Veteran stage and film star in both England and the US, long associated with his performance as "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" (1940), written for Massey by playwright Robert Sherwood. Lanky and not conventionally handsome, with a long, saturnine face and full lips, Massey brought an intense, commanding presence to features and often played discomforting authority figures. Notable examples of this type of role include his nasty Chauvelin in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1935), his principled John Brown in "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), his stern prosecutor in the Heaven-set sequences of the imaginative