Shane Van Dyke

Shane Van Dyke is an American actor, screenwriter and director, born in Los Angeles into a performing family that includes his father Barry Van Dyke and grandfather Dick Van Dyke. He took up acting after high school through the theater program at Moorpark College, and his first sustained screen role was the medical student Alex Smith on Diagnosis: Murder, which he played over 14 episodes. Stage and television work followed, among it the musical Annie in 2002, The Bold and the Beautiful and the independent film Arizona Summer. He wrote Paranormal Entity (2009), directed and wrote Titanic II (2010) and played its ship's owner, Hayden Walsh, then appeared in Super Shark (2011). He produced the horror film Chernobyl Diaries in 2012, and a spec script of his, Don't Worry Darling, appeared on the 2019 Black List.