Oscar O'Shea
Acting
1881-10-07 · Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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(87)
tvMGM Parade
as Self · 1955 · 9.0
tvMGM Parade
as self · 1955 · 9.0
movieOne Sunday Afternoon
as Toby · 1948 · 7.0
movieMy Wild Irish Rose
as Pat Daly · 1947 · 6.0
movieSport of Kings
as Judge Sellers · 1947 · 10.0
movieThe Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited) · 1946 · 4.6
moviePersonality Kid
as Officer O'Brien · 1946 · 10.0
movieWithout Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited) · 1946 · 6.2
movieSenorita from the West
as Dusty · 1945 · 6.0
movieBewitched
as Capt. O'Malley · 1945 · 5.4
movieHere Come the Waves
as Commodore (uncredited) · 1944 · 5.3
movieMystery of the Riverboat
as Capt. Ethan Perrin · 1944 · 6.5
movieHaunted Harbor
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15] · 1944 · 7.0
movieThe Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Watchman · 1944 · 5.6
movieSouth of Dixie
as Colonel Hatcher · 1944 · 10.0
movieHer Primitive Man
as Jonathan · 1944 · 7.5
movieHappy Land
as Father Case (uncredited) · 1943 · 7.1
movieCorvette K-225
as Capt. Smith · 1943 · 6.2
movieTwo Tickets to London
as Mr. Tinkle · 1943 · 7.5
movieCity Without Men
as Joseph Barton · 1943 · 5.7
movieHalf Way to Shanghai
as Doctor McIntyre · 1942 · 6.0
movieHenry Aldrich, Editor
as Judge Sanders · 1942 · 6.5
movieThe Postman Didn't Ring
as Judge Barrington · 1942 · 7.0
movieI Was Framed
as Cal Beamish · 1942 · 5.0