Oscar O'Shea
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 (86 titles)
7.5ShowMGM Parade
Self · 1955
7.0MovieOne Sunday Afternoon
Toby · 1948
6.0MovieMy Wild Irish Rose
Pat Daly · 1947
10.0MovieSport of Kings
Judge Sellers · 1947
4.6MovieThe Brute Man
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited) · 1946
10.0MoviePersonality Kid
Officer O'Brien · 1946
6.3MovieWithout Reservations
Conductor (uncredited) · 1946
6.0MovieSenorita from the West
Dusty · 1945
5.4MovieBewitched
Capt. O'Malley · 1945
5.3MovieHere Come the Waves
Commodore (uncredited) · 1944
6.5MovieMystery of the Riverboat
Capt. Ethan Perrin · 1944
7.0MovieHaunted Harbor
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15] · 1944
5.6MovieThe Mummy's Ghost
Museum Watchman · 1944
10.0MovieSouth of Dixie
Colonel Hatcher · 1944
7.5MovieHer Primitive Man
Jonathan · 1944
7.1MovieHappy Land
Father Case (uncredited) · 1943
6.2MovieCorvette K-225
Capt. Smith · 1943
7.5MovieTwo Tickets to London
Mr. Tinkle · 1943
5.7MovieCity Without Men
Joseph Barton · 1943
6.0MovieHalf Way to Shanghai
Doctor McIntyre · 1942
6.5MovieHenry Aldrich, Editor
Judge Sanders · 1942
7.0MovieThe Postman Didn't Ring
Judge Barrington · 1942
5.0MovieI Was Framed
Cal Beamish · 1942
6.3MovieThe Bashful Bachelor
Squire Skimp · 1942