Oscar O'Shea
Acting
Born: 1881-10-07 in 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.
Known For
MGM Parade
Self
MGM Parade
self
Ringside Maisie
Conductor
Captains Courageous
Captain Walt Cushman
Angels with Dirty Faces
Rosalie
Mr. Callahan
The Mummy's Ghost
Museum Watchman
Of Mice and Men
Jackson
Love Affair
Priest (uncredited)
Without Reservations
Conductor (uncredited)
Undercover Agent
Pat Murphy
Stranger on the Third Floor
The Judge
The Roaring Twenties
Customer (uncredited)
Lydia
Doctor Richards
Blossoms in the Dust
Dr. West
Double Wedding
Turnkey (uncredited)
My Wild Irish Rose
Pat Daly
Her Primitive Man
Jonathan
South of Dixie
Colonel Hatcher
You're Only Young Once
Sheriff (uncredited)
Susan and God
Sam (uncredited)
The Shining Hour
Charlie Collins
I Was Framed
Cal Beamish
Four Mothers
George Edwards (uncredited)
Always a Bride
Uncle Dan Jarvis
Dudes Are Pretty People
Cardigan, working ranch owner
Missing Evidence
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
Half Way to Shanghai
Doctor McIntyre
Man-Proof
Gus the Bartender
Those High Grey Walls
Warden
Here Come the Waves
Commodore (uncredited)
20 Mule Team
Train Conductor
The Phantom Submarine
Captain Velsar
Racket Busters
Pop Wilson
Invitation to Happiness
Divorce Judge
The Tell-Tale Heart
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Mannequin
'Pa' Cassidy
Corvette K-225
Capt. Smith
Wildcat Bus
Charles Dawson
Mystery of the Riverboat
Capt. Ethan Perrin