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)
- 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
- Here Come the Waves as Commodore (uncredited)
- The Mummy's Ghost as Museum Watchman
- Her Primitive Man as Jonathan
- South of Dixie as Colonel Hatcher
- Mystery of the Riverboat as Capt. Ethan Perrin
- Haunted Harbor as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1943
- Happy Land as Father Case (uncredited)
- Two Tickets to London as Mr. Tinkle
- Corvette K-225 as Capt. Smith
- City Without Men as Joseph Barton
1942
- Fly By Night as Pa Prescott
- Half Way to Shanghai as Doctor McIntyre
- I Was Framed as Cal Beamish
- The Postman Didn't Ring as Judge Barrington
- The Bashful Bachelor as Squire Skimp
- 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
- Four Mothers as George Edwards (uncredited)
- Ringside Maisie as Conductor
- Blossoms in the Dust as Dr. West
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Noah Judkins
- Mutiny in the Arctic as Capt. Bob Morrissey
- Harmon of Michigan as 'Pop' Branch
- The Tell-Tale Heart as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
- 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
- Always a Bride as Uncle Dan Jarvis
- Wildcat Bus as Charles Dawson
- Susan and God as Samr (uncredited)
- You Can't Fool Your Wife as Dr. Emery
- Zanzibar as Captain Craig
- The Phantom Submarine as Captain Velsar
- Pier 13 as Skipper Kelly
1939
- Love Affair as Priest (uncredited)
- The Roaring Twenties as Customer (uncredited)
- Of Mice and Men as Jackson
- Lucky Night as Police Lieutenant
- King of the Turf as Bartender
- S.O.S Tidal Wave as Mike Halloran
- Big Town Czar as Pa Daley
- The Star Maker as Mr. Flannigan
- Missing Evidence as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
- She Married a Cop as Pa Duffy
- Undercover Agent as Pat Murphy
- Those High Grey Walls as Warden
- The Night of Nights as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
- Tell No Tales as Sam O'Neil
- Invitation to Happiness as Divorce Judge
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- Stablemates as Pete Whalen
- Mannequin as 'Pa' Cassidy
- Man-Proof as Gus the Bartender
- Numbered Woman as Desk Sgt. Rourke
- The Shining Hour as Charlie Collins
- Love Is a Headache as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- Racket Busters as Pop Wilson
- International Crime as Heath
- Youth Takes a Fling as Captain Walters
- King of the Newsboys as Mr. Stephens
- Border Wolves as Judge Coleman
- Snow Gets in Your Eyes as Gibson (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
- Campus Cinderella as Horace Howard
- Rebellious Daughters as Dad Elliott
- 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)
- The Good Old Soak as Jake
- Big City as John C. Andrews