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Oscar O'Shea

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1881-10-07

Day of Death

1960-04-06

Place of Birth

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Oscar O'Shea

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 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.

Filmography (85)

⭐ 7.0 Role: Toby

One Sunday Afternoon

1948
⭐ 6.0 Role: Pat Daly

My Wild Irish Rose

1947
⭐ 10.0 Role: Judge Sellers

Sport of Kings

1947
⭐ 4.6 Role: Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)

The Brute Man

1946
⭐ 10.0 Role: Officer O'Brien

Personality Kid

1946
⭐ 6.2 Role: Conductor (uncredited)

Without Reservations

1946
⭐ 6.0 Role: Dusty

Senorita from the West

1945
⭐ 5.4 Role: Capt. O'Malley

Bewitched

1945
⭐ 5.3 Role: Commodore (uncredited)

Here Come the Waves

1944
⭐ 6.5 Role: Capt. Ethan Perrin

Mystery of the Riverboat

1944
⭐ 7.0 Role: John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]

Haunted Harbor

1944
⭐ 5.6 Role: Museum Watchman

The Mummy's Ghost

1944
⭐ 10.0 Role: Colonel Hatcher

South of Dixie

1944
⭐ 7.5 Role: Jonathan

Her Primitive Man

1944
⭐ 7.1 Role: Father Case (uncredited)

Happy Land

1943