
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