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person_profile-Gene Raymond

Gene Raymond Died at age: 89

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Gene Raymond

Date of Birth:

Aug 13, 1908

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

May 02, 1998

Biography of

Gene Raymond

    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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Filmography of

Gene Raymond

Found 45 Movies in total

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

... 1992

Five Bloody Graves

The Voice of Death ( Actor )

... 1969

The Hanged Man

Whitey Devlin ( Actor )

... 1964

I'd Rather Be Rich

Martin Wood ( Actor )

... 1964

The Best Man

Don Cantwell ( Actor )

... 1964

Plunder Road

Eddie Harris ( Actor )

... 1957

Hit the Deck

Wendell Craig ( Actor )

... 1955

Million Dollar Weekend

Nicholas Lawrence ( Actor )

Original Story

... 1948

Sofia

Steve Roark ( Actor )

... 1948

Assigned to Danger

Dan Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1948

The Locket

John Willis ( Actor )

... 1946

Smilin' Through

Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne ( Actor )

... 1941

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Jeff ( Actor )

... 1941

Cross-Country Romance

Lawrence Smith ( Actor )

... 1940

Stolen Heaven

Carl ( Actor )

... 1938

She's Got Everything

Fuller Partridge ( Actor )

... 1937

The Life of the Party

Barry Saunders ( Actor )

... 1937

There Goes My Girl

Jerry Martin ( Actor )

... 1937

That Girl from Paris

Windy McLean ( Actor )

... 1936

Smartest Girl in Town

Richard Stuyvesant Smith ( Actor )

... 1936

Walking on Air

Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac ( Actor )

... 1936

The Bride Walks Out

Michael Martin ( Actor )

... 1936

Love on a Bet

Michael MacCreigh ( Actor )

... 1936

Seven Keys to Baldpate

William Magee ( Actor )

... 1935

Hooray for Love

Douglas Tyler ( Actor )

... 1935

Transient Lady

Carey Marshall ( Actor )

... 1935

The Woman in Red

John 'Johnny' Wyatt ( Actor )

... 1935

Behold My Wife!

Michael Carter ( Actor )

... 1934

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

Jimmy Brett ( Actor )

... 1934

Sadie McKee

Tommy Wallace ( Actor )

... 1934

Coming Out Party

Chris Hansen ( Actor )

... 1934

I Am Suzanne!

Tony Malatini ( Actor )

... 1933

The House on 56th Street

Monte Van Tyle ( Actor )

... 1933

Flying Down to Rio

Roger Bond ( Actor )

... 1933

Brief Moment

Rodney Deane ( Actor )

... 1933

Ann Carver's Profession

William Graham ( Actor )

... 1933

Ex-Lady

Don Peterson ( Actor )

... 1933

Zoo in Budapest

Zani ( Actor )

... 1933

If I Had a Million

John Wallace (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Red Dust

Gary Willis ( Actor )

... 1932

The Night of June 13

Herbert Morrow ( Actor )

... 1932

Forgotten Commandments

Paul Ossipoff ( Actor )

... 1932

Ladies of the Big House

Standish McNeil ( Actor )

... 1931

Personal Maid

Dick Gary ( Actor )

... 1931