Cast

Robert Shayne

Acting

Cast

Robert Shayne

Known for

Acting

Born

1900-10-04

From

Yonkers, New York, USA

Died

1992-11-29

Also known as Robert Shaen Dawe, Robert Shane, Bob Shayne

Biography

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.

Robert Shayne

Robert Shayne

Biography

North by Northwest

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Federal Man

Mr. Skeffington

Missing Women

Double Jeopardy

The Million Dollar Duck

Shaggy

The Specialist

The Barefoot Executive

Son of Flubber

Wife Wanted

Welcome Stranger

Hot Shots

Christmas in Connecticut

The Blue Gardenia

A Tiger Walks

From the Terrace

War of the Satellites

How to Make a Monster

Hollywood Canteen

Nobody Lives Forever

Invaders from Mars

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

San Antonio

King of the Carnival

The Giant Claw

The Priest Killer

The Four Deuces

Winning

Cool Breeze

Three Strangers

Teenage Cave Man

Mission to Moscow

Indestructible Man

Death in Small Doses

The Naked Monster

The Threat

Make Your Own Bed

Dance with Me, Henry

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

The Rebel Set

The Face of Marble

Rumble on the Docks

Prince of Pirates

Loaded Pistols

I, Mobster

Murder Is My Beat

Marshal of Cedar Rock

Footsteps in the Night

Why Must I Die

Wagon Wheels West

Shine on Harvest Moon

Mr. Walkie Talkie

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Cage of Evil

The Neanderthal Man

Dynamite Pass

The Gentleman Tramp

State Penitentiary

Superman's Peril

The Ring

Kronos

The Strange Mrs. Crane

Backlash

Flight Nurse

The Desperado

I Cover Big Town

Superman in Exile

Customs Agent

Indian Uprising

Rider from Tucson

Let's Live a Little

Behind the Mask

Experiment Alcatraz

Behind Southern Lines

Criminal Lawyer