O.Z. Whitehead

Known for ActingBorn 1911-03-01Died 1998-07-29New York City, New York, USA

American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.Read more

Movies & web series

Hello, Stranger

The Body Beautiful

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Perry Mason

The Grapes of Wrath

The Lion in Winter

My Brother Talks to Horses

The Last Hurrah

Philadelphia, Here I Come

Ma and Pa Kettle

The Horse Soldiers

Hazel

Summer Magic

Gunsmoke

Road House

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Two Rode Together

Journey Into Light

Panic in Year Zero!

A Song Is Born

For Men Only

FBI Girl

The Hoodlum

Beware, My Lovely

The Scoundrel

Ulysses

Comin' Round the Mountain

The Scarf

Studio One

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

Suspense

The San Francisco Story

Cavalcade of America