Gene Raymond
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Red Skelton Show
General
1951
Series
Ironside
Marcus Weathers
1967
Series
Ironside
Charles Huff
1967
Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Series
Matinee Theater
1955
Series
Matinee Theater
Edward Dudley
1955
Series
Mannix
Richmond Greene
1967
Series
Emergency!
J.P. Dumont
1972
Series
Climax!
Grady Lederer
1954
Series
Studio One
Charles Sterling
1948
Series
Burke's Law
Arthur Wade
1963
Series
The F.B.I.
Harlan Franciscus
1965
Series
The Name of the Game
Senator Reeland
1968
Series
The Outer Limits
Sawyer
1963
Series
Kraft Television Theatre
Andy Clements
1947
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Ford Television Theatre
Stanley
1952
Series
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Col. Allan Morgan
1964
Series
Laredo
1965
Series
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Series
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Series
Johnny Ringo
Silky Carter
1959
Series
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Walter Markle
1969
Series
Sam Benedict
1962
Series
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Phil
1960
Series
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Charles Vechten
1966
Lux Video Theatre
John Aldrid
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Luke Drake
1950
Series
Hondo
1967
Fireside Theater
Host
1949
Series
The Invisible Man
Sen. Albert Hanover
1975
Series
Channing
Matt Bellamy
1963
Series
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
John Niles
1958
Series
Medallion Theatre
1953
Series
Letter to Loretta
Mark Colby
1953
Film
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Jeff
1941
Series
TV Reader's Digest
1955
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Series
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
Self
1987
Film
The Best Man
Don Cantwell
1964
Film
Red Dust
Gary Willis
1932
Film
Stolen Heaven
Carl
1938
Film
Flying Down to Rio
Roger Bond
1933
Film
The Locket
John Willis
1946
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
US Army Major
1951
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Mark Alexander
1951
Film
Hit the Deck
Wendell Craig
1955
McNaughton's Daughter
Emory Latimer Johns
1976
Film
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Jimmy Brett
1934
Film
Plunder Road
Eddie Harris
1957
Film
If I Had a Million
John Wallace (uncredited)
1932
Film
I'd Rather Be Rich
Martin Wood
1964
Film
Behold My Wife!
Michael Carter
1934
Film
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Smilin' Through
Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
1941
Film
Five Bloody Graves
The Voice of Death
1969
Film
The Hanged Man
Whitey Devlin
1964
Film
Sadie McKee
Tommy
1934
Film
Transient Lady
Carey Marshall
1935
Film
Forgotten Commandments
Paul Ossipoff
1932
Film
Ex-Lady
Don Peterson
1933
Film
Hooray for Love
Douglas Tyler
1935
Film
The Night of June 13
Herbert Morrow
1932
Film
Love on a Bet
Michael MacCreigh
1936
Film
Assigned to Danger
Dan Sullivan
1948
Film
She's Got Everything
Fuller Partridge
1937
Film
Walking on Air
Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
1936
Film
That Girl from Paris
Windy McLean
1936
Film
The Woman in Red
John 'Johnny' Wyatt
1935
Film
The House on 56th Street
Monte Van Tyle
1933
Film
Where's Charley?
Col. Sir Francis Chesney
1957
Film
There Goes My Girl
Jerry Martin
1937
Film
Seven Keys to Baldpate
William Magee
1935
Film
The Bride Walks Out
Michael Martin
1936
Film
Brief Moment
Rodney Deane
1933
Film
Ladies of the Big House
Standish McNeil
1931
Film
Ann Carver's Profession
Bill
1933
Film
Smartest Girl in Town
Richard Stuyvesant Smith
1936
Woman on the Run
1959
Film
Cross-Country Romance
Lawrence Smith
1940
Film
Million Dollar Weekend
Nicholas Lawrence
1948
Film
Zoo in Budapest
Zani
1933
Film
Coming Out Party
Chris Hansen
1934
Film
The Life of the Party
Barry Saunders
1937
Film
Sofia
Steve Roark
1948
Film
Personal Maid
Dick Gary
1931
Film
I Am Suzanne!
Tony Malatini
1933
Film
Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts
Self
1992