Name
Oscar O'Shea
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1881-10-07
Deathday
1960-04-06 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oscar O'Shea (8 October 1881 – 6 April 1960), born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, was a Canadian-American character actor with over 100 film appearances from 1937 to 1953.
O'Shea was a comic actor who earned a million dollars but lost it all in the Great Depression. His first straight role came in a Federal Theatre Project production of It Can't Happen Here, a play based on the novel of the same name. His first film was Captains Courageous (1937).
Beginning in 1929, O'Shea operated the Oscar O'Shea Players repertory theater company in the Embassy Theatre in Ottawa, Canada. He eventually ended the enterprise "to seek a field where his art would be more widely appreciated." He then set up an operation in Chicago, "where he managed his own theatre and stock company during good and bad years."
O'Shea died in Hollywood, California in 1960 at age 78.
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- 1942 The Postman Didn't Ring as Judge Barrington
- 1938 Mannequin as 'Pa' Cassidy
- 1945 Bewitched as Capt. O'Malley
- 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor as The Judge
- 1940 The Phantom Submarine as Captain Velsar
- 1941 The Officer and the Lady as Dan Regan
- 1937 Rosalie as Mr. Callahan
- 1946 Without Reservations as Conductor (uncredited)
- 1937 Captains Courageous as Captain Walt Cushman
- 1947 Sport of Kings as Judge Sellers
- 1944 Haunted Harbor as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
- 1939 Invitation to Happiness as Divorce Judge
- 1939 Of Mice and Men as Jackson
- 1937 Big City as John C. Andrews
- 1938 Racket Busters as Pop Wilson
- 1939 The Night of Nights as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
- 1941 The Tell-Tale Heart as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
- 1938 The Shining Hour as Charlie Collins
- 1940 Pier 13 as Skipper Kelly
- 1939 Missing Evidence as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
- 1939 Those High Grey Walls as Warden
- 1938 Stablemates as Pete Whalen
- 1939 Lucky Night as Police Lieutenant
- 1940 Wildcat Bus as Charles Dawson
- 1938 International Crime as Heath
- 1938 Man-Proof as Gus the Bartender
- 1948 One Sunday Afternoon as Toby
- 1939 Undercover Agent as Pat Murphy
- 1938 Campus Cinderella as Horace Howard
- 1940 You Can't Fool Your Wife as Dr. Emery
- 1939 The Star Maker as Mr. Flannigan
- 1944 Mystery of the Riverboat as Capt. Ethan Perrin
- 1938 King of the Newsboys as Mr. Stephens
- 1943 Two Tickets to London as Mr. Tinkle
- 1938 Numbered Woman as Desk Sgt. Rourke
- 1938 Rebellious Daughters as Dad Elliott
- 1943 Happy Land as Father Case (uncredited)
- 1940 Always a Bride as Uncle Dan Jarvis
- 1940 20 Mule Team as Train Conductor
- 1939 Tell No Tales as Sam O'Neil
- 1938 Youth Takes a Fling as Captain Walters
- 1937 You're Only Young Once as Sheriff (uncredited)
- 1938 Love Is a Headache as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- 1938 Hold That Kiss as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
- 1946 Personality Kid as Officer O'Brien
- 1938 Snow Gets in Your Eyes as Gibson (uncredited)
- 1947 My Wild Irish Rose as Pat Daly
- 1939 Love Affair as Priest (uncredited)
- 1939 The Roaring Twenties as Customer (uncredited)
- 1942 Fly By Night as Pa Prescott
- 1941 Harmon of Michigan as 'Pop' Branch
- 1939 S.O.S Tidal Wave as Mike Halloran
- 1942 Henry Aldrich, Editor as Judge Sanders
- 1942 I Was Framed as Cal Beamish
- 1940 Susan and God as Samr (uncredited)
- 1941 Riders of the Purple Sage as Noah Judkins
- 1941 Four Mothers as George Edwards (uncredited)
- 1942 Dudes Are Pretty People as Cardigan, working ranch owner
- 1941 Ringside Maisie as Conductor
- 1945 Senorita from the West as Dusty
- 1940 Forty Little Mothers as Janitor at Train Station
- 1944 The Mummy's Ghost as Museum Watchman
- 1941 Blossoms in the Dust as Dr. West
- 1939 Big Town Czar as Pa Daley
- 1938 The Main Event as Captain Rorty
- 1942 Half Way to Shanghai as Doctor McIntyre
- 1939 King of the Turf as Bartender
- 1944 Her Primitive Man as Jonathan
- 1938 The Canary Comes Across as Warden Clayton
- 1943 City Without Men as Joseph Barton
- 1943 Corvette K-225 as Capt. Smith
- 1938 Border Wolves as Judge Coleman
- 1937 The Good Old Soak as Jake
- 1939 She Married a Cop as Pa Duffy
- 1944 South of Dixie as Colonel Hatcher
- 1941 Lydia as Doctor Richards
- 1940 Zanzibar as Captain Craig
- 1937 Double Wedding as Turnkey (uncredited)
- 1941 Sleepers West as McGowan, a Engineer
- 1941 Mutiny in the Arctic as Capt. Bob Morrissey
- 1942 Torpedo Boat as Captain Mike
- 1946 The Brute Man as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
- 1942 The Bashful Bachelor as Squire Skimp
- 1944 Here Come the Waves as Commodore (uncredited)
- 1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
- 1955 MGM Parade ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1955 MGM Parade ( 1 episode ) as self
