

Actor
August 13, 1908 · New York City, New York, USA
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".
Five Bloody Graves
as The Voice of Death
The Hanged Man
as Whitey Devlin
I'd Rather Be Rich
as Martin Wood
The Best Man
as Don Cantwell
Woman on the Run
cast
Plunder Road
as Eddie Harris
Where's Charley?
as Col. Sir Francis Chesney
Prima Donna
Writer
Hit the Deck
as Wendell Craig
Million Dollar Weekend
as Nicholas Lawrence and Director
Sofia
as Steve Roark
Assigned to Danger
as Dan Sullivan