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Gene Raymond

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Known For

89 Years Old

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.

Born

New York City, New York, USA on 13th August 1908

Died

2nd May 1998

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