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Robert Shayne

Robert Shayne

Actor · 1900 – 1992 · Yonkers, New York, USA

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.

Movies24

  • Movie8.0

    North by Northwest

    1959 · 4.6K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    1970 · 623 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Mr. Skeffington

    1944 · 74 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Blue Gardenia

    1953 · 104 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Invaders from Mars

    1953 · 212 votes

  • Movie4.8

    The Giant Claw

    1957 · 95 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Million Dollar Duck

    1971 · 97 votes

  • Movie5.6

    The Barefoot Executive

    1971 · 48 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Son of Flubber

    1963 · 71 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Missing Women

    1951 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.2

    War of the Satellites

    1958 · 40 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Double Jeopardy

    1955 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.8

    A Tiger Walks

    1964 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.7

    How to Make a Monster

    1958 · 30 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Dance with Me, Henry

    1956 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Three Strangers

    1946 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.6

    From the Terrace

    1960 · 57 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Federal Man

    1950 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Winning

    1969 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie5.0

    The Four Deuces

    1975 · 3 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Hollywood Canteen

    1944 · 29 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Cool Breeze

    1972 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Welcome Stranger

    1947 · 7 votes

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  • TV8.1

    Columbo

    1971 · 857 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Donna Reed Show

    1958 · 19 votes

  • TV8.0

    Emergency!

    1972 · 53 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Doris Day Show

    1968 · 11 votes

  • TV6.8

    Land of the Giants

    1968 · 50 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV6.3

    Surfside 6

    1960 · 3 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Flash

    1990 · 532 votes

  • TV6.7

    Adventures of Superman

    1952 · 63 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV7.2

    77 Sunset Strip

    1958 · 26 votes

  • TV5.2

    Navy Log

    1955 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hazel

    1961 · 22 votes

  • TV7.2

    Freddy's Nightmares

    1988 · 215 votes

  • TV5.3
  • TV7.2

    The Third Man

    1959 · 11 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV5.0

    26 Men

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV5.7

    The Living Christ

    1951 · 3 votes

  • TV7.2

    Stories of the Century

    1954 · 5 votes

  • TV5.3
  • TV7.0

    Blondie

    1968 · 1 votes