Acting

Konstantin Shayne

Born November 29, 1888 · Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

Died November 15, 1974 · aged 85

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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…

Known For

Vertigo

Vertigo · 1958

MovieMysteryRomance

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.

Passage to Marseille

Passage to Marseille · 1944

Passage to Marseille

MovieAdventureWar

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls · 1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls

MovieWarRomance

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.

Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy · 1945

Her Highness and the Bellboy

MovieComedyRomance

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.

The Stranger

The Stranger · 1946

MovieThrillerCrime

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.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

MovieComedyFantasy

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.

5 Fingers

5 Fingers · 1952

MovieThrillerDrama

During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo · 1943

Five Graves to Cairo

MovieWarThriller

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

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Vertigo

Vertigo · 1958

MovieMysteryRomance

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.

Pop Leibel

Passage to Marseille

Passage to Marseille · 1944

Passage to Marseille

MovieAdventureWar

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls · 1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls

MovieWarRomance

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.

Karkov

Her Highness and the Bellboy

Her Highness and the Bellboy · 1945

Her Highness and the Bellboy

MovieComedyRomance

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.

Yanos Van Lankovitz

The Stranger

The Stranger · 1946

MovieThrillerCrime

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.

Konrad Meinike

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

MovieComedyFantasy

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.

Peter van Hoorn

5 Fingers

5 Fingers · 1952

MovieThrillerDrama

During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo · 1943

Five Graves to Cairo

MovieWarThriller

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

Maj. Von Buelow (uncredited)

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross · 1944

The Seventh Cross

MovieDramaThriller

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 attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.

Fuellgrabe

The Unknown Man

The Unknown Man · 1951

The Unknown Man

MovieCrimeDrama

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Peter Hulderman

Cry of the City

Cry of the City · 1948

Cry of the City

MovieCrimeDrama

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?

Dr. Veroff

The Red Danube

The Red Danube · 1949

A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

Professor Serge Bruloff

Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow · 1943

Mission to Moscow

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.

Mr. Nikolai Bukharin (uncredited)

Song of Love

Song of Love · 1947

MovieDramaMusic

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.

Reinecke

Angel on the Amazon

Angel on the Amazon · 1948

Angel on the Amazon

MovieAdventureRomance

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.

Dr. Jungmeyer

Escape in the Fog

Escape in the Fog · 1945

Escape in the Fog

MovieThrillerCrime

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.

Schiller

The Price of Fear

The Price of Fear · 1956

The Price of Fear

MovieCrimeDrama

A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.

Bolasny

None But the Lonely Heart

None But the Lonely Heart · 1944

None But the Lonely Heart

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Ike Weber

On Your Toes

On Your Toes · 1939

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

First Assassin

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve · 1947

MovieComedyDrama

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?

Gustav Reichman

To the Victor

To the Victor · 1948

MovieDramaMusic

An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

Pablo

Treasure of the Golden Condor

Treasure of the Golden Condor · 1953

Treasure of the Golden Condor

A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.

Father Benoit

Till We Meet Again

Till We Meet Again · 1944

Till We Meet Again

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.

Major Krupp

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Bulldog Drummond in Africa · 1938

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

MovieActionAdventure

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.

Plane Saboteur

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits · 1963

The Outer Limits

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

The Gardener

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents · 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

SeriesMysteryDrama

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Customs Officer Trevitch

The Rogues

The Rogues · 1964

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

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.

Commandant