---
name: "Konstantin Shayne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/konstantin-shayne"
fi1m_id: "konstantin-shayne"
imdb_id: "nm0790164"
tmdb_id: 5739
wikidata_id: "Q3198775"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 November 1888"
died: "15 November 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T04:00:57.935450+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Konstantin Shayne

## Identity

Konstantin Shayne

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/konstantin-shayne
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** konstantin-shayne
- **IMDb ID:** nm0790164
- **TMDB ID:** 5739
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3198775
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Shayne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3198775, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790164/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5739

Actor. Born 29 November 1888 in Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. Died 15 November 1974.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 November 1888, Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
- **Died:** 15 November 1974
- **Active:** 1943–1958
- **Also known as:** Константин Вениаминович Олькеницкий, Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 67 (2), 1950s 92 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Romance 2, Thriller 2, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Drama 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $29m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Shayne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3198775, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790164/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5739

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*The Stranger*](https://film.one/film/the-stranger.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Konstantin Shayne (born Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski; 29 November 1888 – 15 November 1974) was a Russian-American actor. He was born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine), to the family of a Jewish actor, and was the brother of actress Tamara Shayne. World War I prevented him from joining the Moscow Arts Theatre; he fought with General Wrangel and the White Armies during the conflict before emigrating to the United States.

Shayne appeared in numerous Hollywood films from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. He is known for roles in *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1943), *Five Graves to Cairo* (1943), *None but the Lonely Heart* (1944), *The Stranger* (1946), *The Secret Life of Walter Mitty* (1947), *Cry of the City* (1948) and *5 Fingers* (1952). His performance as Pop Leibel in Alfred Hitchcock's *Vertigo* (1958) was among his final film appearances.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Vertigo* (1958), Fi1m 92, as Pop Leibel — [page](https://film.one/film/vertigo.md)
- *The Stranger* (1946), Fi1m 76, as Konrad Meinike — [page](https://film.one/film/the-stranger.md)
- *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1943), Fi1m 58, as Karkov — [page](https://film.one/film/for-whom-the-bell-tolls.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Rogues* (1964), series, as Commandant
- *The Outer Limits* (1963), series, as The Gardener, Philip Fletcher
- *Vertigo* (1958), as Pop Leibel — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/vertigo.md)
- *The Price of Fear* (1956), as Bolasny
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Customs Officer Trevitch, Abdul Ismael
- *Treasure of the Golden Condor* (1953), as Father Benoit
- *5 Fingers* (1952), Actor
- *The Unknown Man* (1951), as Peter Hulderman
- *I Was a Communist for the FBI* (1951), as Gerhardt Eisler
- *The Red Danube* (1949), as Professor Serge Bruloff
- *Angel on the Amazon* (1948), as Dr. Jungmeyer
- *To the Victor* (1948), as Pablo
- *Cry of the City* (1948), as Dr. Veroff
- *Night Wind* (1948), as Dr. Ulding
- *Christmas Eve* (1947), as Gustav Reichman
- *Song of Love* (1947), as Reinecke
- *The Secret Life of Walter Mitty* (1947), as Peter van Hoorn
- *Dangerous Millions* (1946), as Professor Jan Schuyler
- *The Stranger* (1946), as Konrad Meinike — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-stranger.md)
- *Her Highness and the Bellboy* (1945), as Yanos Van Lankovitz
- *Escape in the Fog* (1945), as Schiller
- *The Man in Half Moon Street* (1945), as Dr. B.A. Vishanoff
- *The Falcon in Hollywood* (1944), as Alec Hoffman
- *None But the Lonely Heart* (1944), as Ike Weber
- *Till We Meet Again* (1944), as Major Krupp
- *The Seventh Cross* (1944), as Fuellgrabe
- *Passage to Marseille* (1944), as First Mate (uncredited)
- *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1943), as Karkov — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/for-whom-the-bell-tolls.md)
- *Five Graves to Cairo* (1943), as Maj. Von Buelow (uncredited)
- *Mission to Moscow* (1943), as Mr. Nikolai Bukharin (uncredited)
- *Charlie McCarthy, Detective* (1939), as Headwaiter
- *On Your Toes* (1939), as First Assassin
- *King of Alcatraz* (1938), as Murok
- *Bulldog Drummond in Africa* (1938), as Plane Saboteur

## Gallery

- ![Konstantin Shayne](https://film.one/media/person/59160/gallery-7ac51ec7dca6.jpg) Konstantin Shayne — film screenshot (International Pictures / RKO), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Konstantin_Shayne_in_The_Stranger.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Konstantin Shayne](https://film.one/media/person/59160/gallery-845a8bf76720.jpg) Konstantin Shayne — Image via TMDB

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/konstantin-shayne