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
Also known As
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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
as Judge Barrington
1938
as 'Pa' Cassidy
1945
as Capt. O'Malley
1940
as The Judge
1940
as Captain Velsar
1941
as Dan Regan
1937
as Mr. Callahan
1946
as Conductor (uncredited)
1937
as Captain Walt Cushman
1947
as Judge Sellers
1944
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1939
as Divorce Judge
1939
as Jackson
1937
as John C. Andrews
1938
as Pop Wilson
1939
as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
1941
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1938
as Charlie Collins
1940
as Skipper Kelly
1939
as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1939
as Warden
1938
as Pete Whalen
1939
as Police Lieutenant
1940
as Charles Dawson
1938
as Heath
1938
as Gus the Bartender
1948
as Toby
1939
as Pat Murphy
1938
as Horace Howard
1940
as Dr. Emery
1939
as Mr. Flannigan
1944
as Capt. Ethan Perrin
1938
as Mr. Stephens
1943
as Mr. Tinkle
1938
as Oscar
1938
as Dad Elliott
1943
as Father Case (uncredited)
1940
as Uncle Dan Jarvis
1940
as Train Conductor
1939
as Sam O'Neil
1938
as Captain Walters
1937
as Sheriff (uncredited)
1938
as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
1938
as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
1946
as Officer O'Brien
1938
as Gibson (uncredited)
1947
as Pat Daly
1939
as Priest (uncredited)
1939
as Customer (uncredited)
1942
as Pa Prescott
1941
as 'Pop' Branch
1939
as Mike Halloran
1942
as Judge Sanders
1942
as Cal Beamish
1940
as Samr (uncredited)
1941
as Noah Judkins
1941
as George Edwards (uncredited)
1942
as Cardigan, working ranch owner
1941
as Conductor
1945
as Dusty
1940
as Janitor at Train Station
1944
as Museum Watchman
1941
as Dr. West
1939
as Pa Daley
1938
as Captain Rorty
1942
as Doctor McIntyre
1939
as Bartender
1944
as Jonathan
1938
as Warden Clayton
1943
as Joseph Barton
1943
as Capt. Smith
1938
as Judge Coleman
1937
as Jake
1939
as Pa Duffy
1944
as Colonel Hatcher
1941
as Doctor Richards
1940
as Captain Craig
1937
as Turnkey (uncredited)
1941
as McGowan, a Engineer
1941
as Capt. Bob Morrissey
1942
as Captain Mike
1946
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
1942
as Squire Skimp
1944
as Commodore (uncredited)
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