Oscar O'Shea
Known for: Acting
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
Series
MGM Parade
Self
1955
Series
MGM Parade
self
1955
Film
Captains Courageous
Captain Walt Cushman
1937
Film
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Film
The Roaring Twenties
Customer (uncredited)
1939
Film
Without Reservations
Conductor (uncredited)
1946
Film
Rosalie
Mr. Callahan
1937
Film
Love Affair
Priest (uncredited)
1939
Film
Ringside Maisie
Conductor
1941
Film
The Mummy's Ghost
Museum Watchman
1944
Film
Blossoms in the Dust
Dr. West
1941
Film
Double Wedding
Turnkey (uncredited)
1937
Film
Of Mice and Men
Jackson
1939
Film
Corvette K-225
Capt. Smith
1943
Film
Undercover Agent
Pat Murphy
1939
Film
Her Primitive Man
Jonathan
1944
Film
Four Mothers
George Edwards (uncredited)
1941
Film
Stranger on the Third Floor
The Judge
1940
Film
The Shining Hour
Charlie Collins
1938
Film
Sleepers West
McGowan, a Engineer
1941
Film
Mystery of the Riverboat
Capt. Ethan Perrin
1944
Film
Happy Land
Father Case (uncredited)
1943
Film
Racket Busters
Pop Wilson
1938
Film
Lucky Night
Police Lieutenant
1939
Film
Mannequin
'Pa' Cassidy
1938
Film
Here Come the Waves
Commodore (uncredited)
1944
Film
Those High Grey Walls
Warden
1939
Film
I Was Framed
Cal Beamish
1942
Film
Always a Bride
Uncle Dan Jarvis
1940
Film
Man-Proof
Gus the Bartender
1938
Film
Bewitched
Capt. O'Malley
1945
Film
Lydia
Doctor Richards
1941
Film
Susan and God
Samr (uncredited)
1940
Film
Invitation to Happiness
Divorce Judge
1939
Film
Dudes Are Pretty People
Cardigan, working ranch owner
1942
Film
The Night of Nights
Mr. Conway (uncredited)
1939
Film
My Wild Irish Rose
Pat Daly
1947
Film
Numbered Woman
Desk Sgt. Rourke
1938
Film
The Tell-Tale Heart
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1941
Film
Missing Evidence
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1939
Film
The Star Maker
Mr. Flannigan
1939
Film
Harmon of Michigan
'Pop' Branch
1941
Film
Wildcat Bus
Charles Dawson
1940
Film
Stablemates
Pete Whalen
1938
Film
Big City
John C. Andrews
1937
Film
Hold That Kiss
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
1938
Film
One Sunday Afternoon
Toby
1948
Film
Big Town Czar
Pa Daley
1939
Film
Two Tickets to London
Mr. Tinkle
1943
Film
You're Only Young Once
Sheriff (uncredited)
1937
Film
City Without Men
Joseph Barton
1943
Film
Fly By Night
Pa Prescott
1942
Film
20 Mule Team
Train Conductor
1940
Film
Tell No Tales
Sam O'Neil
1939
Film
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Mike Halloran
1939
Film
The Postman Didn't Ring
Judge Barrington
1942
Film
South of Dixie
Colonel Hatcher
1944
Film
The Bashful Bachelor
Squire Skimp
1942
Film
Youth Takes a Fling
Captain Walters
1938
Film
The Canary Comes Across
Warden Clayton
1938
Film
King of the Turf
Bartender
1939
Film
Mutiny in the Arctic
Capt. Bob Morrissey
1941
Film
Love Is a Headache
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
1938
Film
She Married a Cop
Pa Duffy
1939
Film
The Brute Man
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
1946
Film
The Phantom Submarine
Captain Velsar
1940
Film
Sport of Kings
Judge Sellers
1947
Film
Haunted Harbor
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1944
Film
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Dr. Emery
1940
Film
King of the Newsboys
Mr. Stephens
1938
Film
Zanzibar
Captain Craig
1940
Film
Forty Little Mothers
Janitor at Train Station
1940
Film
Rebellious Daughters
Dad Elliott
1938
Film
Half Way to Shanghai
Doctor McIntyre
1942
Film
International Crime
Heath
1938
Film
The Officer and the Lady
Dan Regan
1941
Film
Personality Kid
Officer O'Brien
1946
Film
The Main Event
Captain Rorty
1938
Film
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Judge Sanders
1942
Film
Campus Cinderella
Horace Howard
1938
Film
The Good Old Soak
Jake
1937
Film
Border Wolves
Judge Coleman
1938
Film
Senorita from the West
Dusty
1945
Film
Pier 13
Skipper Kelly
1940
Film
Torpedo Boat
Captain Mike
1942
Film
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Gibson (uncredited)
1938
Film
Riders of the Purple Sage
Noah Judkins
1941