Oscar Gahan
Born: 1888-08-20 in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1958-03-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
Canada's child prodigy violinist. Played a command performance for the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII, at age 5.) First cousin of Walter Huston, who encouraged him to first vaudeville and then later talking pictures in Hollywood. Went on to be a reliable supporting player in Westerns and wrote a number of now classic country songs.
Filmography
1942
- Billy the Kid Trapped as Barfly
- The Lone Rider and the Bandit as Third Miner
1941
- Sheriff of Tombstone as Bonanza Piano Player
- In Old Cheyenne as Accordion Player
- The Son of Davy Crockett as Voter
- Billy The Kid's Round-Up as Man Reporting Murder
- Billy the Kid in Santa Fe as Gambler (uncredited)
1940
- Young Bill Hickok as Piano Player
- Billy the Kid's Gun Justice as Settler
- The Cheyenne Kid as Posse Rider
- Lightning Strikes West as Posse Rider
- Trailing Double Trouble as Barfly
- Billy the Kid in Texas as Barfly Watching Fight
1939
- New Frontier as Accordion Player
- Rough Riders' Round-up as Musician
- Frontier Pony Express as Fiddler
- In Old Monterey as Guitarist
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Settler
- Riders of the Sage as Powers Rider
- Southward Ho! as Reb Soldier
- In Old Montana as Rancher
- Sundown on the Prairie as Saloon Gunman (archive footage)
1938
- Whirlwind Horseman as Holt
- Ghost Town Riders
- Starlight Over Texas as Henchman
- Gunsmoke Trail as Gambler
- The Feud Maker as Settler
- Six-Gun Trail as Barfly
1937
- Cheyenne Rides Again as Card Player
- Valley of Terror as Piano Player
- Sing Cowboy Sing as Townsman
- California Straight Ahead
- The Roaming Cowboy as Wagon Driver
- Doomed at Sundown as Roulette Table Man
- The Feud of the Trail as Barfly
- The Singing Buckaroo as Cowhand Musician
- The Silver Trail as Curt
- Moonlight on the Range as Deputy
1936
- Aces and Eights as Gambler (uncredited)
- The Unknown Ranger as Fiddle Player (uncredited)
- The Fugitive Sheriff as Fiddler (uncredited)
- Headin' for the Rio Grande as Henchman
- Rio Grande Ranger as Barfly (uncredited)
- Vengeance of Rannah as Henchman Nolan
- Red River Valley as Construction Worker (uncredited)
- Gun Grit as Henchman Don
- Ambush Valley as Diggs
1935
- Gun Play as Tobacco Chewer (uncredited)
- North of Arizona as Fiddle Player
- Western Frontier as Barfly
- Texas Jack as Tuck, A Minstrel (Nip in Credits)
1934
- The Whirlwind Rider as Musician
- Border Guns as Barfly