Massey also played many villains (witness his wonderful Black Michael in "The Prisoner of Zenda" 1937), though he was capable of handling the occasional relaxed and likable romantic lead, as he did in James Whale's superb "The Old Dark House" (1932). And, of course, late in life Massey became widely known to a new generation of audiences as the kindly Dr. Gillespie of TV's long-running "Dr. Kildare" series (1961-66). Father, by actor Adrianne Allen (to whom he was married from 1929 to 1939), of British actors Daniel and Anna Massey.