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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
Love Affair
(1939)
Priest (uncredited)
Captains Courageous
(1937)
Captain Walt Cushman
The Roaring Twenties
(1939)
Customer (uncredited)
The Mummy's Ghost
(1944)
Museum Watchman
Of Mice and Men
(1939)
Jackson
Man-Proof
(1938)
Gus the Bartender
Full Filmography
Acting
Rosalie
(1937)
Mr. Callahan
You're Only Young Once
(1937)
Sheriff (uncredited)
Double Wedding
(1937)
Turnkey (uncredited)
The Good Old Soak
(1937)
Jake
Captains Courageous
(1937)
Captain Walt Cushman
Big City
(1937)
John C. Andrews
Numbered Woman
(1938)
Oscar
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
(1938)
Gibson (uncredited)
Mannequin
(1938)
'Pa' Cassidy
The Canary Comes Across
(1938)
Warden Clayton
The Shining Hour
(1938)
Charlie Collins
Racket Busters
(1938)
Pop Wilson
Youth Takes a Fling
(1938)
Captain Walters
Hold That Kiss
(1938)
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
The Main Event
(1938)
Captain Rorty
Stablemates
(1938)
Pete Whalen
Man-Proof
(1938)
Gus the Bartender
Border Wolves
(1938)
Judge Coleman
International Crime
(1938)
Heath
Rebellious Daughters
(1938)
Dad Elliott
Campus Cinderella
(1938)
Horace Howard
Love Is a Headache
(1938)
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
King of the Newsboys
(1938)
Mr. Stephens
Undercover Agent
(1939)
Pat Murphy
Lucky Night
(1939)
Police Lieutenant
The Star Maker
(1939)
Mr. Flannigan
Those High Grey Walls
(1939)
Warden
The Night of Nights
(1939)
Mr. Conway (uncredited)
Of Mice and Men
(1939)
Jackson
Invitation to Happiness
(1939)
Divorce Judge
Missing Evidence
(1939)
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
S.O.S Tidal Wave
(1939)
Mike Halloran
Big Town Czar
(1939)
Pa Daley
King of the Turf
(1939)
Bartender
Tell No Tales
(1939)
Sam O'Neil
She Married a Cop
(1939)
Pa Duffy
Love Affair
(1939)
Priest (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
(1939)
Customer (uncredited)
Always a Bride
(1940)
Uncle Dan Jarvis
20 Mule Team
(1940)
Train Conductor
You Can't Fool Your Wife
(1940)
Dr. Emery
Wildcat Bus
(1940)
Charles Dawson
Pier 13
(1940)
Skipper Kelly
Stranger on the Third Floor
(1940)
The Judge
The Phantom Submarine
(1940)
Captain Velsar
Zanzibar
(1940)
Captain Craig
Forty Little Mothers
(1940)
Janitor at Train Station
Susan and God
(1940)
Samr (uncredited)
Harmon of Michigan
(1941)
'Pop' Branch
The Tell-Tale Heart
(1941)
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Sleepers West
(1941)
McGowan, a Engineer
Ringside Maisie
(1941)
Conductor
Four Mothers
(1941)
George Edwards (uncredited)
Mutiny in the Arctic
(1941)
Capt. Bob Morrissey
Blossoms in the Dust
(1941)
Dr. West
Riders of the Purple Sage
(1941)
Noah Judkins
Lydia
(1941)
Doctor Richards
The Officer and the Lady
(1941)
Dan Regan
Fly-By-Night
(1942)
Pa Prescott
The Postman Didn't Ring
(1942)
Judge Barrington
The Bashful Bachelor
(1942)
Squire Skimp
Half Way to Shanghai
(1942)
Doctor McIntyre
Dudes Are Pretty People
(1942)
Cardigan, working ranch owner
Henry Aldrich, Editor
(1942)
Judge Sanders
Torpedo Boat
(1942)
Captain Mike
I Was Framed
(1942)
Cal Beamish
Corvette K-225
(1943)
Capt. Smith
City Without Men
(1943)
Joseph Barton
Happy Land
(1943)
Father Case (uncredited)
Two Tickets to London
(1943)
Mr. Tinkle
South of Dixie
(1944)
Colonel Hatcher
Her Primitive Man
(1944)
Jonathan
The Mummy's Ghost
(1944)
Museum Watchman
Mystery of the Riverboat
(1944)
Capt. Ethan Perrin
Here Come the Waves
(1944)
Commodore (uncredited)
Haunted Harbor
(1944)
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
Bewitched
(1945)
Capt. O'Malley
Senorita from the West
(1945)
Dusty
The Brute Man
(1946)
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
Without Reservations
(1946)
Conductor (uncredited)
Personality Kid
(1946)
Officer O'Brien
My Wild Irish Rose
(1947)
Pat Daly
Sport of Kings
(1947)
Judge Sellers
One Sunday Afternoon
(1948)
Toby