Robert Shayne
Acting • Born 1900-10-04 – Died 1992-11-29
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.
Filmography
131 credits
The Ring
Movie • 1952
Jimmy - Aragon's Manager
Without Warning!
Movie • 1952
Dr. Werner, Police Psychiatrist
Nobody Lives Forever
Movie • 1946
Chet King
Christmas in Connecticut
Movie • 1945
Dudley Beecham
Three Strangers
Movie • 1946
Bertram Fallon
The Neanderthal Man
Movie • 1953
Prof. Clifford Groves
The Giant Claw
Movie • 1957
Gen. Van Buskirk
The Naked Monster
Movie • 2005
Prof. Bradshaw
Double Jeopardy
Movie • 1955
Mr. Ross
Experiment Alcatraz
Movie • 1950
Barry Morgan
Murder Is My Beat
Movie • 1955
Bert Rawley
War of the Satellites
Movie • 1958
Cole Hotchkiss
Mr. Skeffington
Movie • 1944
MacMahon
From the Terrace
Movie • 1960
Partner (uncredited)
Backlash
Movie • 1947
James O'Neil
Criminal Lawyer
Movie • 1951
Clark Sommers
Missing Women
Movie • 1951
Cincotta
Footsteps in the Night
Movie • 1957
Fred Horner
Indestructible Man
Movie • 1956
Dr. Bradshaw
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Cmdr. William H. Buracker (uncredited)
The Threat
Movie • 1949
Insp. 'Murph' Murphy
Cage of Evil
Movie • 1960
Victor Delmar
Make Your Own Bed
Movie • 1944
Lester Knight
I, Mobster
Movie • 1959
Senator
The Face of Marble
Movie • 1946
Dr. David Cochran
Eyes of the Jungle
Movie • 1953
Watson
Wife Wanted
Movie • 1946
Bill Tyler
Federal Man
Movie • 1950
Chief Agent Charles Stuart
The Gentleman Tramp
Movie • 1976
(voice)
Welcome Stranger
Movie • 1947
Roy Chesley
Customs Agent
Movie • 1950
West Coast Chief Agent J.G. Goff
I Won't Play
Movie • 1944
Chaplain aka 'Padre'
Behind the Mask
Movie • 1946
Brad Thomas
The Blue Gardenia
Movie • 1953
Doctor (uncredited)
I Cover Big Town
Movie • 1947
Chief Tom Blake
20,000 Eyes
Movie • 1961
Police Lieutenant
Hot Shots
Movie • 1956
Pierre M. Morley
Wednesday's Child
Movie • 1934
Howard Benson
King of the Carnival
Movie • 1955
Jess Carter
Prince of Pirates
Movie • 1953
Prime Minister Treeg
Mr. Walkie Talkie
Movie • 1952
Capt. Burke
Dynamite Pass
Movie • 1950
Jay Wingate
Valley of the Redwoods
Movie • 1960
Capt. Sid Walker
Rumble on the Docks
Movie • 1956
Judge
Let's Live a Little
Movie • 1948
Dr. Richard Field
The Rebel Set
Movie • 1959
Lt. Cassidy
The Spirit of West Point
Movie • 1947
Col. Earl 'Red' Blaik
Keep 'Em Rolling
Movie • 1934
Maj. James Parker
Flight Nurse
Movie • 1953
Surgeon
Shine on Harvest Moon
Movie • 1944
Dan Costello
The Swordsman
Movie • 1948
Ronald MacArden
I Ring Doorbells
Movie • 1946
Dick Meadows
Wagon Wheels West
Movie • 1943
U.S. Marshal Frankie Wilson
Death in Small Doses
Movie • 1957
Frank Ainsley (uncredited)
Frontier Days
Movie • 1945
Marshal Jim Blake
Behind Southern Lines
Movie • 1952
State Penitentiary
Movie • 1950
Stanley Brown
North by Northwest
Movie • 1959
Larry Wade (uncredited)
Kronos
Movie • 1957
Air Force General
The Desperado
Movie • 1954
Attorney Wilson
San Antonio
Movie • 1945
Captain Morgan
Rider from Tucson
Movie • 1950
John Avery
A Tiger Walks
Movie • 1964
Governor's Advisor
Best Man Wins
Movie • 1948
Judge Leonidas K. Carter
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Movie • 1948
Floyd Durant
Gun to Gun
Movie • 1944
Steve Randall
Spook Chasers
Movie • 1957
The Detective
The Dakota Kid
Movie • 1951
Ace Crandall
When You're Smiling
Movie • 1950
Jack Lacey
Runaway Girl
Movie • 1965
Walter Quillen
Indian Uprising
Movie • 1952
Maj. Nathan Stark
Loaded Pistols
Movie • 1948
Don Mason
Marshal of Cedar Rock
Movie • 1953
Paul Jackson / Fake John Harper
Invaders from Mars
Movie • 1953
Dr. William Wilson
Why Must I Die
Movie • 1960
Charlie Munro
Teenage Cave Man
Movie • 1958
The Fire Maker
The Specialist
Movie • 1975
Chairman Hopkins
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Movie • 1947
Mr. Gordon
Forgotten Women
Movie • 1949
Richard Marshall
The Inside Story
Movie • 1948
T.W. "Tom" O'Connor
The Million Dollar Duck
Movie • 1971
Refinery Executive (uncredited)
Oklahoma Outlaws
Movie • 1943
Ned Kincaid
Law of the Badlands
Movie • 1945
Bob Tate
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Engineer (uncredited)
Roaring Guns
Movie • 1944
Jared Whitney
Big Timber
Movie • 1950
Dixon
Hollywood Canteen
Movie • 1944
Busboy (uncredited)
How to Make a Monster
Movie • 1958
Gary Droz
Trader Tom of the China Seas
Movie • 1954
Conroy
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Movie • 1960
Husband - Circus Spectator
Trial by Trigger
Movie • 1944
Bill Cardigan
Dance with Me, Henry
Movie • 1956
District Attorney Martin Proctor
Winning
Movie • 1969
Well-Wisher at Indy Victory (uncredited)
Son of Flubber
Movie • 1963
Defense Secretary's Assistant (uncredited)
Superman and Scotland Yard
Movie • 1954
Inspector Henderson
Superman Flies Again
Movie • 1954
Inspector Henderson
Superman and the Jungle Devil
Movie • 1954
Inspector Henderson
Superman in Exile
Movie • 1954
Inspector Henderson
Superman's Peril
Movie • 1954
Inspector Henderson
The Priest Killer
Movie • 1971
Father Adam Wendell
The Barefoot Executive
Movie • 1971
Sponsor
The Four Deuces
Movie • 1975
Vince
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
Movie • 1970
U.S. Senator (uncredited)
Shaggy
Movie • 1948
Bob Calvin
Emergency!
TV • 1972
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Jack Stewart (uncredited)
Adventures of Superman
TV • 1952
Inspector Henderson
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV • 1951
Navy Log
TV • 1955
26 Men
TV • 1957
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Dr. Flanigan
The Third Man
TV • 1959
Mr. Morgan
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
TV • 1955
Logan
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Stephen Allen
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Mr. Fillmore
The Flash
TV • 1990
Reggie
Hazel
TV • 1961
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Land of the Giants
TV • 1968
Mr. Clinton
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Assistant to Defense Secretary (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ironside
TV • 1967
Father Adam Wendell (uncredited)
Surfside 6
TV • 1960
Dowell
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Dave O'Bryan
The Doris Day Show
TV • 1968
Andrew McIntyre
The Doris Day Show
TV • 1968
Mr. Gilroy
The Living Christ
TV • 1951
Priest
Stories of the Century
TV • 1954
Colonel Marsh
Columbo
TV • 1971
Rudy Matthews (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Mr. Wyatt (uncredited)
Blondie
TV • 1968
Freddy's Nightmares
TV • 1988
The Minister
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Husband in Audience (uncredited)