Daniel Raymond Massey was an English actor and performer.
Background
Massey was born in London in 1933. He was a member of the noted Massey family, which included his father, Raymond Massey, his sister, Anna Massey and his uncle Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada. His mother was the actress Adrianne Allen.
Living with his mother after his parents" divorce, Massey rarely saw his father through most of his adult life.
However, they were cast as father and son in The Queen"s Guards (1961).
Education
He was educated at Eton College and King"s College, Cambridge.
Career
He is possibly best known for his starring role in the British television drama The Roads to Freedom, as Daniel, alongside Michael Bryant. Massey made his film debut as a child in Noël Coward"s flag-waver, In Which We Serve (1942) – Coward being his godfather. Massey appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s onwards, including Cromwell, The Cat and the Canary, The Jokers, The Vault of Horror, Mary, Queen of Scots,, and In the Name of the Father.
He recreated the role for Broadway a year later earning a Tony nomination.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he also appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions such as Love"s Labours Lost, Measure for Measure and The Time of Your Life, the latter alongside John Thaw. On television, highlights include The Crucible (1980) as Reverend Hale, The Golden Bowl (1972) as the Prince, in the Inspector Morse episode "Deceived by Flight" as Anthony Dunn, again with John Thaw, and his performance as an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome patient in Intimate Contact (1987).
With Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, he played a United States.Senator in "The Problem of Thor Bridge" season 5, Granada Television, 1990. He died in London after a three-year battle with Hodgkin"s lymphoma, and was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery.
Massey worked in theatre throughout his cancer treatments, rarely missing a performance.