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Gene Raymond

Gene Raymond

Actor · Born 1908-08-13 · New York City, New York, USA

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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 Crawfor…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) — Jeff
  2. The Outer Limits (1963) — Sawyer
  3. Red Dust (1932) — Gary Willis
  4. Flying Down to Rio (1933) — Roger Bond
  5. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) — Col. Allan Morgan
  6. Ironside (1967) — Marcus Weathers
  7. Mannix (1967) — Richmond Greene
  8. Emergency! (1972) — J.P. Dumont
  9. If I Had a Million (1932) — John Wallace (uncredited)
  10. The Locket (1946) — John Willis
  11. Plunder Road (1957) — Eddie Harris
  12. The Best Man (1964) — Don Cantwell
  13. The Invisible Man (1975) — Sen. Albert Hanover
  14. The F.B.I. (1965) — Harlan Franciscus
  15. Sadie McKee (1934) — Tommy
  16. Ex-Lady (1933) — Don Peterson
  17. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  18. The Woman in Red (1935) — John 'Johnny' Wyatt
  19. The Red Skelton Show (1951) — General
  20. Hit the Deck (1955) — Wendell Craig
  21. Five Bloody Graves (1969) — The Voice of Death
  22. Zoo in Budapest (1933) — Zani
  23. The Bride Walks Out (1936) — Michael Martin
  24. Laredo (1965)
  25. Studio One (1948) — Charles Sterling
  26. The Name of the Game (1968) — Senator Reeland
  27. Million Dollar Weekend (1948) — Nicholas Lawrence
  28. Complicated Women (2003) — Self (archive footage)
  29. Burke's Law (1963) — Arthur Wade
  30. Climax! (1954) — Grady Lederer
  31. Smilin' Through (1941) — Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
  32. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) — William Magee
  33. The House on 56th Street (1933) — Monte Van Tyle
  34. Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934) — Jimmy Brett
  35. Johnny Ringo (1959) — Silky Carter
  36. The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966) — Charles Vechten
  37. Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
  38. Assigned to Danger (1948) — Dan Sullivan
  39. That Girl from Paris (1936) — Windy McLean
  40. Lux Video Theatre (1950) — John Aldrid

Directed

  1. Million Dollar Weekend (1948) — Director