| Paul Massie | |
| Birthname: | Arthur Dickinson Massé |
| Birth Date: | 7 July 1932 |
| Birth Place: | St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada |
| Death Place: | Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Occupation: | Actor Academic |
| Years Active: | 1958–1998 |
| Known For: | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll |
Paul Massie (born Arthur Dickinson Massé; July 7, 1932June 8, 2011)[1] was a Canadian actor and academic.[2] He later became a theater professor at the University of South Florida in the 1970s. He remained on faculty until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1996.[3]
Massie won a BAFTA Award in 1959 for Most Promising Newcomer for his role in the Anthony Asquith film Orders to Kill (1958) in which he portrayed an American bomber pilot in Nazi-occupied France.[4] [5] Also in 1958 he acted in the Peter Hall production of Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Comedy Theatre in London, with Kim Stanley and Leo McKern also in the cast.[1]
Massie played the characters of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the 1960 Hammer horror film The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.[6] Unusually, he played Jekyll in make-up as an older bearded man, and his villainous counterpart Hyde as his young, handsome self.[7] He also appeared in the thriller Sapphire (1959), and The Rebel (1961), a vehicle for British comedian Tony Hancock, as a budding artist.[8] His later films included the British comedies Raising the Wind (1961) and The Pot Carriers (1962).[9]
In 1963, he acted in William Fairchild's play Breaking Point, at the Golders Green Hippodrome, London with John Gregson, fellow Canadian Robert Beatty, and Robert Ayres in the cast. John Barron was director.[4] [10]
In 1965 he appeared in the second episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television seriesThe Avengers. In the episode, entitled "The Gravediggers", he played the villainous character Dr. Johnson.[11]
Later in his career, Massie shifted his focus to teaching, and became a member of the faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he had often been a guest artist-instructor over the years, first appearing in a 1966 production of Tartuffe. He taught acting, scene study, voice production, clowning, directing and other subjects. He also directed numerous productions at USF.[12] [3]
Paul Massie died on June 8, 2011, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, at the age of 78.[4] He had resided on the South Shore of Nova Scotia since his retirement from USF in 1996.[4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | High Tide at Noon | Sailor | Uncredited | ||
| 1958 | Orders to Kill | Gene Summers | |||
| 1959 | Sapphire | David Harris | |||
| 1959 | Libel | Jeffrey Buckenham | |||
| 1960 | data-sort-value="Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The" | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde | ||
| 1961 | data-sort-value="Rebel, The" | The Rebel | Paul Ashby | ||
| 1961 | Raising the Wind | Malcolm Stewart | |||
| 1962 | data-sort-value="Pot Carriers, The" | The Pot Carriers | Rainbow | ||
| 1970 | Docteur Caraïbes | Denniger | |||
| 1991 | Sam & Me | Cop two | |||
| 1995 | data-sort-value="Naked Eye, The" | The Naked Eye | Davis Parks |