Robert Shayne
Acting
Born 1900-10-04
Died 1992-11-29
Yonkers, New York, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Columbo
Ironside
The Donna Reed Show
Emergency!
Petticoat Junction
Adventures of Superman
Navy Log
Surfside 6
77 Sunset Strip
The Flash
Hazel
Land of the Giants
Freddy's Nightmares
The Doris Day Show
The Millionaire
North by Northwest
The Third Man
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Wonderful World of Disney
Screen Director's Playhouse
26 Men
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
The Living Christ
Stories of the Century
Mr. Skeffington
The Million Dollar Duck
Missing Women
Invaders from Mars
From the Terrace
Christmas in Connecticut
The Blue Gardenia
Son of Flubber
The Priest Killer
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
The Barefoot Executive
Winning
Federal Man
Blondie
The Giant Claw
A Tiger Walks
Double Jeopardy
Three Strangers
How to Make a Monster
Mr. Walkie Talkie
San Antonio
War of the Satellites
Welcome Stranger
Cool Breeze
Kronos
Hollywood Canteen
Wagon Wheels West
Why Must I Die
Teenage Cave Man
Dance with Me, Henry
Hot Shots
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
The Rebel Set
Shine on Harvest Moon
Shaggy
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