Konstantin Shayne


Actor

Biography

Konstantin Shayne was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Shayne's career in acting began with his roles in various films like the musical comedy "Paris Honeymoon" (1939) with Bing Crosby, "Five Graves to Cairo" (1943) and the drama "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943) with Gary Cooper. He also appeared in the Walter Huston biopic "Mission to Moscow" (1943), the Cary Grant dr...

Biography

Konstantin Shayne was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Shayne's career in acting began with his roles in various films like the musical comedy "Paris Honeymoon" (1939) with Bing Crosby, "Five Graves to Cairo" (1943) and the drama "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943) with Gary Cooper. He also appeared in the Walter Huston biopic "Mission to Moscow" (1943), the Cary Grant drama "None But the Lonely Heart" (1944) and the Humphrey Bogart drama "Passage to Marseille" (1944). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the forties, appearing in the mystery "The Falcon in Hollywood" (1944) with Tom Conway, the Nils Asther horror film "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1944) and "Escape in the Fog" (1945). He also appeared in "The Stranger" (1946) with Edward G Robinson, "Christmas Eve" (1947) and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947). Nearing the end of his career, he tackled roles in "Angel on the Amazon" (1948), "Cry of the City" (1948) and the drama "The Red Danube" (1949) with Walter Pidgeon. He also appeared in the spy picture "I Was a Communist For the FBI" (1951) with Frank Lovejoy and "Treasure of the Golden Condor" (1953) with Cornel Wilde. Shayne more recently acted in the James Stewart dramatic adaptation "Vertigo" (1958). Shayne passed away in November 1974 at the age of 86.

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Stranger, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) There Is No Franz Kindler! Director and star Orson Welles opens introducing Edward G. Robinson as Nazi hunter Wilson, in Vienna, demanding the release of low-value prisoner Meinke (Konstantin Shayne), in hopes he’ll lead him to a major fugitive, quickly to South America where Lillian Molieri assists, John Brown the photographer, in The Stranger, 1946, also starring Loretta Young.
Stranger, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) God's Will Be Done Impressive single take by director and star Orson Welles, as incognito Nazi fugitive Kindler, posing as a Vermont teacher, in the woods to meet his old flunkie Meinke (Konstantin Shayne), who claims he's converted to Christianity, and who has been followed, in The Stranger, 1946.
None But The Lonely Heart (1944) -- (Movie Clip) What Are Them Pills For? London pawn shop proprietor "Ma" Mott (Ethel Barrymore in her Academy Award winning role) reveals her illness to friend Ike (Konstantin Shayne), then tangles again with her ne'er-do-well son Ernie (Cary Grant), in None But The Lonely Heart, 1944, from the Richard Llewellyn novel.
Stranger, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Harper School For Boys After events abroad, fugitive Nazi toadie Meinke (Konstantin Shayne) arrives in Harper, Vermont, tracked by war crime prosecutor Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), pursuing bigger fish, early in The Stranger, 1946, starring and directed by Orson Welles.
I Was A Communist For The F.B.I. (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Who Is A Fanatic? Having learned that Cvetic (Frank Lovejoy) has his family convinced he's a communist, he calls Crowley (Richard Webb) so we'll be sure he's really FBI, then meets caviar-chomping red Blandon (James Millican) and V.I.P. Eisler (Konstantin Shayne), in I Was A Communist For The F.B.I., 1951.

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