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