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