
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
Acting · 129

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