Oscar O'Shea
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.
Acting (85 movies)
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
Mannequin
1938
Bewitched
1945
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
The Phantom Submarine
1940
The Officer and the Lady
1941
Rosalie
1937
Without Reservations
1946
Captains Courageous
1937
Sport of Kings
1947
Haunted Harbor
1944
Invitation to Happiness
1939
Of Mice and Men
1939
Big City
1937
Racket Busters
1938
The Night of Nights
1939
The Tell-Tale Heart
1941
The Shining Hour
1938
Pier 13
1940
Missing Evidence
1939
Those High Grey Walls
1939
Stablemates
1938
Lucky Night
1939
Wildcat Bus
1940
International Crime
1938
Man-Proof
1938
One Sunday Afternoon
1948
Undercover Agent
1939
Campus Cinderella
1938
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
The Star Maker
1939
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
King of the Newsboys
1938
Two Tickets to London
1943
Numbered Woman
1938
Rebellious Daughters
1938
Happy Land
1943
Always a Bride
1940
20 Mule Team
1940
Tell No Tales
1939
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
You're Only Young Once
1937
Love Is a Headache
1938
Hold That Kiss
1938
Personality Kid
1946
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1938
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
Love Affair
1939
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Fly By Night
1942
Harmon of Michigan
1941
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
I Was Framed
1942
Susan and God
1940
Riders of the Purple Sage
1941
Four Mothers
1941
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
Ringside Maisie
1941
Senorita from the West
1945
Forty Little Mothers
1940
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
Big Town Czar
1939
The Main Event
1938
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
King of the Turf
1939
Her Primitive Man
1944
The Canary Comes Across
1938
City Without Men
1943
Corvette K-225
1943
Border Wolves
1938
The Good Old Soak
1937
She Married a Cop
1939
South of Dixie
1944
Lydia
1941
Zanzibar
1940
Double Wedding
1937
Sleepers West
1941
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941
Torpedo Boat
1942
The Brute Man
1946
The Bashful Bachelor
1942
Here Come the Waves
1944
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
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