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Gene Raymond

Born · August 13, 1908

Died · May 2, 1998 (89 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Bio

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.

Known for

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits

Red Dust

Red Dust

Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage)

2003

Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts

Self

1992

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

Self · (1 episode)

1987

McNaughton's Daughter

Emory Latimer Johns · (3 episodes)

1976

The Invisible Man

Sen. Albert Hanover · (1 episode)

1975

Emergency!

J.P. Dumont · (1 episode)

1972

Five Bloody Graves

The Voice of Death

1969

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

Walter Markle · (1 episode)

1969

The Name of the Game

Senator Reeland · (1 episode)

1968

Mannix

Richmond Greene · (1 episode)

1967

Judd for the Defense

(1 episode)

1967

Hondo

(1 episode)

1967

Ironside

Marcus Weathers · (1 episode)

1967

Ironside

Charles Huff · (1 episode)

1967

The F.B.I.

Harlan Franciscus · (1 episode)

1965

Laredo

(1 episode)

1965

The Hanged Man

Whitey Devlin

1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Col. Allan Morgan · (1 episode)

1964

I'd Rather Be Rich

Martin Wood

1964

The Best Man

Don Cantwell

1964

Burke's Law

Arthur Wade · (1 episode)

1963

Channing

Matt Bellamy · (1 episode)

1963

The Outer Limits

Sawyer · (1 episode)

1963

Sam Benedict

(1 episode)

1962

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Phil · (1 episode)

1960

Johnny Ringo

Silky Carter · (1 episode)

1959

Woman on the Run

1959

The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

John Niles · (1 episode)

1958

Plunder Road

Eddie Harris

1957

Matinee Theater

(3 episodes)

1955

Hit the Deck

Wendell Craig

1955

TV Reader's Digest

(65 episodes)

1955

Climax!

Grady Lederer · (1 episode)

1954

Kraft Television Theatre

(1 episode)

1953

Letter to Loretta

Mark Colby · (1 episode)

1953

Medallion Theatre

(1 episode)

1953

The Ford Television Theatre

Stanley · (1 episode)

1952

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

US Army Major · (1 episode)

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Mark Alexander · (1 episode)

1951

The Red Skelton Show

General · (1 episode)

1951

Tales of Tomorrow

(2 episodes)

1951

Lux Video Theatre

John Aldrid · (1 episode)

1950

Lux Video Theatre

Luke Drake · (1 episode)

1950

Fireside Theater

Host · (142 episodes)

1949

Studio One

Charles Sterling · (1 episode)

1948

Million Dollar Weekend

Nicholas Lawrence

1948

Sofia

Steve Roark

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self · (2 episodes)

1948

Assigned to Danger

Dan Sullivan

1948

Kraft Television Theatre

Andy Clements · (1 episode)

1947

The Locket

John Willis

1946

Smilin' Through

Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne

1941

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Jeff

1941

Cross-Country Romance

Lawrence Smith

1940

Stolen Heaven

Carl

1938

She's Got Everything

Fuller Partridge

1937

The Life of the Party

Barry Saunders

1937

There Goes My Girl

Jerry Martin

1937

That Girl from Paris

Windy McLean

1936

Smartest Girl in Town

Richard Stuyvesant Smith

1936

Walking on Air

Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac

1936

The Bride Walks Out

Michael Martin

1936

Love on a Bet

Michael MacCreigh

1936

Seven Keys to Baldpate

William Magee

1935

Hooray for Love

Douglas Tyler

1935

Transient Lady

Carey Marshall

1935

The Woman in Red

John 'Johnny' Wyatt

1935

Behold My Wife!

Michael Carter

1934

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

Jimmy Brett

1934

Sadie McKee

Tommy

1934

Coming Out Party

Chris Hansen

1934

I Am Suzanne!

Tony Malatini

1933

The House on 56th Street

Monte Van Tyle

1933

Flying Down to Rio

Roger Bond

1933

Brief Moment

Rodney Deane

1933

Ann Carver's Profession

William Graham

1933

Ex-Lady

Don Peterson

1933

Zoo in Budapest

Zani

1933

If I Had a Million

John Wallace (uncredited)

1932

Red Dust

Gary Willis

1932

The Night of June 13

Herbert Morrow

1932

Forgotten Commandments

Paul Ossipoff

1932

Ladies of the Big House

Standish McNeil

1931

Personal Maid

Dick Gary

1931