Robert Shayne
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.
129 acting credits
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Columbo
1971
Ironside
1967
Petticoat Junction
1963
Emergency!
1972
The Donna Reed Show
1958
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Hazel
1961
Surfside 6
1960
Land of the Giants
1968
The Flash
1990
Adventures of Superman
1952
The Millionaire
1955
Navy Log
1955
Freddy's Nightmares
1988
The Third Man
1959
The Doris Day Show
1968
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
26 Men
1957
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
North by Northwest
1959
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
1955
The Living Christ
1951
Stories of the Century
1954
Blondie
1968
The Million Dollar Duck
1971
Invaders from Mars
1953
Mr. Skeffington
1944
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
From the Terrace
1960
The Barefoot Executive
1971
Winning
1969
The Blue Gardenia
1953
Hollywood Canteen
1944
Mission to Moscow
1943
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960
Kronos
1957
Three Strangers
1946
Backlash
1947
San Antonio
1945
The Giant Claw
1957
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
1974
The Neanderthal Man
1953
Son of Flubber
1963
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947
How to Make a Monster
1958
War of the Satellites
1958
Shine on Harvest Moon
1944
The Four Deuces
1975
Let's Live a Little
1948
Teenage Cave Man
1958
Prince of Pirates
1953
Indestructible Man
1956
A Tiger Walks
1964
I, Mobster
1959
Indian Uprising
1952
Welcome Stranger
1947
The Gentleman Tramp
1976
The Priest Killer
1971
Murder Is My Beat
1955
The Inside Story
1948
Death in Small Doses
1957
The Desperado
1954
Criminal Lawyer
1951
Valley of the Redwoods
1960
The Face of Marble
1946
Best Man Wins
1948
Dance with Me, Henry
1956
Wife Wanted
1946
Eyes of the Jungle
1953
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
Forgotten Women
1949
State Penitentiary
1950
Double Jeopardy
1955
Behind the Mask
1946
Marshal of Cedar Rock
1953
Why Must I Die
1960
I Cover Big Town
1947
I Ring Doorbells
1946
The Specialist
1975
The Naked Monster
2005
Hot Shots
1956
Without Warning!
1952
Dynamite Pass
1950
Superman in Exile
1954
Wagon Wheels West
1943
The Ring
1952
Missing Women
1951
The Threat
1949
Behind Southern Lines
1952
Trial by Trigger
1944
Superman's Peril
1954
Spook Chasers
1957
Cool Breeze
1972
Roaring Guns
1944
Experiment Alcatraz
1950
Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954
The Rebel Set
1959
Big Timber
1950
Law of the Badlands
1945
Runaway Girl
1965
Flight Nurse
1953
Federal Man
1950
The Dakota Kid
1951
Cage of Evil
1960
Loaded Pistols
1948
Oklahoma Outlaws
1943
The Swordsman
1948
Wednesday's Child
1934
Make Your Own Bed
1944
20,000 Eyes
1961
Rider from Tucson
1950
Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952
Gun to Gun
1944
Footsteps in the Night
1957
The Strange Mrs. Crane
1948
Superman and the Jungle Devil
1954
Frontier Days
1945
Rumble on the Docks
1956
Keep 'Em Rolling
1934
When You're Smiling
1950
Customs Agent
1950
I Won't Play
1944
Shaggy
1948
The Spirit of West Point
1947
Superman Flies Again
1954
Superman and Scotland Yard
1954
King of the Carnival
1955