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