Oscar O'Shea
Born: 1881-10-07 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1960-04-06
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
1948
- One Sunday Afternoon as Toby
1947
- Sport of Kings as Judge Sellers
- My Wild Irish Rose as Pat Daly
1946
- Without Reservations as Conductor (uncredited)
- The Brute Man as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
- Personality Kid as Officer O'Brien
1945
- Bewitched as Capt. O'Malley
- Senorita from the West as Dusty
1944
- The Mummy's Ghost as Museum Watchman
- South of Dixie as Colonel Hatcher
- Mystery of the Riverboat as Capt. Ethan Perrin
- Her Primitive Man as Jonathan
- Here Come the Waves as Commodore (uncredited)
- Haunted Harbor as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1943
- Corvette K-225 as Capt. Smith
- Happy Land as Father Case (uncredited)
- City Without Men as Joseph Barton
- Two Tickets to London as Mr. Tinkle
1942
- Dudes Are Pretty People as Cardigan, working ranch owner
- The Bashful Bachelor as Squire Skimp
- I Was Framed as Cal Beamish
- Fly By Night as Pa Prescott
- The Postman Didn't Ring as Judge Barrington
- Torpedo Boat as Captain Mike
- Half Way to Shanghai as Doctor McIntyre
- Henry Aldrich, Editor as Judge Sanders
1941
- Ringside Maisie as Conductor
- Blossoms in the Dust as Dr. West
- The Tell-Tale Heart as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
- Lydia as Doctor Richards
- Four Mothers as George Edwards (uncredited)
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Noah Judkins
- Mutiny in the Arctic as Capt. Bob Morrissey
- Sleepers West as McGowan, a Engineer
- The Officer and the Lady as Dan Regan
- Harmon of Michigan as 'Pop' Branch
1940
- Stranger on the Third Floor as The Judge
- Always a Bride as Uncle Dan Jarvis
- The Phantom Submarine as Captain Velsar
- Susan and God as Samr (uncredited)
- Wildcat Bus as Charles Dawson
- 20 Mule Team as Train Conductor
- Pier 13 as Skipper Kelly
- Forty Little Mothers as Janitor at Train Station
- Zanzibar as Captain Craig
- You Can't Fool Your Wife as Dr. Emery
1939
- Undercover Agent as Pat Murphy
- The Roaring Twenties as Customer (uncredited)
- Love Affair as Priest (uncredited)
- Of Mice and Men as Jackson
- Those High Grey Walls as Warden
- Invitation to Happiness as Divorce Judge
- She Married a Cop as Pa Duffy
- S.O.S Tidal Wave as Mike Halloran
- King of the Turf as Bartender
- Lucky Night as Police Lieutenant
- The Star Maker as Mr. Flannigan
- Tell No Tales as Sam O'Neil
- The Night of Nights as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
- Big Town Czar as Pa Daley
- Missing Evidence as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- The Shining Hour as Charlie Collins
- Mannequin as 'Pa' Cassidy
- Love Is a Headache as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
- Man-Proof as Gus the Bartender
- Numbered Woman as Desk Sgt. Rourke
- Rebellious Daughters as Dad Elliott
- Racket Busters as Pop Wilson
- Campus Cinderella as Horace Howard
- The Main Event as Captain Rorty
- International Crime as Heath
- Border Wolves as Judge Coleman
- Stablemates as Pete Whalen
- Youth Takes a Fling as Captain Walters
- King of the Newsboys as Mr. Stephens
- Snow Gets in Your Eyes as Gibson (uncredited)
- The Canary Comes Across as Warden Clayton
1937
- Rosalie as Mr. Callahan
- Captains Courageous as Captain Walt Cushman
- Double Wedding as Turnkey (uncredited)
- Big City as John C. Andrews
- You're Only Young Once as Sheriff (uncredited)
- The Good Old Soak as Jake