Family
daughter:Alice Pearl Massey (mother, Penelope Wilton; survived him)
father:Raymond Massey (born on August 30, 1896 in Toronto; died on July 29, 1983 in Los Angeles; was married to Massey's mother from 1929 to 1939; prominent stage and screen actor, in many films including "The Old Dark House" (1932), "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1935), "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" (1940), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1945) and "East of Eden" (1955))
mother:Adrianne Allen (born on February 7, 1907 in Manchester, England; died on September 14, 1993 in Montreux, Switzerland; worked primarily onstage in plays ranging from "Easy Virtue" (1926) to "Pride and Prejudice" (1935) and "Edward My Son" (1948); later played character roles; acted in a few films, including "The Woman Between" (1931) and "The October Man" (1947))
sister:Anna Massey (born in Sussex, England on August 11, 1937; made London stage debut in "The Reluctant Debutante" (1958); prominent in TV and film; perhaps best remembered in the latter capacity in Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (1972))
son:Paul Massey (mother, Adrienne Corri; survived him)
wife:Penelope Wilton (born on June 3, 1946 in Scarborough, England; married in 1975; divorced in 1987; has acted in films including "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "Country" (both 1981), "Cry Freedom" (1987), and "The Secret Rapture" (1993))
wife:Lindsay Wilton (younger sister of Penelope Wilton; together since c. 1987; survived him)
wife:Adrienne Corri (born on November 13, 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland; married in 1961; divorced in 1968; has acted in films including "The River" (1951), "Lease of Life" (1954), "The Rough and the Smooth" (1959), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) and "A Clockwork Orange" (1971))
London Critics' Circle Award Best Actor "Taking Sides" 1995
CableACE Award Actor in a Dramatic/Theatrical Special "HBO Showcase: Intimate Contact") 1989
Society of West End Theatre (SWET) Award Best Actor in a Revival "Man and Superman" 1981
Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actor "Star!" 1968
1996 Returned to US stage reprising his London role in "Taking Sides", co-starring with Ed Harris
1995 Final London stage appearance, originating the role of conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler in "Taking Sides"
1993 Last feature film, played the prosecutor in "In the Name of the Father"
1989 Returned to film work with a role in the British-made feature, "Scandal"
1987 Co-starred with Claire Bloom in the HBO production "Intimate Contact", playing a businessman who contracts AIDS after a liaison during a trip to Asia
1987 Starred opposite Diana Rigg and Julia McKenzie in the London production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical "Follies"
1986 Earliest work made specifically for American TV, the Showtime TV-movie, "Love With a Perfect Stranger"
1981 Last feature film for eight years, "Escape to Victory"
1977 Scored a critical success opposite Claire Bloom in the London stage production of Ibsen's "Rosmersholm"
1973 Acted in the six-part made-for-TV miniseries, "The Golden Bowl", based on the novel by Henry James; miniseries was aired on PBS in the USA
1973 Acted opposite his sister Anna Massey in the "Midnight Mass" segment of the five-part horror anthology film, "Vault of Horror"
1972 Earliest US TV appearances included his leading role in the PBS adaptation, "The Roads to Freedom", based on a trilogy of novels by Jean-Paul Sartre
1972 - 1973 Had featured role in the British TV adaptation of "War and Peace"
1971 Played Robert Dudley opposite Glenda Jackson and Vanessa Redgrave in "Mary, Queen of Scots"
1968 First US film, "Star!", in which he played Noel Coward and received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor
1963 Played on Broadway in the musical, "She Loves Me"; billed third after Jack Cassidy and Barbara Cook; American stage debut
1958 Returned to films to make his second feature and play first adult role, "Girls at Sea"
1957 London stage debut, "The Happiest Millionaire"
1956 Stage acting debut in "Peril at End House" in Worthing
1942 Made feature film debut at age eight in "In Which We Serve", co-directed and starring his godfather, Noel Coward
Returned to Broadway to play in the revival of the Lerner and Loewe musical, "Gigi"
Was a member of the company of the National Theatre; had one of his biggest stage successes in "Man and Superman"
Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, appeared in "Measure for Measure" and "Twelfth Night"
Starred in the
Was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in the early 1990s