Konstantin Shayne

Konstantin Shayne (born Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski; Russian: Константин Вениаминович Олькеницкий, November 29, 1888 – November 15, 1974) was a Russian-American actor.

Konstantin Shayne
Shayne in The Stranger (1946)
Born	Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski (1888-11-29)November 29, 1888 Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (modern Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Died	November 15, 1974(1974-11-15) (aged 85) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1938–65
Spouses	Olga Valierievna Korbut Dashkevitch ​ ​ (m. 1934; died 1941)​ Marjorie Pearl Harris ​ ​ (m. 1944)​
Children	4
Family	Tamara Shayne (sister)

Biography

Shayne was born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) to the family of Veniamin Olkenitsky-Nikulin, a Jewish actor. His siblings were actress Tamara Shayne and writers Lev and Yuriy Nikulin.^[1]

World War I 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.^{[citation needed]}

Shayne emigrated to the United States in 1928, travelling as a second-class passenger on board the S/S Berengaria, which arrived at the Port of New York on September 14, 1928. He was listed as Konstantin Schein, an artist residing in Berlin, Germany.

As an actor, Shayne performed in movies such as None but the Lonely Heart (1944)^[2][3] 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.^[4]

In his penultimate film appearance Shayne dominates two minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), playing the old bookseller Pop Leibel.^[5]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1938	Bulldog Drummond in Africa	Plane Saboteur	Uncredited
	King of Alcatraz	Murok
1939	Paris Honeymoon	Hotel Porter	Uncredited
	On Your Toes	First Assassin	Uncredited
	Charlie McCarthy, Detective	Headwaiter	Uncredited
1943	Mission to Moscow	Nokollai Bukharin	Uncredited
	Five Graves to Cairo	Major von Buelow	Uncredited
	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Karkov	Uncredited (deleted scenes)
1944	Song of Russia	Wounded Soldier
	Passage to Marseille	1st Mate	Uncredited
	The Seventh Cross	Feullgrabe
	Till We Meet Again	Major Krupp
	None but the Lonely Heart	Ike Weber
	The Falcon in Hollywood	Alec Hoffman
1945	The Man in Half Moon Street	Dr. B.A. Vishanoff	Uncredited
	Escape in the Fog	Schiller
	Her Highness and the Bellboy	Yanos von Lankofitz
1946	The Stranger	Konrad Meinike
	Dangerous Millions	Professor Jan Schuyler
1947	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Peter von Hoorn
	Song of Love	Reinecke
	Christmas Eve	Gustav Reichman
1948	To the Victor	Pablo
	Night Wind	Dr. Ulding
	Cry of the City	Dr. Veroff	Uncredited
	Angel on the Amazon	Dr. Jungmeyer
1950	The Red Danube	Professor Serge Bruloff
1951	I Was a Communist for the FBI	Gerhardt Eisler
	The Unknown Man	Peter Hulderman
1952	Diplomatic Courier	Austrian Train Conductor	Uncredited
	5 Fingers	Proprietor	Uncredited
1953	Treasure of the Golden Condor	Father Benoit
1954	Rhapsody	Professor Kelber	Uncredited
1956	The Price of Fear	Bolasny
1958	Vertigo	Pop Leibel
1965	Joy in the Morning	Mr. Hoffman	Uncredited, (final film role)

Select TV series

• Mr. & Mrs. North (1 episode, 1952) – Andre Stulik
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 1 Episode 21: "Safe Conduct") – Customs Officer Trevitch
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958) (Season 3 Episode 25: ""Flight to the East") – Abdul Ismael
• The Outer Limits (2 episodes, 1963–1964) – Murdock – The Gardener / Dr. Philip Fletcher
• The Rogues (1 episode, 1965) – Commandant