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