Oscar O'Shea
Acting
🎂 1881-10-07
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.
Cast credits(85)
Customer (uncredited)
1939
Priest (uncredited)
1939
Captain Walt Cushman
1937
Jackson
1939
1938
Museum Watchman
1944
Dr. West
1941
Joseph Barton
1943
Capt. O'Malley
1945
Doctor Richards
1941
Dad Elliott
1938
Conductor (uncredited)
1946
Turnkey (uncredited)
1937
Janitor at Train Station
1940
Mr. Stephens
1938
George Edwards (uncredited)
1941
Pa Daley
1939
The Judge
1940
John C. Andrews
1937
Charlie Collins
1938
Capt. Smith
1943
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
1946
Pat Daly
1947
Pa Duffy
1939
Capt. Ethan Perrin
1944
Cardigan, working ranch owner
1942
'Pa' Cassidy
1938
Mr. Tinkle
1943
Mr. Callahan
1937
Heath
1938
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1939
Warden
1939
Sheriff (uncredited)
1937
Gus the Bartender
1938
Sam O'Neil
1939
Mike Halloran
1939
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1944
McGowan, a Engineer
1941
Conductor
1941
Captain Rorty
1938
Police Lieutenant
1939
Toby
1948
Captain Walters
1938
Father Case (uncredited)
1943
Samr (uncredited)
1940
Divorce Judge
1939
Jonathan
1944
Captain Craig
1940
Pa Prescott
1942
Judge Barrington
1942
Train Conductor
1940
Judge Sanders
1942
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
1938
Mr. Conway (uncredited)
1939
Pop Wilson
1938
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1941
Captain Mike
1942
Doctor McIntyre
1942
Cal Beamish
1942
Mr. Flannigan
1939
Dan Regan
1941
Commodore (uncredited)
1944
Pete Whalen
1938
Bartender
1939
Dusty
1945
Colonel Hatcher
1944
Charles Dawson
1940
Pat Murphy
1939
Skipper Kelly
1940
'Pop' Branch
1941
Officer O'Brien
1946
Capt. Bob Morrissey
1941
Dr. Emery
1940
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
1938
Oscar
1938
Jake
1937
Squire Skimp
1942
Gibson (uncredited)
1938
Horace Howard
1938
Uncle Dan Jarvis
1940
Warden Clayton
1938
Judge Coleman
1938
Noah Judkins
1941
Judge Sellers
1947
Captain Velsar
1940