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

The Million Dollar Duck

19715.9

Invaders from Mars

19535.9

Missing Women

19516.6

Christmas in Connecticut

19457.0

From the Terrace

19606.6

Son of Flubber

19636.1

Federal Man

19506.5

The Barefoot Executive

19715.6

The Blue Gardenia

19536.5

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

19606.3

San Antonio

19456.1

Hot Shots

19566.3

Welcome Stranger

19476.9

A Tiger Walks

19645.8

The Priest Killer

1971

Three Strangers

19466.4

Winning

19696.0

Double Jeopardy

19555.2

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

How to Make a Monster

19585.7

The Giant Claw

19574.8

Cool Breeze

19725.1

Wagon Wheels West

19437.0

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

19744.9

War of the Satellites

19585.2

Loaded Pistols

19486.5

Mr. Walkie Talkie

19526.5

Rider from Tucson

19507.0

Kronos

19575.7

Why Must I Die

19605.3

Shine on Harvest Moon

19446.8

Nobody Lives Forever

19466.4

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

19476.4

Mission to Moscow

19435.7

Trader Tom of the China Seas

195410.0

Make Your Own Bed

19446.0

Prince of Pirates

19538.3

Shaggy

194810.0

Teenage Cave Man

19584.0

Let's Live a Little

19487.0

Superman and the Jungle Devil

19548.7

Death in Small Doses

19575.1

The Naked Monster

20054.4

The Rebel Set

19593.3

Murder Is My Beat

19556.0

Superman and Scotland Yard

19547.3

Wife Wanted

19467.8

The Desperado

19547.2

King of the Carnival

19559.0

Behind the Mask

19465.5

The Specialist

19754.7

Criminal Lawyer

19517.4

Customs Agent

195010.0

Indestructible Man

19564.4

Oklahoma Outlaws

19436.3

Dance with Me, Henry

19565.2

I, Mobster

19596.6

Experiment Alcatraz

19506.9

Footsteps in the Night

19575.6

State Penitentiary

19507.3

Eyes of the Jungle

19538.0

Without Warning!

19526.0

Backlash

19474.8

20,000 Eyes

19615.3

The Gentleman Tramp

19767.1

The Ring

19525.1

The Threat

19496.0

Flight Nurse

19536.0

The Inside Story

19486.6

Indian Uprising

19526.5

The Neanderthal Man

19534.3

The Four Deuces

19755.0

The Dakota Kid

19517.5

Roaring Guns

19448.0

When You're Smiling

19509.0

Dynamite Pass

19506.1

Marshal of Cedar Rock

19536.3

The Swordsman

19487.3

Valley of the Redwoods

19606.5

The Face of Marble

19464.6

Cage of Evil

19605.8

Frontier Days

19456.3

Best Man Wins

19487.0

Superman's Peril

1954

Big Timber

195010.0

Behind Southern Lines

19528.0

I Cover Big Town

19478.0

The Strange Mrs. Crane

19486.3

Wednesday's Child

19343.8

Superman Flies Again

19547.7

Rumble on the Docks

19566.2

Superman in Exile

19548.3

Trial by Trigger

19445.7

I Won't Play

19446.4

Runaway Girl

19658.0

Law of the Badlands

194510.0

Gun to Gun

19448.0

The Spirit of West Point

194710.0

Spook Chasers

19574.9

Forgotten Women

19497.0

Keep 'Em Rolling

19346.3

I Ring Doorbells

19467.0