Oscar O'Shea
Known for: Acting
Born: October 7, 1881
Died: April 6, 1960
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
85 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
7.5
MGM Parade
1955
7.0
One Sunday Afternoon
1948
6.0
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
10.0
Sport of Kings
1947
4.6
The Brute Man
1946
10.0
Personality Kid
1946
6.3
Without Reservations
1946
6.0
Senorita from the West
1945
5.4
Bewitched
1945
5.3
Here Come the Waves
1944
6.5
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
7.0
Haunted Harbor
1944
5.6
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
10.0
South of Dixie
1944
7.5
Her Primitive Man
1944
7.1
Happy Land
1943
6.2
Corvette K-225
1943
7.5
Two Tickets to London
1943
5.7
City Without Men
1943
6.0
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
6.5
Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
7.0
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
5.0
I Was Framed
1942
6.3
The Bashful Bachelor
1942
8.0
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
7.5
Torpedo Boat
1942
6.7
Fly By Night
1942
6.6
The Tell-Tale Heart
1941
8.0
The Officer and the Lady
1941
7.0
Riders of the Purple Sage
1941
6.5
Lydia
1941
7.5
Harmon of Michigan
1941
6.6
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
5.6
Ringside Maisie
1941
7.5
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941
6.4
Sleepers West
1941
6.8
Four Mothers
1941
6.3
The Phantom Submarine
1940
5.7
Always a Bride
1940
5.5
Wildcat Bus
1940
6.5
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
5.7
Pier 13
1940
6.5
Susan and God
1940
5.5
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
6.6
20 Mule Team
1940
6.5
Forty Little Mothers
1940
9.0
Zanzibar
1940
7.3
Of Mice and Men
1939
6.5
Missing Evidence
1939
8.0
The Night of Nights
1939
7.5
The Roaring Twenties
1939
6.4
Those High Grey Walls
1939
7.0
The Star Maker
1939
6.8
She Married a Cop
1939
5.4
Tell No Tales
1939
7.0
Invitation to Happiness
1939
6.8
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
6.8
Lucky Night
1939
7.0
Big Town Czar
1939
4.2
Undercover Agent
1939
7.0
Love Affair
1939
7.0
King of the Turf
1939
7.5
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
6.7
The Shining Hour
1938
6.3
Stablemates
1938
5.5
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
6.0
Campus Cinderella
1938
5.6
Racket Busters
1938
6.0
Rebellious Daughters
1938
8.0
The Main Event
1938
7.0
Numbered Woman
1938
6.5
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1938
7.0
Hold That Kiss
1938
5.5
International Crime
1938
4.8
King of the Newsboys
1938
8.0
Border Wolves
1938
5.3
The Canary Comes Across
1938
6.0
Mannequin
1938
6.5
Love Is a Headache
1938
5.2
Man-Proof
1938
6.0
Rosalie
1937
5.7
You're Only Young Once
1937
6.4
Double Wedding
1937
7.7
Big City
1937
7.4
Captains Courageous
1937
9.0
The Good Old Soak
1937