Oscar O'Shea
Acting • Born 1881-10-07 – Died 1960-04-06
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.
Filmography
87 credits
The Postman Didn't Ring
Movie • 1942
Judge Barrington
Mannequin
Movie • 1938
'Pa' Cassidy
Bewitched
Movie • 1945
Capt. O'Malley
Stranger on the Third Floor
Movie • 1940
The Judge
The Phantom Submarine
Movie • 1940
Captain Velsar
The Officer and the Lady
Movie • 1941
Dan Regan
Rosalie
Movie • 1937
Mr. Callahan
Without Reservations
Movie • 1946
Conductor (uncredited)
Captains Courageous
Movie • 1937
Captain Walt Cushman
Sport of Kings
Movie • 1947
Judge Sellers
Haunted Harbor
Movie • 1944
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
Invitation to Happiness
Movie • 1939
Divorce Judge
Of Mice and Men
Movie • 1939
Jackson
Big City
Movie • 1937
John C. Andrews
Racket Busters
Movie • 1938
Pop Wilson
The Night of Nights
Movie • 1939
Mr. Conway (uncredited)
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie • 1941
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
The Shining Hour
Movie • 1938
Charlie Collins
Pier 13
Movie • 1940
Skipper Kelly
Missing Evidence
Movie • 1939
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
Those High Grey Walls
Movie • 1939
Warden
Stablemates
Movie • 1938
Pete Whalen
Lucky Night
Movie • 1939
Police Lieutenant
Wildcat Bus
Movie • 1940
Charles Dawson
International Crime
Movie • 1938
Heath
Man-Proof
Movie • 1938
Gus the Bartender
One Sunday Afternoon
Movie • 1948
Toby
Undercover Agent
Movie • 1939
Pat Murphy
Campus Cinderella
Movie • 1938
Horace Howard
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Movie • 1940
Dr. Emery
The Star Maker
Movie • 1939
Mr. Flannigan
Mystery of the Riverboat
Movie • 1944
Capt. Ethan Perrin
King of the Newsboys
Movie • 1938
Mr. Stephens
Two Tickets to London
Movie • 1943
Mr. Tinkle
Numbered Woman
Movie • 1938
Desk Sgt. Rourke
Rebellious Daughters
Movie • 1938
Dad Elliott
Happy Land
Movie • 1943
Father Case (uncredited)
Always a Bride
Movie • 1940
Uncle Dan Jarvis
20 Mule Team
Movie • 1940
Train Conductor
Tell No Tales
Movie • 1939
Sam O'Neil
Youth Takes a Fling
Movie • 1938
Captain Walters
You're Only Young Once
Movie • 1937
Sheriff (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
Movie • 1938
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Hold That Kiss
Movie • 1938
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
Personality Kid
Movie • 1946
Officer O'Brien
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Movie • 1938
Gibson (uncredited)
My Wild Irish Rose
Movie • 1947
Pat Daly
Love Affair
Movie • 1939
Priest (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
Movie • 1939
Customer (uncredited)
Fly By Night
Movie • 1942
Pa Prescott
Harmon of Michigan
Movie • 1941
'Pop' Branch
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Movie • 1939
Mike Halloran
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Movie • 1942
Judge Sanders
I Was Framed
Movie • 1942
Cal Beamish
Susan and God
Movie • 1940
Samr (uncredited)
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie • 1941
Noah Judkins
Dudes Are Pretty People
Movie • 1942
Cardigan, working ranch owner
Four Mothers
Movie • 1941
George Edwards (uncredited)
Ringside Maisie
Movie • 1941
Conductor
Senorita from the West
Movie • 1945
Dusty
Forty Little Mothers
Movie • 1940
Janitor at Train Station
The Mummy's Ghost
Movie • 1944
Museum Watchman
Blossoms in the Dust
Movie • 1941
Dr. West
Big Town Czar
Movie • 1939
Pa Daley
The Main Event
Movie • 1938
Captain Rorty
Half Way to Shanghai
Movie • 1942
Doctor McIntyre
King of the Turf
Movie • 1939
Bartender
Her Primitive Man
Movie • 1944
Jonathan
The Canary Comes Across
Movie • 1938
Warden Clayton
City Without Men
Movie • 1943
Joseph Barton
Corvette K-225
Movie • 1943
Capt. Smith
Border Wolves
Movie • 1938
Judge Coleman
The Good Old Soak
Movie • 1937
Jake
She Married a Cop
Movie • 1939
Pa Duffy
South of Dixie
Movie • 1944
Colonel Hatcher
Lydia
Movie • 1941
Doctor Richards
Zanzibar
Movie • 1940
Captain Craig
Double Wedding
Movie • 1937
Turnkey (uncredited)
Sleepers West
Movie • 1941
McGowan, a Engineer
Torpedo Boat
Movie • 1942
Captain Mike
Mutiny in the Arctic
Movie • 1941
Capt. Bob Morrissey
The Brute Man
Movie • 1946
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
The Bashful Bachelor
Movie • 1942
Squire Skimp
Here Come the Waves
Movie • 1944
Commodore (uncredited)
Angels with Dirty Faces
Movie • 1938
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
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MGM Parade
TV • 1955
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