Oscar O'Shea
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
The Roaring Twenties
as Customer (uncredited) 1939
Captains Courageous
as Captain Walt Cushman 1937
Love Affair
as Priest (uncredited) 1939
Stranger on the Third Floor
as The Judge 1940
Of Mice and Men
as Jackson 1939
The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Watchman 1944
Double Wedding
as Turnkey (uncredited) 1937
Blossoms in the Dust
as Dr. West 1941
The Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited) 1946
Mannequin
as 'Pa' Cassidy 1938
The Shining Hour
as Charlie Collins 1938
Bewitched
as Capt. O'Malley 1945
Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited) 1946
Sleepers West
as McGowan, a Engineer 1941
Susan and God
as Samr (uncredited) 1940
The Tell-Tale Heart
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited) 1941