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.
86 acting credits
Acting · 86
MGM Parade
1955
Captains Courageous
1937
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Love Affair
1939
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Lydia
1941
Without Reservations
1946
Sleepers West
1941
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
Rosalie
1937
You're Only Young Once
1937
Happy Land
1943
Double Wedding
1937
Stablemates
1938
Of Mice and Men
1939
Four Mothers
1941
Hold That Kiss
1938
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
Mannequin
1938
Here Come the Waves
1944
City Without Men
1943
Racket Busters
1938
Bewitched
1945
Man-Proof
1938
20 Mule Team
1940
Fly By Night
1942
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
Two Tickets to London
1943
The Night of Nights
1939
The Brute Man
1946
Lucky Night
1939
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
The Tell-Tale Heart
1941
The Shining Hour
1938
Missing Evidence
1939
Numbered Woman
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Always a Bride
1940
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
The Officer and the Lady
1941
Corvette K-225
1943
Riders of the Purple Sage
1941
Wildcat Bus
1940
Big Town Czar
1939
Senorita from the West
1945
Forty Little Mothers
1940
Ringside Maisie
1941
One Sunday Afternoon
1948
Big City
1937
Personality Kid
1946
Her Primitive Man
1944
The Bashful Bachelor
1942
Love Is a Headache
1938
Those High Grey Walls
1939
She Married a Cop
1939
The Star Maker
1939
International Crime
1938
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941
Harmon of Michigan
1941
Pier 13
1940
King of the Newsboys
1938
Tell No Tales
1939
King of the Turf
1939
Undercover Agent
1939
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1938
The Good Old Soak
1937
The Phantom Submarine
1940
Border Wolves
1938
Susan and God
1940
The Main Event
1938
Haunted Harbor
1944
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
Invitation to Happiness
1939
I Was Framed
1942
Rebellious Daughters
1938
Zanzibar
1940
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
Torpedo Boat
1942
Campus Cinderella
1938
The Canary Comes Across
1938
South of Dixie
1944
Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
Sport of Kings
1947