Oscar O'Shea

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 1881-10-07

Died: 1960-04-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1937	The Good Old Soak	Jake	0
2	1937	Captains Courageous	Captain Walt Cushman	75
3	1937	Big City	John C. Andrews	74
4	1937	Double Wedding	Turnkey (uncredited)	65
5	1937	You're Only Young Once	Sheriff (uncredited)	55
6	1937	Rosalie	Mr. Callahan	55
7	1938	Man-Proof	Gus the Bartender	48
8	1938	Love Is a Headache	Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)	57
9	1938	Mannequin	'Pa' Cassidy	60
10	1938	The Canary Comes Across	Warden Clayton	35
11	1938	Border Wolves	Judge Coleman	0
12	1938	King of the Newsboys	Mr. Stephens	60
13	1938	International Crime	Heath	54
14	1938	Hold That Kiss	Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes	65
15	1938	Snow Gets in Your Eyes	Gibson (uncredited)	60
16	1938	Numbered Woman	Oscar	0
17	1938	The Main Event	Captain Rorty	0
18	1938	Rebellious Daughters	Dad Elliott	50
19	1938	Racket Busters	Pop Wilson	51
20	1938	Campus Cinderella	Horace Howard	55
21	1938	Youth Takes a Fling	Captain Walters	10
22	1938	Stablemates	Pete Whalen	45
23	1938	The Shining Hour	Charlie Collins	66
24	1939	King of the Turf	Bartender	70
25	1939	Love Affair	Priest	70
26	1939	Undercover Agent	Pat Murphy	48
27	1939	Big Town Czar	Pa Daley	0
28	1939	Lucky Night	Police Lieutenant	66
29	1939	S.O.S Tidal Wave	Mike Halloran	57
30	1939	Invitation to Happiness	Divorce Judge	0
31	1939	Tell No Tales	Sam O'Neil	53
32	1939	She Married a Cop	Pa Duffy	50
33	1939	The Star Maker	Mr. Flannigan	0
34	1939	Those High Grey Walls	Warden	62
35	1939	The Roaring Twenties	Customer (uncredited)	75
36	1939	The Night of Nights	Mr. Conway (uncredited)	0
37	1939	Missing Evidence	John C. 'Pop' Andrews	0
38	1939	Of Mice and Men	Jackson	73
39	1940	Zanzibar	Captain Craig	0
40	1940	Forty Little Mothers	Janitor at Train Station	62
41	1940	20 Mule Team	Train Conductor	60
42	1940	You Can't Fool Your Wife	Dr. Emery	45
43	1940	Susan and God	Samr (uncredited)	65
44	1940	Pier 13	Skipper Kelly	50
45	1940	Stranger on the Third Floor	The Judge	65
46	1940	Wildcat Bus	Charles Dawson	46
47	1940	Always a Bride	Uncle Dan Jarvis	45
48	1940	The Phantom Submarine	Captain Velsar	60
49	1941	Four Mothers	George Edwards (uncredited)	57
50	1941	Sleepers West	McGowan, a Engineer	63
51	1941	Mutiny in the Arctic	Capt. Bob Morrissey	0
52	1941	Ringside Maisie	Conductor	70
53	1941	Blossoms in the Dust	Dr. West	65
54	1941	Harmon of Michigan	'Pop' Branch	0
55	1941	Lydia	Doctor Richards	64
56	1941	Riders of the Purple Sage	Noah Judkins	0
57	1941	The Officer and the Lady	Dan Regan	60
58	1941	The Tell-Tale Heart	First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)	65
59	1942	Fly By Night	Pa Prescott	64
60	1942	Torpedo Boat	Captain Mike	60
61	1942	Dudes Are Pretty People	Cardigan, working ranch owner	0
62	1942	The Bashful Bachelor	Squire Skimp	45
63	1942	I Was Framed	Cal Beamish	40
64	1942	The Postman Didn't Ring	Judge Barrington	0
65	1942	Henry Aldrich, Editor	Judge Sanders	60
66	1942	Half Way to Shanghai	Doctor McIntyre	0
67	1943	City Without Men	Joseph Barton	50
68	1943	Two Tickets to London	Mr. Tinkle	60
69	1943	Corvette K-225	Capt. Smith	62
70	1943	Happy Land	Father Case (uncredited)	62
71	1944	Her Primitive Man	Jonathan	60
72	1944	South of Dixie	Colonel Hatcher	0
73	1944	The Mummy's Ghost	Museum Watchman	58
74	1944	Haunted Harbor	John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]	67
75	1944	Mystery of the Riverboat	Capt. Ethan Perrin	60
76	1944	Here Come the Waves	Commodore (uncredited)	50
77	1945	Bewitched	Capt. O'Malley	53
78	1945	Senorita from the West	Dusty	50
79	1946	Without Reservations	Conductor (uncredited)	63
80	1946	Personality Kid	Officer O'Brien	0
81	1946	The Brute Man	Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)	45
82	1947	Sport of Kings	Judge Sellers	0
83	1947	My Wild Irish Rose	Pat Daly	60
84	1948	One Sunday Afternoon	Toby	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	No Data	No Data	No Data	No Data