Michael Shayne

Michael Shayne
First appearanceDividend on Death
Last appearanceWin Some, Lose Some
Created byBrett Halliday
Portrayed byLloyd Nolan (film)
Hugh Beaumont (film)
Jeff Chandler (radio)
Wally Maher (radio)
Mark Stevens (television pilot)
Richard Denning (television)
In-universe information
GenderMale
OccupationPrivate detective
NationalityAmerican

Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser. The character appeared in a series of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fox, five films from the low-budget Producers Releasing Corporation with Hugh Beaumont, a radio series under a variety of titles between 1944 and 1953, and later in 1960–1961 in a 32-episode NBC television series starring Richard Denning in the title role.