Konstantin Shayne
ActingAlso Known As
Константин Вениаминович Олькеницкий, Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski
Biography
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 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.
Movies
(31 total)
Vertigo
as Pop Leibel
The Stranger
as Konrad Meinike
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Karkov
Five Graves to Cairo
as Maj. Von Buelow (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Peter van Hoorn
Cry of the City
as Dr. Veroff
None But the Lonely Heart
as Ike Weber
The Seventh Cross
as Fuellgrabe
Escape in the Fog
as Schiller
The Price of Fear
as Bolasny
Mission to Moscow
as Mr. Nikolai Bukharin (uncredited)
I Was a Communist for the FBI
as Gerhardt Eisler
The Unknown Man
as Peter Hulderman
Christmas Eve
as Gustav Reichman
The Falcon in Hollywood
as Alec Hoffman
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as Plane Saboteur
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Yanos Van Lankovitz
The Red Danube
as Professor Serge Bruloff
TV Shows
(5 total)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Customs Officer Trevitch
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Abdul Ismael
The Outer Limits
as The Gardener
The Outer Limits
as Philip Fletcher
The Rogues
as Commandant