Robert Shayne

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

125

Movies

105

Born: October 4, 1900 – November 29, 1992
From: Yonkers, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Shayne (October 4, 1900 – November 29, 1992), born Robert Shaen Dawe, was an American actor whose career lasted for over 60 years. He was best known for portraying Inspector Bill Henderson in the American television series Adventures of Superman. Shayne became an actor after having worked as a reporter at the Illustrated Daily Tab in Miami, Florida. His initial acting experience came with repertory companies in Alabama, including the Birmingham Players. Shayne's first Broadway appearance came by 1931 in The Rap. His other Broadway shows include Yellow Jack (1934), The Cat and the Canary (1935), Whiteoaks (1938), with Ethel Barrymore, and Without Love (1942), with Katharine Hepburn. Shayne began his film career in 1934, appearing in two features. In 1942, he became a contract actor with Warner Bros.. He played many character roles in movies and television, including a film series of Warner Bros. featurettes called the "Santa Fe Trail" series such as Wagon Wheels West, and as a mad scientist in the 1953 horror film The Neanderthal Man. He appears briefly in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, seated at a booth in a hotel bar, where his character meets Cary Grant's character, just as the latter is about to be kidnapped. He also had a small but pivotal role in the 1953 sci-fi classic Invaders From Mars as a scientist. He also enjoyed a brief rebirth in his career when he was cast as the blind newspaper vendor in The Flash television show. He was by this time actually blind and learned his lines by having his wife read them to him and then rehearse until he memorized them. Shayne portrayed Police Inspector William "Bill" Henderson on the 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman. He appeared sporadically in the early episodes of the series, in part because he came under HUAC scrutiny and was briefly blacklisted on unproven and unspecific charges of association with Communism. As the program evolved, especially in the color episodes, he was brought into more and more of them, to the point where he was a regular on the series.

Works

105 films

North by Northwest

19598.0

Tora! Tora! Tora!

19707.2

Mr. Skeffington

19446.8

From the Terrace

19606.6

Invaders from Mars

19535.9

The Million Dollar Duck

19715.9

Missing Women

19516.6

Son of Flubber

19636.1

Christmas in Connecticut

19457.0

The Blue Gardenia

19536.5

Winning

19696.0

The Barefoot Executive

19715.6

Federal Man

19506.5

Double Jeopardy

19555.2

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

19606.3

Three Strangers

19466.4

How to Make a Monster

19585.7

The Giant Claw

19574.8

San Antonio

19456.1

Hot Shots

19566.3

Shaggy

194810.0

Wife Wanted

19467.8

Loaded Pistols

19486.5

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

Welcome Stranger

19476.9

The Priest Killer

1971

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

19476.4

War of the Satellites

19585.2

Why Must I Die

19605.3

A Tiger Walks

19645.8

Cool Breeze

19725.1

Kronos

19575.7

Mr. Walkie Talkie

19526.5

Indestructible Man

19564.4

Let's Live a Little

19487.0

Mission to Moscow

19435.7

Nobody Lives Forever

19466.4

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

19744.9

Wagon Wheels West

19437.0

The Naked Monster

20054.4

The Rebel Set

19593.3

Make Your Own Bed

19446.0

I, Mobster

19596.6

Prince of Pirates

19538.3

Trader Tom of the China Seas

195410.0

Indian Uprising

19526.5

The Ring

19525.1

The Gentleman Tramp

19767.1

The Neanderthal Man

19534.3

King of the Carnival

19559.0

Criminal Lawyer

19517.4

Teenage Cave Man

19584.0

Backlash

19474.8

The Specialist

19754.7

Eyes of the Jungle

19538.0

Dance with Me, Henry

19565.2

The Desperado

19547.2

Death in Small Doses

19575.1

Roaring Guns

19448.0

Without Warning!

19526.0

State Penitentiary

19507.3

Rider from Tucson

19507.0

Murder Is My Beat

19556.0

Behind the Mask

19465.5

The Threat

19496.0

Superman and Scotland Yard

19547.3

Shine on Harvest Moon

19446.8

Frontier Days

19456.3

Oklahoma Outlaws

19436.3

The Inside Story

19486.6

Superman and the Jungle Devil

19548.7

Footsteps in the Night

19575.6

Valley of the Redwoods

19606.5

The Swordsman

19487.3

Flight Nurse

19536.0

Experiment Alcatraz

19506.9

The Four Deuces

19755.0

The Face of Marble

19464.6

Dynamite Pass

19506.1

Wednesday's Child

19343.8

The Dakota Kid

19517.5

Cage of Evil

19605.8

Trial by Trigger

19445.7

Big Timber

195010.0

Gun to Gun

19448.0

Customs Agent

195010.0

Runaway Girl

19658.0

Law of the Badlands

194510.0

20,000 Eyes

19615.3

Forgotten Women

19497.0

Superman in Exile

19548.3

Marshal of Cedar Rock

19536.3

The Spirit of West Point

194710.0

Superman's Peril

1954

Spook Chasers

19574.9

When You're Smiling

19509.0

Rumble on the Docks

19566.2

The Strange Mrs. Crane

19486.3

Keep 'Em Rolling

19346.3

Best Man Wins

19487.0

I Won't Play

19446.4

Superman Flies Again

19547.7

I Ring Doorbells

19467.0

I Cover Big Town

19478.0

Behind Southern Lines

19528.0