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