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