Alan Shayne (born November 21, 1925) is an American casting director, actor, and producer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He started acting in theatre in the 1940s, where he encountered a young Marlon Brando in acting school.[1] He appeared in the Broadway plays Antony and Cleopatra (1947–1948) and The Madwoman of Chaillot (1948–1950). In 1958, he was in the multiple Tony-nominated Broadway musical Jamaica.[2] Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared in several television series such as The Philco Television Playhouse, Man Against Crime, and Kraft Television Theatre.[3]
Having been encouraged by Michael Shurtleff, Shayne became a casting director in the 1960s. He recruited actors for films such as All the Way Home (1963), Johnny Belinda (1967), Catch-22 (1970), and All the President's Men (1976). In 1976, he became the president of Warner Bros. Television Studios, a position he held for ten years. He retired from the entertainment industry in the 1990s.[4]