Person Details

Birthday: 1881-10-08 01:38:55

Death: 1960-04-06 01:38:55

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Movie Involvements: 62

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Captains Courageous
Average
7

Captains Courageous

(1937) Captain Walt Cushman
Love Affair
Average
7

Love Affair

(1939) Priest (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
Average
7

The Roaring Twenties

(1939) Customer (uncredited)
Stranger on the Third Floor
Average
7

Stranger on the Third Floor

(1940) The Judge
Of Mice and Men
Average
7

Of Mice and Men

(1939) Jackson
The Mummy's Ghost
Average
6

The Mummy's Ghost

(1944) Museum Watchman
Bewitched
Average
5

Bewitched

(1945) Capt. O'Malley
Blossoms in the Dust
Average
7

Blossoms in the Dust

(1941) Dr. West

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1948 Toby
1947 Pat Daly
Judge Sellers
1946 Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
Officer O'Brien
Conductor (uncredited)
1945 Dusty
Capt. O'Malley
1944 Commodore (uncredited)
Capt. Ethan Perrin
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
Museum Watchman
Colonel Hatcher
Jonathan
1943 Father Case (uncredited)
Capt. Smith
Mr. Tinkle
Joseph Barton
1942 Doctor McIntyre
Judge Sanders
Judge Barrington
Cal Beamish
Squire Skimp
Cardigan, working ranch owner
Captain Mike
Pa Prescott
1941 First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Dan Regan
Noah Judkins
Doctor Richards
'Pop' Branch
Dr. West
Conductor
Capt. Bob Morrissey
McGowan, a Engineer
George Edwards (uncredited)
1940 Captain Velsar
Uncle Dan Jarvis
Charles Dawson
The Judge
Skipper Kelly
Samr (uncredited)
Dr. Emery
Train Conductor
Janitor at Train Station
Captain Craig
1939 Jackson
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
Mr. Conway (uncredited)
Customer (uncredited)
Warden
Mr. Flannigan
Pa Duffy
Sam O'Neil
Divorce Judge
Mike Halloran
Police Lieutenant
Pa Daley
Pat Murphy
Priest (uncredited)
Bartender
1938 Charlie Collins
Pete Whalen
Captain Walters
Horace Howard
Pop Wilson
Dad Elliott
Captain Rorty
Oscar
Gibson (uncredited)
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
Heath
Mr. Stephens
Judge Coleman
Warden Clayton
'Pa' Cassidy
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Gus the Bartender
1937 Mr. Callahan
Sheriff (uncredited)
Turnkey (uncredited)
John C. Andrews
Captain Walt Cushman
Jake
Year Character Movie/Tv

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