Oscar O'Shea

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1881-10-07 (79 years old)

Deathday

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 en...

Acting

1942

The Postman Didn't Ring

as Judge Barrington

1938

Mannequin

as 'Pa' Cassidy

1945

Bewitched

as Capt. O'Malley

1940

The Phantom Submarine

as Captain Velsar

1941

1937

Rosalie

as Mr. Callahan

1946

Without Reservations

as Conductor (uncredited)

1937

Captains Courageous

as Captain Walt Cushman

1947

Sport of Kings

as Judge Sellers

1944

Haunted Harbor

as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]

1939

Invitation to Happiness

as Divorce Judge

1939

Of Mice and Men

as Jackson

1937

Big City

as John C. Andrews

1938

Racket Busters

as Pop Wilson

1939

The Night of Nights

as Mr. Conway (uncredited)

1941

The Tell-Tale Heart

as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

1938

The Shining Hour

as Charlie Collins

1940

Pier 13

as Skipper Kelly

1939

Missing Evidence

as John C. 'Pop' Andrews

1938

Stablemates

as Pete Whalen

1939

Lucky Night

as Police Lieutenant

1940

Wildcat Bus

as Charles Dawson

1938

Man-Proof

as Gus the Bartender

1939

Undercover Agent

as Pat Murphy

1938

Campus Cinderella

as Horace Howard

1940

1939

The Star Maker

as Mr. Flannigan

1944

Mystery of the Riverboat

as Capt. Ethan Perrin

1938

King of the Newsboys

as Mr. Stephens

1943

1938

1938

Rebellious Daughters

as Dad Elliott

1943

Happy Land

as Father Case (uncredited)

1940

Always a Bride

as Uncle Dan Jarvis

1940

20 Mule Team

as Train Conductor

1939

Tell No Tales

as Sam O'Neil

1938

Youth Takes a Fling

as Captain Walters

1937

You're Only Young Once

as Sheriff (uncredited)

1938

Love Is a Headache

as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)

1938

Hold That Kiss

as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes

1946

Personality Kid

as Officer O'Brien

1938

Snow Gets in Your Eyes

as Gibson (uncredited)

1947

1939

Love Affair

as Priest (uncredited)

1939

The Roaring Twenties

as Customer (uncredited)

1942

Fly By Night

as Pa Prescott

1941

Harmon of Michigan

as 'Pop' Branch

1939

S.O.S Tidal Wave

as Mike Halloran

1942

Henry Aldrich, Editor

as Judge Sanders

1942

I Was Framed

as Cal Beamish

1940

Susan and God

as Samr (uncredited)

1941

1941

Four Mothers

as George Edwards (uncredited)

1942

Dudes Are Pretty People

as Cardigan, working ranch owner

1941

Ringside Maisie

as Conductor

1940

Forty Little Mothers

as Janitor at Train Station

1944

The Mummy's Ghost

as Museum Watchman

1941

1939

Big Town Czar

as Pa Daley

1938

The Main Event

as Captain Rorty

1942

Half Way to Shanghai

as Doctor McIntyre

1939

King of the Turf

as Bartender

1944

1938

The Canary Comes Across

as Warden Clayton

1943

City Without Men

as Joseph Barton

1943

Corvette K-225

as Capt. Smith

1938

Border Wolves

as Judge Coleman

1939

1944

South of Dixie

as Colonel Hatcher

1941

Lydia

as Doctor Richards

1940

Zanzibar

as Captain Craig

1937

Double Wedding

as Turnkey (uncredited)

1941

Sleepers West

as McGowan, a Engineer

1941

Mutiny in the Arctic

as Capt. Bob Morrissey

1942

Torpedo Boat

as Captain Mike

1946

The Brute Man

as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)

1942

The Bashful Bachelor

as Squire Skimp

1944

Here Come the Waves

as Commodore (uncredited)

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