Oscar O'Shea

Known for ActingBorn 1881-10-07Died 1960-04-06Peterborough, 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.Read more

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Sport of Kings

Personality Kid

South of Dixie

MGM Parade

Zanzibar

The Good Old Soak

Dudes Are Pretty People

The Officer and the Lady

The Night of Nights

The Main Event

Border Wolves

Big City

Her Primitive Man

The Roaring Twenties

Two Tickets to London

Angels with Dirty Faces

Torpedo Boat

Harmon of Michigan

Mutiny in the Arctic

Captains Courageous

Of Mice and Men

Happy Land

One Sunday Afternoon

Haunted Harbor

The Postman Didn't Ring

Riders of the Purple Sage

Invitation to Happiness

The Star Maker

Love Affair

Big Town Czar

King of the Turf

Numbered Woman

Hold That Kiss

Four Mothers

Lucky Night

S.O.S Tidal Wave

She Married a Cop

Fly By Night

Blossoms in the Dust

The Shining Hour

Snow Gets in Your Eyes

The Tell-Tale Heart

20 Mule Team

Lydia

Mystery of the Riverboat

Henry Aldrich, Editor

Susan and God

Forty Little Mothers