Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 07, 1881
Died
Apr 06, 1960
Place of Birth
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits
86 titles
Oscar O'Shea
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.
Known For
Filmography
MGM Parade
Self
One Sunday Afternoon
Toby
My Wild Irish Rose
Pat Daly
Sport of Kings
Judge Sellers
The Brute Man
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
Personality Kid
Officer O'Brien
Without Reservations
Conductor (uncredited)
Senorita from the West
Dusty
Bewitched
Capt. O'Malley
Here Come the Waves
Commodore (uncredited)
Mystery of the Riverboat
Capt. Ethan Perrin
Haunted Harbor
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
The Mummy's Ghost
Museum Watchman
South of Dixie
Colonel Hatcher
Her Primitive Man
Jonathan
Happy Land
Father Case (uncredited)
Corvette K-225
Capt. Smith
Two Tickets to London
Mr. Tinkle
City Without Men
Joseph Barton
Half Way to Shanghai
Doctor McIntyre
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Judge Sanders
The Postman Didn't Ring
Judge Barrington
I Was Framed
Cal Beamish
The Bashful Bachelor
Squire Skimp
Dudes Are Pretty People
Cardigan, working ranch owner
Torpedo Boat
Captain Mike
Fly By Night
Pa Prescott
The Tell-Tale Heart
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
The Officer and the Lady
Dan Regan
Riders of the Purple Sage
Noah Judkins
Lydia
Doctor Richards
Harmon of Michigan
'Pop' Branch
Blossoms in the Dust
Dr. West
Ringside Maisie
Conductor
Mutiny in the Arctic
Capt. Bob Morrissey
Sleepers West
McGowan, a Engineer
Four Mothers
George Edwards (uncredited)
The Phantom Submarine
Captain Velsar
Always a Bride
Uncle Dan Jarvis
Wildcat Bus
Charles Dawson
Stranger on the Third Floor
The Judge
Pier 13
Skipper Kelly
Susan and God
Samr (uncredited)
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Dr. Emery
20 Mule Team
Train Conductor
Forty Little Mothers
Janitor at Train Station
Zanzibar
Captain Craig
Of Mice and Men
Jackson
Missing Evidence
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
The Night of Nights
Mr. Conway (uncredited)