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