
Oscar O'Shea
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday7 October 1881
Died6 April 1960 (age 78)
Place of birthPeterborough, Ontario, Canada
Known credits86
Biography
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 The…

MGM Parade
1955 · Self

MGM Parade
1955 · self

One Sunday Afternoon
1948 · Toby

My Wild Irish Rose
1947 · Pat Daly

Sport of Kings
1947 · Judge Sellers

The Brute Man
1946 · Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)

Personality Kid
1946 · Officer O'Brien

Without Reservations
1946 · Conductor (uncredited)

Senorita from the West
1945 · Dusty

Bewitched
1945 · Capt. O'Malley

Here Come the Waves
1944 · Commodore (uncredited)

Mystery of the Riverboat
1944 · Capt. Ethan Perrin

Haunted Harbor
1944 · John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]

The Mummy's Ghost
1944 · Museum Watchman

South of Dixie
1944 · Colonel Hatcher

Her Primitive Man
1944 · Jonathan

Happy Land
1943 · Father Case (uncredited)

Corvette K-225
1943 · Capt. Smith

Two Tickets to London
1943 · Mr. Tinkle

City Without Men
1943 · Joseph Barton

Half Way to Shanghai
1942 · Doctor McIntyre

Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942 · Judge Sanders

The Postman Didn't Ring
1942 · Judge Barrington

I Was Framed
1942 · Cal Beamish

The Bashful Bachelor
1942 · Squire Skimp

Dudes Are Pretty People
1942 · Cardigan, working ranch owner

Torpedo Boat
1942 · Captain Mike

Fly By Night
1942 · Pa Prescott

The Tell-Tale Heart
1941 · First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

The Officer and the Lady
1941 · Dan Regan

Riders of the Purple Sage
1941 · Noah Judkins

Lydia
1941 · Doctor Richards

Harmon of Michigan
1941 · 'Pop' Branch

Blossoms in the Dust
1941 · Dr. West

Ringside Maisie
1941 · Conductor

Mutiny in the Arctic
1941 · Capt. Bob Morrissey

Sleepers West
1941 · McGowan, a Engineer

Four Mothers
1941 · George Edwards (uncredited)

The Phantom Submarine
1940 · Captain Velsar

Always a Bride
1940 · Uncle Dan Jarvis

Wildcat Bus
1940 · Charles Dawson

Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · The Judge

Pier 13
1940 · Skipper Kelly

Susan and God
1940 · Sam (uncredited)

You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940 · Dr. Emery

20 Mule Team
1940 · Train Conductor

Forty Little Mothers
1940 · Janitor at Train Station

Zanzibar
1940 · Captain Craig
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