Robert Shayne
Acting
🎂 1900-10-04
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.
Cast credits(123)
Rudy Matthews (uncredited)
1971
Andrew McIntyre
1968
Mr. Gilroy
1968
Dave O'Bryan
1955
1951
1955
Dr. Flanigan
1958
Dowell
1960
1972
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
1961
Father Adam Wendell (uncredited)
1967
Mr. Clinton
1968
Mr. Morgan
1959
Stephen Allen
1958
Logan
1955
Colonel Marsh
1954
Reggie
1990
Mr. Fillmore
1963
Jack Stewart (uncredited)
1955
Inspector Henderson
1952
Assistant to Defense Secretary (archive footage) (uncredited)
1954
Mr. Wyatt (uncredited)
1954
Priest
1951
1957
Larry Wade (uncredited)
1959
Cmdr. William H. Buracker (uncredited)
1970
Cole Hotchkiss
1958
Mr. Gordon
1947
Refinery Executive (uncredited)
1971
Dudley Beecham
1945
Gen. Van Buskirk
1957
Dr. William Wilson
1953
Bertram Fallon
1946
Busboy (uncredited)
1944
Doctor (uncredited)
1953
Dr. Bradshaw
1956
Defense Secretary's Assistant (uncredited)
1963
Partner (uncredited)
1960
Well-Wisher at Indy Victory (uncredited)
1969
Engineer (uncredited)
1943
Captain Morgan
1945
District Attorney Martin Proctor
1956
Prof. Clifford Groves
1953
MacMahon
1944
Chet King
1946
Governor's Advisor
1964
Gary Droz
1958
Air Force General
1957
Senator
1959
James O'Neil
1947
Husband - Circus Spectator
1960
Jimmy - Aragon's Manager
1952
Insp. 'Murph' Murphy
1949
Attorney Wilson
1954
Roy Chesley
1947
West Coast Chief Agent J.G. Goff
1950
T.W. "Tom" O'Connor
1948
Maj. Nathan Stark
1952
Don Mason
1948
The Fire Maker
1958
Clark Sommers
1951
Mr. Ross
1955
Bill Tyler
1946
Lester Knight
1944
Pierre M. Morley
1956
Walter Quillen
1965
Inspector Henderson
1954
Chaplain aka 'Padre'
1944
Lt. Cassidy
1959
Dixon
1950
Prof. Bradshaw
2005
Ace Crandall
1951
Chief Agent Charles Stuart
1950
Howard Benson
1934
Watson
1953
Steve Randall
1944
John Avery
1950
Judge
1956
Ronald MacArden
1948
Victor Delmar
1960
Fred Horner
1957
Chairman Hopkins
1975
Prime Minister Treeg
1953
Dr. Richard Field
1948
Cincotta
1951
Paul Jackson / Fake John Harper
1953
Police Lieutenant
1961
The Detective
1957
1957
Stanley Brown
1950
Floyd Durant
1948
Bert Rawley
1955
Richard Marshall
1949
Inspector Henderson
1954
Brad Thomas
1946
Capt. Sid Walker
1960
Dr. Werner, Police Psychiatrist
1952
Inspector Henderson
1954
Barry Morgan
1950
Surgeon
1953
Bill Cardigan
1944
Conroy
1954
Dan Costello
1944
Capt. Burke
1952
Chief Tom Blake
1947
Jay Wingate
1950
Jared Whitney
1944
1952
Judge Leonidas K. Carter
1948
Bob Tate
1945
U.S. Marshal Frankie Wilson
1943
Jess Carter
1955
Jack Lacey
1950
Dick Meadows
1946
Charlie Munro
1960
Marshal Jim Blake
1945
Dr. David Cochran
1946
Maj. James Parker
1934
Col. Earl 'Red' Blaik
1947
(voice)
1976
Inspector Henderson
1954
Inspector Henderson
1954
Ned Kincaid
1943