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.
105 movies · 24 shows
The Naked Monster
2005·4.4
The Gentleman Tramp
1976·7.1
The Four Deuces
1975·5.0
The Specialist
1975·4.7
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
1974·4.9
Cool Breeze
1972·5.1
The Priest Killer
1971·0.0
The Million Dollar Duck
1971·5.9
The Barefoot Executive
1971·5.6
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970·7.2
Winning
1969·6.0
Runaway Girl
1965·8.0
A Tiger Walks
1964·5.8
Son of Flubber
1963·6.1
20,000 Eyes
1961·5.3
From the Terrace
1960·6.6
Cage of Evil
1960·5.8
Why Must I Die
1960·5.3
Valley of the Redwoods
1960·6.5
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960·6.3
North by Northwest
1959·8.0
The Rebel Set
1959·3.3
I, Mobster
1959·6.6
Teenage Cave Man
1958·4.0
How to Make a Monster
1958·5.7
War of the Satellites
1958·5.2
Death in Small Doses
1957·5.1
Spook Chasers
1957·4.9
The Giant Claw
1957·4.8
Footsteps in the Night
1957·5.6
Kronos
1957·5.7
Hot Shots
1956·6.3
Dance with Me, Henry
1956·5.2
Rumble on the Docks
1956·6.2
Indestructible Man
1956·4.4
King of the Carnival
1955·9.0
Double Jeopardy
1955·5.2
Murder Is My Beat
1955·6.0
Superman Flies Again
1954·7.7
Superman and the Jungle Devil
1954·8.7
Superman in Exile
1954·8.3
Superman's Peril
1954·0.0
Superman and Scotland Yard
1954·7.3
The Desperado
1954·7.2
Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954·10.0
Flight Nurse
1953·6.0
Eyes of the Jungle
1953·8.0
The Neanderthal Man
1953·4.3
Invaders from Mars
1953·5.9
The Blue Gardenia
1953·6.5
Prince of Pirates
1953·8.3
Marshal of Cedar Rock
1953·6.3
Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952·6.5
Behind Southern Lines
1952·8.0
The Ring
1952·5.1
Without Warning!
1952·6.0
Indian Uprising
1952·6.5
Criminal Lawyer
1951·7.4
The Dakota Kid
1951·7.5
Missing Women
1951·6.6
Experiment Alcatraz
1950·6.9
Big Timber
1950·10.0
When You're Smiling
1950·9.0
Federal Man
1950·6.5
State Penitentiary
1950·7.3
Rider from Tucson
1950·7.0
Customs Agent
1950·10.0
Dynamite Pass
1950·6.1
The Threat
1949·6.0
Forgotten Women
1949·7.0
Loaded Pistols
1948·6.5
Let's Live a Little
1948·7.0
The Strange Mrs. Crane
1948·6.3
Shaggy
1948·10.0
Best Man Wins
1948·7.0
The Inside Story
1948·6.6
The Swordsman
1948·7.3
The Spirit of West Point
1947·10.0
Welcome Stranger
1947·6.9
Backlash
1947·4.8
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947·6.4
I Cover Big Town
1947·8.0
Wife Wanted
1946·7.8
Nobody Lives Forever
1946·6.4
Behind the Mask
1946·5.5
I Ring Doorbells
1946·7.0
Three Strangers
1946·6.4
The Face of Marble
1946·4.6
San Antonio
1945·6.1
Frontier Days
1945·6.3
Christmas in Connecticut
1945·7.0
Law of the Badlands
1945·10.0
Hollywood Canteen
1944·7.3
I Won't Play
1944·6.4
Make Your Own Bed
1944·6.0
Trial by Trigger
1944·5.7
Mr. Skeffington
1944·6.8
Shine on Harvest Moon
1944·6.8
Roaring Guns
1944·8.0
Gun to Gun
1944·8.0
Wagon Wheels West
1943·7.0
Oklahoma Outlaws
1943·6.3
Mission to Moscow
1943·5.7
Wednesday's Child
1934·3.8
Keep 'Em Rolling
1934·6.3