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Alan Shayne was born on 21 November 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a casting director and actor, known for All the President's Men (1976), The Bourne Identity (1988) and Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951).
- Casting Department, Casting Director, Actor
- November 21, 1925
- Alan Shayne
Nov 15, 2020 · After starting out as an actor, Shayne, who will turn 95 later this month, became a leading behind-the-scenes player in film and television, working as casting director on movies including...
- Peter Tonguette
- Thank You So Much For Doing This with us. What Is Your Backstory?
- How Have You Used Your Success to Bring Goodness to The World?
- All The President’s Men
- Alice
- Warner Bros. Television
- Bette Davis
- A Big Idea For TV
- Alive
I was the President of Warner Brothers Television for many years, shepherding hit shows such as Alice, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Wonder Woman, and Growing Pains. I began my career as an actor on Broadway and became a well-known casting director of TV and films such as All the President’s Men. I produced TV specials and, after leaving Wa...
Norman and I wrote Double Life: A Love Story from Broadway to Hollywoodin part to show that a good marriage is a good marriage regardless of gender, and to strike a blow against inequality.
While I was the Head of Casting at Warner Brothers, I had the great privilege of working with the director Alan Pakula in casting All The President’s Men. I went to Washington and met the people at The Washington Post, who had been involved in exposing the Watergate scandal, so I could find the right actors to not only look like them but also expre...
While I was the head of casting at CBS, the man in charge of the west coast TV operation came to me and said that CBS had the actress Linda Lavin under contract, but they were about to lose her — her contract was up at the end of the week. “Is there anything we have for her?” he asked. I always read all the scripts that were submitted as potential ...
I was asked by the heads of Warner Bros to temporarily take over the television division. “We’re going out of television,” they said, “it’s losing money, but we need someone to be there for a few months until we can wind up everything. You’re the only one around who knows anything about television so will you do it as a favor? You’ll come back into...
I was putting together an Agatha Christie movie for TV with Helen Hayes, when someone at CBS suggested Bette Davis to play a woman who is slowly being poisoned. “She hasn’t been well,” I said. “I’d be afraid—since we’re doing the film on location in England—that she might not be up to it.” “But you’d have the Queen of Broadway and the Queen of Holl...
When I was president of Warners Television, a call went out to all the television heads that a new man was taking over television at NBC. He wanted all of us to come to him with exciting ideas that would lift the network’s visibility. He didn’t want the same old cop shows and doctor shows. He wanted us to be creative — the sky was the limit. I was ...
When I was a film executive at Warners, I pitched a book that I had found called Alive. I thought it would make a great movie. I had to sell it to the other film executives and the heads of the film division at the weekly film meeting. I used all my years as an actor to dramatize the crash of a plane in the Andes, the desperate fight to keep warm i...
- Yitzi Weiner
Alan Shayne was born on 21 November 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and casting director, known for All the President's Men (1976), The Bourne Identity (1988) and Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951).
- November 21, 1925
Sep 16, 2023 · Cover of Alan Shayne’s “The Star Dressing Room: Portrait of an Actor.” September 16, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. There are not a whole lot of people around today who made...
- Ron Fassler
Nov 4, 2023 · At 97, Alan Shayne can look back on at least two careers — as an actor and as the head of Warner Brothers Television. Shayne tells us about his people: Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton and ...
Sep 29, 2020 · In Alan Shayne’s poignant and immensely readable memoir, The Rain May Pass (Rand-Smith LLC), once he meets Roger, the lover’s name — or a situation relating to him — seems to turn up on every page. Passionate love can come with different degrees of intrigue and/or baggage.
