards and The Speckled Band.
Raymond Massey was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000; these are the actors on the 2020 list he appeared with.
57 HARRY DEAN STANTON How the West Was Won (1962)
58 ELI WALLACH How the West Was Won (1962)
58 ELI WALLACH Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
66 OMAR SHARIFF Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
68 JOHN CARRADINE The Hurricane (1937)
81 ROBERT MITCHUM Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
90 RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Stairway to Heaven (1946)
98 DAVID NIVEN Stairway to Heaven (1946)
98 DAVID NIVEN The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
108 JAMES MASON Fire Over England (1937)
126 HENRY FONDA How the West Was Won (1962)
193 KIRK DOUGLAS Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
262 KEENAN WYNN Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
268 BURGESS MEREDITH Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
290 GREGORY PECK David and Bathsheba (1951)
290 GREGORY PECK How the West Was Won (1962)
290 GREGORY PECK Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
294 RICHARD BURTON Prince of Players (1955)
321 LAURENCE OLIVIER Fire Over England (1937)
344 JOHN WAYNE How the West Was Won (1962)
344 JOHN WAYNE Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
352 TELLY SAVALAS Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
439 CLIFF ROBERTSON The Naked and the Dead (1958)
462 STUART WHITMAN The Fiercest Heart (1961)
473 TONY CURTIS The Great Impostor (1961)
494 LOIS MAXWELL Stairway to Heaven (1946)
502 RICHARD WIDMARK How the West Was Won (1962)
509 AKIM TAMIROFF Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
512 RAY MILLAND Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
527 LOIS SMITH East of Eden (1955)
569 TERRY-THOMAS Things to Come (1936)
643 JAMES WHITMORE Battle Cry (1955)
749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Come Fill the Cup (1951)
751 RALPH RICHARDSON Things to Come (1936)
756 DEBBIE REYNOLDS How the West Was Won (1962)
760 LEE VAN CLEEF How the West Was Won (1962)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON The Woman in the Window (1944)
797 ANTHONY QUAYLE Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
840 ROBERT STEPHENS The Queen’s Guards (1961)
851 ALDO RAY Battle Cry (1955)
851 ALDO RAY The Naked and the Dead (1958)
891 CARROLL BAKER How the West Was Won (1962)
895 JOHN CRAWFORD Chain Lightning (1950)
974 EDMOND O’BRIEN The Great Impostor (1961)
975 RICHARD JAECKEL The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Ray appeared with 32 Oscar winners.
BURL IVES East of Eden (1955)
CHARLES LAUGHTON The Old Dark House (1932)
CLIFF ROBERTSON The Naked and the Dead (1958)
DAVID NIVEN Stairway to Heaven (1946)
DAVID NIVEN The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
DOROTHY MALONE Battle Cry (1955)
EDMOND O’BRIEN The Great Impostor (1961)
GARY COOPER Dallas (1950)
GARY COOPER The Fountainhead (1949)
GIG YOUNG Come Fill the Cup (1951)
GREGORY PECK David and Bathsheba (1951)
GREGORY PECK How the West Was Won (1962)
GREGORY PECK Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
HENRY FONDA How the West Was Won (1962)
HUMPHREY BOGART Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
HUMPHREY BOGART Chain Lightning (1950)
JAMES CAGNEY Come Fill the Cup (1951)
JAMES STEWART How the West Was Won (1962)
JO VAN FLEET EAST OF EDEN (1955)
JOAN CRAWFORD Possessed (1947)
JOHN WAYNE How the West Was Won (1962)
JOHN WAYNE Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
KARL MALDEN How the West Was Won (1962)
KARL MALDEN The Great Impostor (1961)
KIM HUNTER Stairway to Heaven (1946)
LAURENCE OLIVIER Fire Over England (1937)
MARY ASTOR The Hurricane (1937)
MARY ASTOR The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
MELVYN DOUGLAS The Old Dark House (1932)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Santa Fe Trail (1940)
PATRICIA NEAL The Fountainhead (1949)
RAY MILLAND Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
RONALD COLMAN The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
RUTH GORDON ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (1940)
RUTH GORDON ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC (1943)
SPENCER TRACY How the West Was Won (1962)
SUSAN HAYWARD David and Bathsheba (1951)
THOMAS MITCHELL THE HURRICANE (1937)
VAN HEFLIN Battle Cry (1955)
VAN HEFLIN Possessed (1947)
VAN HEFLIN Santa Fe Trail (1940)
VIVIEN LEIGH Fire Over England (1937)
WALTER BRENNAN How the West Was Won (1962)
Hey Dan
1. Thanks as always for these trivia lists.
2. Tally count….Wow 39…or 92.8% of his movies….pretty good….granted there were a handful that I struck out when researching box office numbers…so the were not included.
3. His take on Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band is almost a forgotten movie.
4. Looking at this career…it looks like he tried to pick high prestige type movies…..which is probably why his movie total is not that high.
5. I mean Michael Caine has almost appeared in as many movies as Massey after turning 70!
6. Looking at the Oracle list…it is actually pretty short…..but with Gregory Peck getting the Oracle honor of being the most frequent co-star….it is a good list…especialy with people like Bob and Flora…both huge Peck fans.
7. His Oscar list is much more impressive…with an excellent % of Oscar winners to movies.
As always good stuff.
Great UMR Page
Thank you Mike.