Gene Raymond

Born: 1908-08-13

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.


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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Jeff
Released: 1941-01-31

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks...

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Flying Down to Rio

as Roger Bond
Released: 1933-12-22

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

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Sadie McKee

as Tommy
Released: 1934-05-09

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

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Red Dust

as Gary Willis
Released: 1932-10-22

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon...

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If I Had a Million

as John Wallace (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-18

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...

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Plunder Road

as Eddie Harris
Released: 1957-12-05

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

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The Hanged Man

as Whitey Devlin
Released: 1964-11-18

A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union...

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The Locket

as John Willis
Released: 1946-12-20

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

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Ex-Lady

as Don Peterson
Released: 1933-05-15

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but...

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The Best Man

as Don Cantwell
Released: 1964-04-05

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has...

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The Woman in Red

as John 'Johnny' Wyatt
Released: 1935-02-16

A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this...

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Seven Keys to Baldpate

as William Magee
Released: 1935-12-13

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the...

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The Bride Walks Out

as Michael Martin
Released: 1936-07-10

Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin....

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Million Dollar Weekend

as Nicholas Lawrence
Released: 1948-10-29

A stock broker embezzles a million bucks and plans to take off to Shanghai. A number of...

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The Life of the Party

as Barry Saunders
Released: 1937-09-03

A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

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The House on 56th Street

as Monte Van Tyle
Released: 1933-12-23

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits...

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Behold My Wife!

as Michael Carter
Released: 1934-12-06

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy...

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Smilin' Through

as Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
Released: 1941-10-01

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride,...

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Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-05-06

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...

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Walking on Air

as Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
Released: 1936-09-11

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him...

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Cross-Country Romance

as Lawrence Smith
Released: 1940-07-12

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

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Smartest Girl in Town

as Richard Stuyvesant Smith
Released: 1936-11-27

A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

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Five Bloody Graves

as The Voice of Death
Released: 1969-10-31

A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's...

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That Girl from Paris

as Windy McLean
Released: 1936-12-31

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping...

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Zoo in Budapest

as Zani
Released: 1933-04-28

Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true...

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Personal Maid

as Dick Gary
Released: 1931-09-12

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a...

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She's Got Everything

as Fuller Partridge
Released: 1937-12-31

The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's...

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Hit the Deck

as Wendell Craig
Released: 1955-02-24

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.

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I'd Rather Be Rich

as Martin Wood
Released: 1964-08-25

An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of...

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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

as Jimmy Brett
Released: 1934-11-02

Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been...

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Love on a Bet

as Michael MacCreigh
Released: 1936-03-06

Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition...

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Sofia

as Steve Roark
Released: 1948-09-03

A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and...

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Coming Out Party

as Chris Hansen
Released: 1934-03-09

In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants...

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Forgotten Commandments

as Paul Ossipoff
Released: 1932-05-22

A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a...

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Hooray for Love

as Douglas Tyler
Released: 1935-06-14

A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes...

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Transient Lady

as Carey Marshall
Released: 1935-03-04

A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows...

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Brief Moment

as Rodney Deane
Released: 1933-09-29

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though...

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I Am Suzanne!

as Tony Malatini
Released: 1933-12-25

A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. ...

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Ann Carver's Profession

as William Graham
Released: 1933-06-09

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney...

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The Night of June 13

as Herbert Morrow
Released: 1932-09-17

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow....

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Assigned to Danger

as Dan Sullivan
Released: 1948-05-19

A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.

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There Goes My Girl

as Jerry Martin
Released: 1937-05-21

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when...

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Stolen Heaven

as Carl
Released: 1938-05-11

Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape...

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Ladies of the Big House

as Standish McNeil
Released: 1931-12-26

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a...

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Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts

as Self
Released: 1992-01-01

A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.

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Ironside

as Marcus Weathers
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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Ironside

as Charles Huff
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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Matinee Theater

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-31

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...

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Burke's Law

as Arthur Wade
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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The Outer Limits

as Sawyer
First aired: 1963-09-16

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...

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Mannix

as Richmond Greene
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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Climax!

as Grady Lederer
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Emergency!

as J.P. Dumont
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

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The F.B.I.

as Harlan Franciscus
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The Name of the Game

as Senator Reeland
First aired: 1968-09-20

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...

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The Red Skelton Show

as General
First aired: 1951-09-30

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades,...

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Studio One

as Charles Sterling
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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

as Col. Allan Morgan
First aired: 1964-09-22

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Laredo

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-16

Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to...

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Johnny Ringo

as Silky Carter
First aired: 1959-10-02

Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from...

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Tales of Tomorrow

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-08-03

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and...

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Sam Benedict

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-09-15

Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The...

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Kraft Television Theatre

as Andy Clements
First aired: 1947-05-07

Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series

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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Phil
First aired: 1960-09-19

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...

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The Ford Television Theatre

as Stanley
First aired: 1952-10-02

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to...

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Judd for the Defense

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-08

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...

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Hondo

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-08

Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United...

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The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

as John Niles
First aired: 1958-09-26

Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero...

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The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

as Walter Markle
First aired: 1969-09-14

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC,...

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The Invisible Man

as Sen. Albert Hanover
First aired: 1975-05-06

Dr. Daniel Westin creates a formula to be used for matter transformation. To test the formula he...

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Channing

as Matt Bellamy
First aired: 1963-09-18

Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College....

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McNaughton's Daughter

as Emory Latimer Johns
First aired: 1976-03-24

Series pilot about a female deputy district attorney assigned the task of trying to pin a murder...

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Letter to Loretta

as Mark Colby
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as US Army Major
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Mark Alexander
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Medallion Theatre

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-07-11

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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

as Self
First aired: 1987-07-03

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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