Oscar O'Shea
Biography
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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.
Filmography
One Sunday Afternoon
1948
as Toby
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
as Pat Daly
Sport of Kings
1947
as Judge Sellers
The Brute Man
1946
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
Personality Kid
1946
as Officer O'Brien
Without Reservations
1946
as Conductor (uncredited)
Senorita from the West
1945
as Dusty
Bewitched
1945
as Capt. O'Malley
Here Come the Waves
1944
as Commodore (uncredited)
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
as Capt. Ethan Perrin
Haunted Harbor
1944
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
as Museum Watchman
South of Dixie
1944
as Colonel Hatcher
Her Primitive Man
1944
as Jonathan
Happy Land
1943
as Father Case (uncredited)
Corvette K-225
1943
as Capt. Smith
Two Tickets to London
1943
as Mr. Tinkle
City Without Men
1943
as Joseph Barton
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
as Doctor McIntyre
Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
as Judge Sanders
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
as Judge Barrington
I Was Framed
1942
as Cal Beamish
The Bashful Bachelor
1942
as Squire Skimp
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
as Cardigan, working ranch owner