Oscar O'Shea
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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Movies (49)
One Sunday Afternoon
as Toby
1948
My Wild Irish Rose
as Pat Daly
1947
Sport of Kings
as Judge Sellers
1947
The Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
1946
Personality Kid
as Officer O'Brien
1946
Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited)
1946
Senorita from the West
as Dusty
1945
Bewitched
as Capt. O'Malley
1945
Here Come the Waves
as Commodore (uncredited)
1944
Mystery of the Riverboat
as Capt. Ethan Perrin
1944
Haunted Harbor
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1944
The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Watchman
1944
South of Dixie
as Colonel Hatcher
1944
Her Primitive Man
as Jonathan
1944
Happy Land
as Father Case (uncredited)
1943
Corvette K-225
as Capt. Smith
1943
Two Tickets to London
as Mr. Tinkle
1943
City Without Men
as Joseph Barton
1943
Half Way to Shanghai
as Doctor McIntyre
1942
Henry Aldrich, Editor
as Judge Sanders
1942
The Postman Didn't Ring
as Judge Barrington
1942
I Was Framed
as Cal Beamish
1942
The Bashful Bachelor
as Squire Skimp
1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
as Cardigan, working ranch owner
1942
Torpedo Boat
as Captain Mike
1942
Fly By Night
as Pa Prescott
1942
The Tell-Tale Heart
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1941
The Officer and the Lady
as Dan Regan
1941
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Noah Judkins
1941
Lydia
as Doctor Richards
1941
Harmon of Michigan
as 'Pop' Branch
1941
Blossoms in the Dust
as Dr. West
1941
Ringside Maisie
as Conductor
1941
Mutiny in the Arctic
as Capt. Bob Morrissey
1941
Sleepers West
as McGowan, a Engineer
1941
Four Mothers
as George Edwards (uncredited)
1941
The Phantom Submarine
as Captain Velsar
1940
Always a Bride
as Uncle Dan Jarvis
1940
Wildcat Bus
as Charles Dawson
1940
Stranger on the Third Floor
as The Judge
1940
Pier 13
as Skipper Kelly
1940
Susan and God
as Samr (uncredited)
1940
You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Dr. Emery
1940
20 Mule Team
as Train Conductor
1940
Forty Little Mothers
as Janitor at Train Station
1940
Zanzibar
as Captain Craig
1940
Of Mice and Men
as Jackson
1939
Missing Evidence
as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1939
The Night of Nights
as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
1939
