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
- In Old Cheyenne as Accordion Player
- Sheriff of Tombstone as Bonanza Piano 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
- The Cheyenne Kid as Posse Rider
- Young Bill Hickok as Piano Player
- Billy the Kid's Gun Justice as Settler
- Billy the Kid in Texas as Barfly Watching Fight
- Trailing Double Trouble as Barfly
- Lightning Strikes West as Posse Rider
1939
- New Frontier as Accordion Player
- In Old Monterey as Guitarist
- Rough Riders' Round-up as Musician
- Sundown on the Prairie as Saloon Gunman (archive footage)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Settler
- Riders of the Sage as Powers Rider
- Frontier Pony Express as Fiddler
- Southward Ho! as Reb Soldier
- In Old Montana as Rancher
1938
- Ghost Town Riders
- Six-Gun Trail as Barfly
- Whirlwind Horseman as Holt
- Gunsmoke Trail as Gambler
- Starlight Over Texas as Henchman
- The Feud Maker as Settler
1937
- The Silver Trail as Curt
- The Feud of the Trail as Barfly
- Moonlight on the Range as Deputy
- Valley of Terror as Piano Player
- California Straight Ahead
- The Roaming Cowboy as Wagon Driver
- Cheyenne Rides Again as Card Player
- The Singing Buckaroo as Cowhand Musician
- Doomed at Sundown as Roulette Table Man
- Sing Cowboy Sing as Townsman
1936
- Aces and Eights as Gambler (uncredited)
- Ambush Valley as Diggs
- The Fugitive Sheriff as Fiddler (uncredited)
- Red River Valley as Construction Worker (uncredited)
- The Unknown Ranger as Fiddle Player (uncredited)
- Gun Grit as Henchman Don
- Vengeance of Rannah as Henchman Nolan
- Headin' for the Rio Grande as Henchman
- Rio Grande Ranger as Barfly (uncredited)
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
- Border Guns as Barfly
- The Whirlwind Rider as Musician