Above, a Life Magazine photo of actors Robert Shayne and Nancy Olson rehearsing for summer stock production of the play "For Love or Money" at the Laguna Playhouse, by famed photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1949.Today is the 109th birthday for Metropolis's top cop: Bob "Inspector Henderson" Shayne.
According to the George Reeves Calendar:
On this day, October 4...
1900: Robert Shayne was born in Yonkers, New York as Robert Shaen Dawe. Bob was raised in Washington, DC. He later attended Boston University and Chicago University, still later working as a newspaper reporter in Florida. Bob made his stage debut in 1927 in "Is Zat So?" with the Jefferson Stock Company of Birmingham, Alabama. In 1931 he made his Broadway debut in "The Rap". After 97 motion picture credits and countless television appearances, Bob's final role was the part of Reggie, a blind news vender in The Flash on CBS in 1991.
Bob's daughter Stephanie said in her G-FAN interview ("Victim of the Giant Claw") that the affection of his fans literally gave her father some extra years. Bob passed away in November 1992 at age 92.
Stephanie and her mother Betty represented Bob in July 2001 at the "Superman Week" ceremony at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the luncheon that followed.
A toast to Robert "Bob" Shayne on his 109th birthday!
UPDATE: I sent a link to this blog to Bob's daughter Stephanie and, also, posted it on Facebook. I received this from Stephanie at Facebook:
Thank You, Armand! This photo is great. I've never seen it before. Wonderful!
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