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