Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 - July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Hart Massey , the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. Was educated at Appleby College (Middle and High school), the University of Toronto and at Balliol College, Oxford, England.

At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Canadian Army. His first stage appearance was in Siberia, where he entertained the American troops who were on occupation duty. Severely wounded in action in France, he was sent home where he eventually worked in the family business, selling farm implements. However, drawn to the theater, in 1922 he appeared on the London stage. His first movie role was High Treason in 1927, and he played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band in the following year. In 1936 he starred in H. G. Wells' Things to Come.

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.

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.

He rejoined the Canadian Army during World War II, and was wounded and invalided out in 1943. Following the war, he became an American citizen. Massey became well-known on television in the 1950s and 1960s, especially in his role as Doctor Gillespie in the series Doctor Kildare.

He has two children who followed him into acting: Anna Massey and Daniel Massey. His brother was Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.

On July 29, 1983 he died in Los Angeles, California and is buried in New Haven, Connecticut.

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.

See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood