
Robert Shayne
Biography
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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.
Acting (100 movies)

The Ring
1952

Without Warning!
1952

Nobody Lives Forever
1946

Christmas in Connecticut
1945

Three Strangers
1946

The Neanderthal Man
1953

The Giant Claw
1957

The Naked Monster
2005

Double Jeopardy
1955

Experiment Alcatraz
1950

Murder Is My Beat
1955

War of the Satellites
1958

Mr. Skeffington
1944

Backlash
1947

From the Terrace
1960

Criminal Lawyer
1951

Missing Women
1951

Footsteps in the Night
1957

Indestructible Man
1956

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970

The Threat
1949

Cage of Evil
1960

Make Your Own Bed
1944

I, Mobster
1959

The Face of Marble
1946

Wife Wanted
1946

Federal Man
1950

The Gentleman Tramp
1976

Welcome Stranger
1947

Customs Agent
1950

I Won't Play
1944

Behind the Mask
1946

The Blue Gardenia
1953

I Cover Big Town
1947

20,000 Eyes
1961

Hot Shots
1956

Wednesday's Child
1934

King of the Carnival
1955

Prince of Pirates
1953

Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952

Dynamite Pass
1950

Valley of the Redwoods
1960

Rumble on the Docks
1956

Let's Live a Little
1948

The Rebel Set
1959

The Spirit of West Point
1947

Keep 'Em Rolling
1934

Flight Nurse
1953

Shine on Harvest Moon
1944

The Swordsman
1948

I Ring Doorbells
1946

Wagon Wheels West
1943

Death in Small Doses
1957

Frontier Days
1945

Behind Southern Lines
1952

State Penitentiary
1950

North by Northwest
1959

Kronos
1957

The Desperado
1954

San Antonio
1945

Rider from Tucson
1950

A Tiger Walks
1964

Best Man Wins
1948

The Strange Mrs. Crane
1948

Gun to Gun
1944

Spook Chasers
1957

The Dakota Kid
1951

When You're Smiling
1950

Runaway Girl
1965

Indian Uprising
1952

Loaded Pistols
1948

Marshal of Cedar Rock
1953

Invaders from Mars
1953

Why Must I Die
1960

Teenage Cave Man
1958

The Specialist
1975

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947

Forgotten Women
1949

The Inside Story
1948

The Million Dollar Duck
1971

Oklahoma Outlaws
1943

Law of the Badlands
1945

Mission to Moscow
1943

Roaring Guns
1944

Big Timber
1950

Hollywood Canteen
1944

How to Make a Monster
1958

Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960

Trial by Trigger
1944

Dance with Me, Henry
1956

Winning
1969

Son of Flubber
1963

Superman and Scotland Yard
1954

Superman Flies Again
1954

Superman and the Jungle Devil
1954

Superman in Exile
1954

Superman's Peril
1954

The Priest Killer
1971

The Barefoot Executive
1971
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