Junius Brutus Booth
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Junius Brutus Booth was an English-American stage actor. He was the father of actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. His other children included Edwin Booth, the foremost tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century, Junius Brutus Booth Jr., an actor and theatre manager, and Asia Booth Clarke, a poet and writer.
L-to-r: Booth's sons, John, Edwin, and Junius Jr. in Julius Caesar
Booth's grave at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore
Visitors to the Booth family plot often leave pennies, which depict Lincoln on the obverse, on the monument of John Wilkes Booth's father, Junius.
Raymond Massey
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Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on television and in How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–1966), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Raymond Massey in the Broadway production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938)
Beverly Garland, Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey in the first episode of Dr. Kildare (1961)
Richard Chamberlain, Daniela Bianchi and Massey in Dr. Kildare (1964)