O.Z. Whitehead
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
Perry Mason
Harry Beacom
Studio One
Peter Kovalesky
Hazel
Suspense
George Vance
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Newton
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Simms
Cavalcade of America
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Gunsmoke
Hank Blenis
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Herbert Carruthers
The Lion in Winter
Bishop of Durham
The Grapes of Wrath
Al Joad
The Horse Soldiers
Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
Two Rode Together
Lt. Whitehead
The Hoodlum
Breckenridge
The Last Hurrah
Norman Cass Jr.
Summer Magic
Mr. Perkins
A Song Is Born
Professor Oddly
Panic in Year Zero!
Hogan
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Isaac Goodpasture
Comin' Round the Mountain
Zeke
Ma and Pa Kettle
Mr. Billings
Road House
Arthur
Beware, My Lovely
Mr. Franks
The Scarf
Whoopie
Ulysses
Alexander J. Dowie
The Scoundrel
Calhoun
For Men Only
Prof. Bixby
The San Francisco Story
Alfey
The San Francisco Story
Journey Into Light
Lippy
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Ninny Nat
My Brother Talks to Horses
Mr. Puddy
FBI Girl
Chauncey
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Ben Burton
The Body Beautiful
Oscar Blunt