Konstantin Shayne

Konstantin Shayne

Born: November 29, 1888
Died: November 15, 1974
in Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
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Konstantin Shayne (November 29, 1888 – November 15, 1974) was an actor from the Russian Empire who emigrated to the United States.

Born in Kharkov, Russian Empire, to the family of a Jewish actor Veniamin Olkenitsky-Nikulin, he was the brother of actress Tamara Shayne and Russian writers Lev Nikulin and Yuriy Nikulin.[1] The First World War intervened before he could join the Moscow Arts Theatre, and during the conflict he fought with General Wrangel and the White Armies. Shayne was married two times and he also had children.

As an actor, Konstantin Shayne performed in movies such as None but the Lonely Heart (1944) and The Stranger (1946), starring (and directed by) Orson Welles. He performed in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) which featured Danny Kaye in the lead role. His performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) was cut from the final release. In his last film appearance Shayne dominates two minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo, playing the old bookseller Pop Leibel.

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Title: The Rogues
Character: Commandant
Released: September 13, 1964
Type: TV
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Dr. Philip Fletcher
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: TV
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: The Gardener
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: TV
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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Vertigo
Title: Vertigo
Character: Pop Leibel
Released: May 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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The Price of Fear
Title: The Price of Fear
Character: Bolasny
Released: March 13, 1956
Type: Movie
A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Customs Officer Trevitch
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Treasure of the Golden Condor
Title: Treasure of the Golden Condor
Character: Father Benoit
Released: February 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
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5 Fingers
Title: 5 Fingers
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Character: Peter Hulderman
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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I Was a Communist for the FBI
Title: I Was a Communist for the FBI
Character: Gerhardt Eisler
Released: May 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
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The Red Danube
Title: The Red Danube
Character: Professor Serge Bruloff
Released: October 14, 1949
Type: Movie
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
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Angel on the Amazon
Title: Angel on the Amazon
Character: Dr. Jungmeyer
Released: November 1, 1948
Type: Movie
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
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To the Victor
Title: To the Victor
Character: Pablo
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
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Cry of the City
Title: Cry of the City
Character: Dr. Veroff
Released: September 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
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Night Wind
Title: Night Wind
Character: Dr. Ulding
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Gustav Reichman
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
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Song of Love
Title: Song of Love
Character: Reinecke
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character: Peter van Hoorn
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Dangerous Millions
Title: Dangerous Millions
Character: Professor Jan Schuyler
Released: November 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Konrad Meinike
Released: July 2, 1946
Type: Movie
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
Title: Her Highness and the Bellboy
Character: Yanos Van Lankovitz
Released: November 11, 1945
Type: Movie
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Schiller
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Title: The Man in Half Moon Street
Character: Dr. B.A. Vishanoff
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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The Falcon in Hollywood
Title: The Falcon in Hollywood
Character: Alec Hoffman
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
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None But the Lonely Heart
Title: None But the Lonely Heart
Character: Ike Weber
Released: October 17, 1944
Type: Movie
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
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Till We Meet Again
Title: Till We Meet Again
Character: Major Krupp
Released: August 30, 1944
Type: Movie
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
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The Seventh Cross
Title: The Seventh Cross
Character: Fuellgrabe
Released: July 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character: Karkov
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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Five Graves to Cairo
Title: Five Graves to Cairo
Character: Maj. Von Buelow (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Mr. Nikolai Bukharin (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Headwaiter
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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On Your Toes
Title: On Your Toes
Character: First Assassin
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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King of Alcatraz
Title: King of Alcatraz
Character: Murok
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Title: Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Character: Plane Saboteur
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.