Gene Raymond
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 13, 1908
- Died
- May 2, 1998 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Raymond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Filmography
Complicated Women
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
Movie · as Self
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
TV · as Self · 1 ep
McNaughton's Daughter
TV · as Emory Latimer Johns · 3 eps
The Invisible Man
TV · as Sen. Albert Hanover · 1 ep
Emergency!
TV · as J.P. Dumont · 1 ep
Five Bloody Graves
Movie · as The Voice of Death
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV · as Walter Markle · 1 ep
The Name of the Game
TV · as Senator Reeland · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · as Richmond Greene · 1 ep
Ironside
TV · as Marcus Weathers, Charles Huff · 1 ep
Judd, for the Defense
TV · 1 ep
Hondo
TV · 1 ep
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Charles Vechten · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as Harlan Franciscus · 1 ep
Laredo
TV · 1 ep
The Best Man
Movie · as Don Cantwell
The Hanged Man
Movie · as Whitey Devlin
I'd Rather Be Rich
Movie · as Martin Wood
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Col. Allan Morgan · 1 ep
Burke's Law
TV · as Arthur Wade · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Sawyer · 1 ep
Channing
TV · as Matt Bellamy · 1 ep
Sam Benedict
TV · 1 ep
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as Phil · 1 ep
Woman on the Run
Movie
Johnny Ringo
TV · as Silky Carter · 1 ep
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
TV · as John Niles · 1 ep
Plunder Road
Movie · as Eddie Harris
Where's Charley?
Movie · as Col. Sir Francis Chesney
Hit the Deck
Movie · as Wendell Craig
Matinee Theater
TV · as Edward Dudley · 3 eps
TV Reader's Digest
TV · 65 eps
Climax!
TV · as Grady Lederer · 1 ep
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Mark Colby · 1 ep
Kraft Television Theatre
TV · 1 ep
Medallion Theatre
TV · 1 ep
The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Stanley · 1 ep
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as US Army Major, Mark Alexander · 1 ep
Tales of Tomorrow
TV · 2 eps
The Red Skelton Show
TV · as General · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as John Aldrid, Luke Drake · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · 1 ep
Fireside Theater
TV · as Host · 142 eps
Assigned to Danger
Movie · as Dan Sullivan
Million Dollar Weekend
Movie · as Nicholas Lawrence
Sofia
Movie · as Steve Roark
Studio One
TV · as Charles Sterling · 1 ep
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Kraft Television Theatre
TV · as Andy Clements · 1 ep
The Locket
Movie · as John Willis
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Movie · as Jeff
Smilin' Through
Movie · as Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
Cross-Country Romance
Movie · as Lawrence Smith
Stolen Heaven
Movie · as Carl
She's Got Everything
Movie · as Fuller Partridge
The Life of the Party
Movie · as Barry Saunders
There Goes My Girl
Movie · as Jerry Martin
The Bride Walks Out
Movie · as Michael Martin
Love on a Bet
Movie · as Michael MacCreigh
That Girl from Paris
Movie · as Windy McLean
Smartest Girl in Town
Movie · as Richard Stuyvesant Smith
Walking on Air
Movie · as Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
The Woman in Red
Movie · as John 'Johnny' Wyatt
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Movie · as William Magee
Hooray for Love
Movie · as Douglas Tyler
Transient Lady
Movie · as Carey Marshall
Sadie McKee
Movie · as Tommy
Behold My Wife!
Movie · as Michael Carter
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Movie · as Jimmy Brett
Coming Out Party
Movie · as Chris Hansen
Flying Down to Rio
Movie · as Roger Bond
The House on 56th Street
Movie · as Monte Van Tyle
Ex-Lady
Movie · as Don Peterson
Zoo in Budapest
Movie · as Zani
I Am Suzanne!
Movie · as Tony Malatini
Brief Moment
Movie · as Rodney Deane
Ann Carver's Profession
Movie · as Bill
Red Dust
Movie · as Gary Willis
If I Had a Million
Movie · as John Wallace (uncredited)
The Night of June 13
Movie · as Herbert Morrow
Forgotten Commandments
Movie · as Paul Ossipoff
Ladies of the Big House
Movie · as Standish McNeil
Personal Maid
Movie · as Dick Gary