Robert Shayne

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1900-10-04
  • event Death Date 1992-11-29
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 2.9
  • info Birth Place Yonkers, New York, USA
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4.7

The Ring

1952-09-26

6

Without Warning!

1952-05-08

6.2

Nobody Lives Forever

1946-11-01

7

Christmas in Connecticut

1945-07-27

6.3

Three Strangers

1946-01-28

4.1

The Neanderthal Man

1953-06-19

4.8

The Giant Claw

1957-06-01

4

The Naked Monster

2005-04-22

5.3

Double Jeopardy

1955-06-23

6.5

Experiment Alcatraz

1950-11-21

5.8

Murder Is My Beat

1955-02-27

5.2

War of the Satellites

1958-05-18

6.7

Mr. Skeffington

1944-05-25

6.7

From the Terrace

1960-07-15

4.9

Backlash

1947-03-01

6.7

Criminal Lawyer

1951-08-23

6.2

Missing Women

1951-02-23

5.3

Footsteps in the Night

1957-04-14

4.3

Indestructible Man

1956-03-24

7.2

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970-01-26

5.9

The Threat

1949-12-01

5.5

Cage of Evil

1960-07-01

7

Horrible Horror

1986-01-01

5.8

Make Your Own Bed

1944-06-10

6.5

I, Mobster

1959-02-01

4.4

The Face of Marble

1946-01-19

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Eyes of the Jungle

1953-07-01

6.5

Wife Wanted

1946-11-02

5

Federal Man

1950-06-21

6.6

The Gentleman Tramp

1976-10-10

6.6

Welcome Stranger

1947-06-13

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Customs Agent

1950-05-18

5.8

I Won't Play

1944-11-11

4.6

Behind the Mask

1946-05-25

6.5

The Blue Gardenia

1953-03-20

6

I Cover Big Town

1947-02-27

3.5

20,000 Eyes

1961-06-14

7

Hot Shots

1956-12-23

3

Wednesday's Child

1934-10-26

0

King of the Carnival

1955-06-27

7.5

Prince of Pirates

1953-03-07

0

Mr. Walkie Talkie

1952-11-28

5.8

Dynamite Pass

1950-03-23

5

Valley of the Redwoods

1960-05-08

5.7

Rumble on the Docks

1956-12-01

6.3

Let's Live a Little

1948-12-09

2.8

The Rebel Set

1959-06-28

0

The Spirit of West Point

1947-10-03

6

Keep 'Em Rolling

1934-03-02

5.5

Flight Nurse

1953-11-15

6

Shine on Harvest Moon

1944-03-10

0

The Swordsman

1948-01-02

0

I Ring Doorbells

1946-02-28

4

Wagon Wheels West

1943-10-30

5

Death in Small Doses

1957-09-15

4

Frontier Days

1945-12-08

0

Behind Southern Lines

1952-11-02

6.5

State Penitentiary

1950-06-08

8

North by Northwest

1959-07-08

5.6

Kronos

1957-03-31

6.6

The Desperado

1954-06-20

5.7

San Antonio

1945-12-29

6

Rider from Tucson

1950-06-07

5.7

A Tiger Walks

1964-04-12

7

Best Man Wins

1948-05-06

6

The Strange Mrs. Crane

1948-10-07

0

Gun to Gun

1944-01-08

5.5

Spook Chasers

1957-06-02

5

The Dakota Kid

1951-07-01

0

When You're Smiling

1950-08-30

0

Runaway Girl

1965-05-10

6.2

Indian Uprising

1952-01-02

5.7

Loaded Pistols

1948-12-15

5.5

Marshal of Cedar Rock

1953-02-01

5.9

Invaders from Mars

1953-04-22

5

Why Must I Die

1960-06-01

3.9

Teenage Cave Man

1958-07-01

3.5

The Specialist

1975-05-01

6

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

1947-03-01

0

Forgotten Women

1949-07-17

6.5

The Inside Story

1948-03-14

5.7

The Million Dollar Duck

1971-06-30

5

Oklahoma Outlaws

1943-09-14

0

Law of the Badlands

1945-04-14

5.2

Mission to Moscow

1943-04-29

0

Roaring Guns

1944-02-19

0

Big Timber

1950-09-10

7.3

Hollywood Canteen

1944-12-15

5.6

How to Make a Monster

1958-07-01

0

Trader Tom of the China Seas

1954-01-06

6.1

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

1960-01-21

2

Trial by Trigger

1944-05-27

5.1

Dance with Me, Henry

1956-12-17

5.9

Winning

1969-05-22

7.8

Emergency!

1972-01-22

5

The Millionaire

1955-01-19

6.7

Adventures of Superman

1952-09-19

4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951-04-15

4.5

Navy Log

1955-09-20

4.2

26 Men

1957-11-01

6.1

The Donna Reed Show

1958-09-24

6.4

The Third Man

1959-10-02

4.5

Sheena: Queen of the Jungle

1955-09-01

6.7

77 Sunset Strip

1958-10-10

5.8

Petticoat Junction

1963-09-24

7.5

The Flash

1990-09-20

7

Hazel

1961-09-28

6.6

Land of the Giants

1968-09-22

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

6.9

Ironside

1967-03-28

5

Surfside 6

1960-10-06

6.5

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955-10-05

3.6

The Doris Day Show

1968-09-24

3.6

The Doris Day Show

1968-09-24

5

The Living Christ

1951-01-07

5.7

Stories of the Century

1954-01-23

8.1

Columbo

1971-09-15

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27