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