Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 01, 1911
Died
Jul 29, 1998
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
34 titles
O.Z. Whitehead
Biography
American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.
Known For
Filmography
Hello, Stranger
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Ben Burton
The Lion in Winter
Bishop of Durham
Ulysses
Alexander J. Dowie
Summer Magic
Mr. Perkins
Panic in Year Zero!
Hogan
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Herbert Carruthers
Hazel
Two Rode Together
Lt. Whitehead
The Horse Soldiers
Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
The Last Hurrah
Norman Cass Jr.
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Isaac Goodpasture
Perry Mason
Harry Beacom
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Newton
Gunsmoke
Hank Blenis
The Body Beautiful
Oscar Blunt
Cavalcade of America
Beware, My Lovely
Mr. Franks
The San Francisco Story
For Men Only
Prof. Bixby
FBI Girl
Chauncey
Journey Into Light
Lippy
Comin' Round the Mountain
Zeke
The Hoodlum
Breckenridge
The Scarf
Whoopie
Ma and Pa Kettle
Mr. Billings
Suspense
George Vance
Studio One
Peter Kovalesky
A Song Is Born
Professor Oddly
Road House
Arthur
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Ninny Nat
My Brother Talks to Horses
Mr. Puddy
The Grapes of Wrath
Al Joad
The Scoundrel
Calhoun