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
- The Lone Rider and the Bandit as Third Miner
- Billy the Kid Trapped as Barfly
1941
- The Son of Davy Crockett as Voter
- Billy the Kid in Santa Fe as Gambler (uncredited)
- In Old Cheyenne as Accordion Player
- Sheriff of Tombstone as Bonanza Piano Player
- Billy The Kid's Round-Up as Man Reporting Murder
1940
- Billy the Kid's Gun Justice as Settler
- Trailing Double Trouble as Barfly
- Billy the Kid in Texas as Barfly Watching Fight
- Young Bill Hickok as Piano Player
- Lightning Strikes West as Posse Rider
- The Cheyenne Kid as Posse Rider
1939
- Southward Ho! as Reb Soldier
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Settler
- New Frontier as Accordion Player
- In Old Monterey as Guitarist
- Rough Riders' Round-up as Musician
- Frontier Pony Express as Fiddler
- In Old Montana as Rancher
- Riders of the Sage as Powers Rider
- Sundown on the Prairie as Saloon Gunman (archive footage)
1938
- Starlight Over Texas as Henchman
- Whirlwind Horseman as Holt
- Gunsmoke Trail as Gambler
- The Feud Maker as Settler
- Ghost Town Riders
- Six-Gun Trail as Barfly
1937
- Doomed at Sundown as Roulette Table Man
- The Roaming Cowboy as Wagon Driver
- The Feud of the Trail as Barfly
- Valley of Terror as Piano Player
- California Straight Ahead
- Sing Cowboy Sing as Townsman
- Cheyenne Rides Again as Card Player
- The Silver Trail as Curt
- Moonlight on the Range as Deputy
- The Singing Buckaroo as Cowhand Musician
1936
- The Unknown Ranger as Fiddle Player (uncredited)
- Ambush Valley as Diggs
- The Fugitive Sheriff as Fiddler (uncredited)
- Aces and Eights as Gambler (uncredited)
- Gun Grit as Henchman Don
- Red River Valley as Construction Worker (uncredited)
- Headin' for the Rio Grande as Henchman
- Rio Grande Ranger as Barfly (uncredited)
- Vengeance of Rannah as Henchman Nolan
1935
- Western Frontier as Barfly
- Gun Play as Tobacco Chewer (uncredited)
- North of Arizona as Fiddle Player
- Texas Jack as Tuck, A Minstrel (Nip in Credits)
1934
- Border Guns as Barfly