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