Oscar O'Shea
Known for ActingBorn 1881-10-07 — died 1960-04-06Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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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.
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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
Captains Courageous
1937 · as Captain Walt Cushman
Without Reservations
1946 · as Conductor (uncredited)
Undercover Agent
1939 · as Pat Murphy
The Roaring Twenties
1939 · as Customer (uncredited)
Of Mice and Men
1939 · as Jackson
Rosalie
1937 · as Mr. Callahan
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Love Affair
1939 · as Priest (uncredited)
Ringside Maisie
1941 · as Conductor
The Mummy's Ghost
1944 · as Museum Watchman
Lydia
1941 · as Doctor Richards
The Tell-Tale Heart
1941 · as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Four Mothers
1941 · as George Edwards (uncredited)
Corvette K-225
1943 · as Capt. Smith
Double Wedding
1937 · as Turnkey (uncredited)
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · as The Judge
Her Primitive Man
1944 · as Jonathan
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942 · as Cardigan, working ranch owner