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Robert Shayne (October 4, 1900 β 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.
Filmography
all 129
Movies 106
TV Shows 23
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The Naked Monster (2005)
The Flash (1990)
Horrible Horror (1986)
The Specialist (1975)
Columbo (1971)
The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Winning (1969)
The Doris Day Show (1968)
Land of the Giants (1968)
Ironside (1967)
Runaway Girl (1965)
A Tiger Walks (1964)
Petticoat Junction (1963)
Son of Flubber (1963)
Hazel (1961)
20,000 Eyes (1961)
Surfside 6 (1960)
Assignment: Underwater (1960)
From the Terrace (1960)
Cage of Evil (1960)
Why Must I Die (1960)
Valley of the Redwoods (1960)
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
The Third Man (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Rebel Set (1959)
I, Mobster (1959)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
The Donna Reed Show (1958)
Teenage Cave Man (1958)
How to Make a Monster (1958)
War of the Satellites (1958)
Magic Highway U.S.A. (1958)
Spook Chasers (1957)
The Giant Claw (1957)
Footsteps in the Night (1957)
Kronos (1957)
Hot Shots (1956)
Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
Indestructible Man (1956)
Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
Navy Log (1955)
King of the Carnival (1955)
Double Jeopardy (1955)
Murder Is My Beat (1955)
The Millionaire (1955)
Superman Flies Again (1954)
Superman's Peril (1954)
Superman in Exile (1954)
Superman and the Jungle Devil (1954)
The Wonderful World of Disney (1954)
Superman and Scotland Yard (1954)
The Desperado (1954)
Stories of the Century (1954)
Flight Nurse (1953)
The Neanderthal Man (1953)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Prince of Pirates (1953)
Marshal of Cedar Rock (1953)
Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952)
Behind Southern Lines (1952)
The Ring (1952)
Adventures of Superman (1952)
Without Warning! (1952)
Indian Uprising (1952)
Criminal Lawyer (1951)
The Dakota Kid (1951)
Missing Women (1951)
Experiment Alcatraz (1950)
When You're Smiling (1950)
Federal Man (1950)
State Penitentiary (1950)
Rider from Tucson (1950)
Customs Agent (1950)
Dynamite Pass (1950)
The Threat (1949)
Law of the Barbary Coast (1949)
Forgotten Women (1949)
Loaded Pistols (1948)
Let's Live a Little (1948)
The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)
Best Man Wins (1948)
The Inside Story (1948)
The Swordsman (1948)
The Spirit of West Point (1947)
Welcome Stranger (1947)
Backlash (1947)
I Cover Big Town (1947)
Wife Wanted (1946)
Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
Behind the Mask (1946)
I Ring Doorbells (1946)
Three Strangers (1946)
The Face of Marble (1946)
San Antonio (1945)
Frontier Days (1945)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Law of the Badlands (1945)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
I Won't Play (1944)
Make Your Own Bed (1944)
Trial by Trigger (1944)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Roaring Guns (1944)
Gun to Gun (1944)
Wagon Wheels West (1943)
Oklahoma Outlaws (1943)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
The Big Courtship (1937)
Wednesday's Child (1934)
Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1900-10-04
Deathday1992-11-29 (92 years old)
Birth PlaceYonkers, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsRobert Shaen Dawe, Robert Shane, Bob Shayne
AwardsInkpot Award
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