Daniel Massey

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Daniel Raymond Massey (born October 10, 1933 in London , † March 25, 1998 there ) was a British actor .

Life

Private life

Daniel Massey was born to the actor couple Adrianne and Raymond Massey . When the boy was six years old, his parents divorced and the mother moved to London with Daniel and his sister Anna . There Adrianne Massey married the prosecutor William Dwight Whitney. The brother of Daniel Massey's father was the future Governor General of Canada Vincent Massey .

Massey married his colleague Adrienne Corri in 1961 . The marriage lasted six years and the couple divorced again in 1967. In 1975 he remarried an actress with Penelope Wilton . The couple have a daughter together. After separating from his second wife, Daniel Massey married her sister Lindy Wilton. He was married to her until his death.

As early as the early 1990s, the actor was diagnosed with an enlarged lymph nodes . On March 25, 1998 he finally succumbed to his ailment.

Career

In 1942, at the age of 9, Massey first appeared in the war film In Which We Serve , directed by David Lean and Noël Coward . Despite this early debut , the actor has made only 41 films in his 50-year career.

In addition to his work in film, Massey was also on the stage. He played in the piece The Widower after Cyril Campion , which was produced in 1957 by Alan Bridges . Daniel Massey was also part of the original cast of the musical She Loves Me along with Barbara Cook, Jack Cassidy and Barbara Baxley .

He made a name for himself in Great Britain especially in the 1970s . In 1968 he played alongside Julie Andrews and Richard Crenna in the film Star! by director Robert Wise . In the film adaptation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots he played Robert Dudley alongside Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Queen of Scots 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's Advocate .

Daniel Massey's last film was Nicolas Roeg's bible adaptation The Bible - Samson and Delila with Dennis Hopper and Diana Rigg . The cartoon The Man of 1000 Miracles about the life of Jesus of Nazareth , in which the actor Cleopas lent his voice, was only released after his death.

Awards

Together with the ensemble, Daniel Massey was awarded at the 1964 Grammy Awards for the album for the musical She Loves Me .

For his performance in Star! Massey was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1969.

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SURNAME Massey, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massey, Daniel Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1998
Place of death London