Oscar O'Shea
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(85 total)
The Roaring Twenties
as Customer (uncredited)
Captains Courageous
as Captain Walt Cushman
Love Affair
as Priest (uncredited)
Stranger on the Third Floor
as The Judge
Of Mice and Men
as Jackson
The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Watchman
Double Wedding
as Turnkey (uncredited)
Blossoms in the Dust
as Dr. West
The Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
Mannequin
as 'Pa' Cassidy
The Shining Hour
as Charlie Collins
Bewitched
as Capt. O'Malley
Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited)
Sleepers West
as McGowan, a Engineer
Susan and God
as Samr (uncredited)
Racket Busters
as Pop Wilson
The Tell-Tale Heart
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Corvette K-225
as Capt. Smith
Lydia
as Doctor Richards
TV Shows
(2 total)
MGM Parade
as Self
MGM Parade
as self