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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.
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23 August 1951
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
01 March 1947
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer.
26 September 1952
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
14 September 1943
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
14 April 1945
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
20 June 1954
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s.
27 July 1945
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane.
08 May 1952
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of gas
01 December 1949
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
11 November 1944
In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities.
19 January 1946
The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death.
08 December 1945
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
15 December 1948
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
23 March 1950
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.
30 August 1950
When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline concerns the misadventures of Texan Gerald Durham (Jerome Courtland), who arrives in the Big City to learn the ropes of the music business.
17 July 1949
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar.
02 January 1952
It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Government land thereby keeping the peace with the Apaches.
01 June 1960
A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
07 March 1953
In a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish.
06 August 1959
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
06 May 1948
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
23 February 1951
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
01 July 1953
Ramar of the Jungle encounters a holy man who warns him of great danger. His friend Professor Howard is near death, cursed by the Mark of Shitan.
26 January 1970
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end.
01 February 1953
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason.
01 July 1958
Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone.
01 July 1960
While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze.
14 April 1957
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
16 January 1963
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber.
10 June 1944
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney.
27 June 1955
Treasury agents go after a ring of counterfeiters operating out of a traveling carnival.
01 March 1947
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
07 June 1950
In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Robert Shayne), Gypsy Avery (Veda Ann Borg) and Jackson (Marshall Reed) hire Bob Rankin (Douglas Fowley') to kidnap Tug's sweetheart Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley).
15 November 1953
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
14 June 1961
An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.
21 June 1950
A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
22 May 1969
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500.
14 March 1948
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping.
07 October 1948
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane.
30 October 1943
In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.
10 March 1944
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
02 June 1957
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
01 February 1959
The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.
30 June 1971
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
25 May 1944
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
02 November 1946
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people.
09 April 1953
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
28 February 1946
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright.
19 February 1944
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
31 March 1957
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
01 June 1957
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
26 October 1934
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
08 June 1950
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
01 November 1954
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #47 ("The Golden Vulture"), #44 ("The Semi-Private Eye"), and #32 ("The Defeat of Superman").
09 December 1948
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate .
18 May 1958
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
27 May 1944
California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
06 January 1954
In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in Burmatra and its neighbors.
20 March 1953
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
