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Gene Raymond
Actor, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born August 13, 1908Died May 2, 1998 (89 years)
Gene Raymond, born Raymond Guion, was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot.
His screen debut was in Personal Maid (1931). Another early appearance was in the multi-director If I Had a Million with W. C. Fields and Charles Laughton. With his blond good looks, classic profile, and youthful exuberance — plus a name change to the more pronounceable "Gene Raymond" — he scored in films like the classic Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, and a series of light RKO musicals, mostly with Ann Sothern. He wrote a number of songs, including the popular "Will You?" which he sang to Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town. His wife, Jeanette MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled "Let Me Always Sing".
His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. MacDonald and Raymond made one film together, Smilin' Through, which came out as the U.S. was on the verge of entering World War II.
After service in the United States Army Air Forces Raymond returned to Hollywood. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1949 film Million Dollar Weekend. In later years he appeared in only a few films. His last major film was The Best Man in 1964 with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson.
In the 1950s he mostly worked in television, appearing in Playhouse of Stars, Fireside Theatre, Hollywood Summer Theater and TV Reader's Digest. In the 1970s he appeared on ABC Television Network's Paris 7000 and had guest roles in The Outer Limits, Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Defenders, Mannix, The Name of the Game, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre and U.S. Steel Hour.
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His screen debut was in Personal Maid (1931). Another early appearance was in the multi-director If I Had a Million with W. C. Fields and Charles Laughton. With his blond good looks, classic profile, and youthful exuberance — plus a name change to the more pronounceable "Gene Raymond" — he scored in films like the classic Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, and a series of light RKO musicals, mostly with Ann Sothern. He wrote a number of songs, including the popular "Will You?" which he sang to Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town. His wife, Jeanette MacDonald, sang several of his more classical pieces in her concerts and recorded one entitled "Let Me Always Sing".
His most notable films, mostly as a second lead actor, include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum. MacDonald and Raymond made one film together, Smilin' Through, which came out as the U.S. was on the verge of entering World War II.
After service in the United States Army Air Forces Raymond returned to Hollywood. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1949 film Million Dollar Weekend. In later years he appeared in only a few films. His last major film was The Best Man in 1964 with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson.
In the 1950s he mostly worked in television, appearing in Playhouse of Stars, Fireside Theatre, Hollywood Summer Theater and TV Reader's Digest. In the 1970s he appeared on ABC Television Network's Paris 7000 and had guest roles in The Outer Limits, Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Defenders, Mannix, The Name of the Game, Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre and U.S. Steel Hour.
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Filmography
| 1975 | The Invisible Man (1975) (TV Series) · as Sen. Albert Hanover |
| 1974 | Apple's Way (TV Series) · as Coach Randy Newell |
| 1972 | Emergency! (TV Series) · as J.p. Dumont |
| 1970 | The Interns (TV Series) · as Judge Tidings |
| 1969 | Five Bloody Graves · as The Voice Of Death |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV Series) · as Walter Markle |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Senator Reeland |
| 1968 | Julia (TV Series) · as Dr. Proctor |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as Richmond Greene |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Hondo (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Marcus Weathers |
| 1966 | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Charles Vechten |
| 1965 | Laredo (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Harlan Franciscus |
| 1964 | I'd Rather Be Rich · as Martin Wood |
| 1964 | The Hanged Man · as Whitey Devlin |
| 1964 | My Living Doll (TV Series) · as Walter J. Armbruster |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Col. Allan Morgan |
| 1964 | The Best Man · as Don Cantwell |
| 1963 | Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Arthur Wade |
| 1963 | Channing (TV Series) · as Matt Bellamy |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as Sawyer |
| 1962 | Sam Benedict (TV Series) |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Ben Solomon |
| 1961 | The Defenders (TV Series) · as Arthur Foster |
| 1960 | Insight (TV Series) · as Lord Baltimore |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series) · as Phil |
| 1959 | Johnny Ringo (TV Series) · as Silky Carter |
| 1959 | |
| 1957 | Plunder Road · as Eddie Harris |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Col. Sir Francis Chesney |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater (TV Series) |
| 1955 | Hit the Deck · as Wendell Craig |
| 1955 | TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Grady Lederer |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Big Doc |
| 1953 | Ponds Theater (TV Series) |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Mark Colby |
| 1952 | Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre (TV Series) · as Stanley |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Us Army Major |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as General |
| 1951 | Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series) |
| 1950 | The Bigelow Theatre (TV Series) · as Fred |
| 1950 | The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series) · as Lt. Floyd Hudson |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Luke Drake |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as Harry Becker |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1949 | Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Host |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Charles Sterling |
| 1948 | Million Dollar Weekend · as Nicholas Lawrence |
| 1948 | Sofia · as Steve Roark |
| 1948 | Assigned to Danger · as Dan Sullivan |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Andy Clements |
| 1946 | The Locket · as John Willis |
| 1941 | Smilin' Through · as Kenneth 'ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'jerry' Wayne |
| 1941 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith · as Jeff |
| 1940 | Cross-Country Romance · as Lawrence Smith |
| 1938 | Stolen Heaven · as Carl |
| 1937 | She's Got Everything · as Fuller Partridge |
| 1937 | The Life of the Party · as Barry Saunders |
| 1937 | There Goes My Girl · as Jerry Martin |
| 1936 | That Girl from Paris · as Windy Mclean |
| 1936 | Smartest Girl in Town · as Richard Stuyvesant Smith |
| 1936 | Walking on Air · as Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis De Marsac |
| 1936 | The Bride Walks Out · as Michael Martin |
| 1936 | Love on a Bet · as Michael Maccreigh |
| 1935 | Seven Keys to Baldpate · as William Magee |
| 1935 | Hooray for Love · as Douglas Tyler |
| 1935 | The Woman in Red · as John 'johnny' Wyatt |
| 1934 | Behold My Wife! · as Michael Carter |
| 1934 | Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round · as Jimmy Brett |
| 1934 | Sadie McKee · as Tommy |
| 1934 | Coming Out Party · as Chris Hansen |
| 1933 | Flying Down to Rio · as Roger Bond |
| 1933 | I Am Suzanne! · as Tony Malatini |
| 1933 | The House on 56th Street · as Monte Van Tyle |
| 1933 | Brief Moment · as Rodney Deane |
| 1933 | Ann Carver's Profession · as William Graham |
| 1933 | Ex-Lady · as Don Peterson |
| 1933 | Zoo in Budapest · as Zani |
| 1932 | If I Had a Million · as John Wallace (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Red Dust · as Gary Willis |
| 1932 | The Night of June 13 · as Herbert Morrow |
| 1932 | Forgotten Commandments · as Paul Ossipoff |
| 1931 | Ladies of the Big House · as Standish Mcneil |
| 1931 | Personal Maid · as Dick Gary |