William LeMassena

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William LeMassena was a stage and television actor who appeared in occasional films. Most audiences today know him as the Heavenly Friend who serves as a guide to Gordon MacRae on his return trip to Earth in the 1956 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. But Massena appeared in other roles, including a notable stint towards the end of his life as Ambrose Bingham, on the popular daytime soap opera As the World Turns. He also appeared throughout the 1960s in several TV adaptations of stage plays on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, including a 1960 production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, starring Maurice Evans, Lee Remick, Roddy McDowall, and Richard Burton) (LeMassena was Antonio), as well as a 1967 production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, starring Genevieve Bujold in her American television debut as Joan of Arc), and featuring LeMassena as Jean d'Estivet.

He also appeared in the first (and so far, the only) made-for-television production of the operetta Naughty Marietta, in the role of Rudolfo.

LeMassena was a close friend of actor Montgomery Clift, and reminisced about him on a PBS documentary.