Daniel Massey (actor)
Daniel Raymond Massey ( born October 10, 1933, London, † March 25, 1998 ) was a British actor.
Biography
Private life
Daniel Massey was born as the son of actor couple Adrianne and Raymond Massey. When the boy was six years old, his parents divorced and his mother moved to London with Daniel and his sister Anna. There Adrianne Massey married William Attorney Dwight Whitney. The brother of Daniel Massey's father was the later Governor General of Canada Vincent Massey.
Massey married in 1961 his fellow actress Adrienne Corri. The marriage lasted six years and the couple was divorced in 1967. In 1975 he married again with an actress Penelope Wilton. The couple has a daughter. After separating from his second wife, married her sister Lindy Wilton Daniel Massey. With her he was married until his death.
In the early 1990s, a lymph node enlargement was noted in the actor. On March 25, 1998, he finally succumbed to his sufferings.
Career
1942, at the age of 9 years, Massey was the first time in the war film In Which We Serve, directed by David Lean and Noël Coward in front of the camera. Despite this early debuts it brought the actor in the course of his 50 year career at only 41 films.
Besides his work in film Massey was also on the theater stage. He played in the play The Widower by Cyril Campion, which was produced by Alan Bridges 1957. Daniel Massey was also along with Barbara Cook, Jack Cassidy and Barbara Baxley in the original cast of the musical She Loves Me
Especially in the 1970s, he made himself a name in the UK. He played in 1968 on the side of Julie Andrews and Richard Crenna in the movie star! directed by Robert Wise. In the film adaptation of the life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland he played Robert Dudley opposite Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Stuart and Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I. In 1977, he worked with director Guy Green and colleagues like John Mills and Stéphane Audran for the film The Devil lawyer together.
Daniel Massey's last movie was Nicolas Roeg's film adaptation Bible The Bible - Samson and Delilah with Dennis Hopper and Diana Rigg. The animated film The Man of the 1000 Miracle on the life of Jesus of Nazareth, in which the actor lent his voice Cleopas, was not published until after his death.
Awards
Together with the ensemble Daniel Massey was awarded at the 1964 Grammy Awards for Album of the musical She Loves Me.
For his performance in Star! Massey was in 1969 nominated for both a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.