Oscar O'Shea
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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.
Acting
Movie
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Movie
The Roaring Twenties
as Customer (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Captains Courageous
as Captain Walt Cushman
1937
Movie
Love Affair
as Priest (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Stranger on the Third Floor
as The Judge
1940
Movie
Of Mice and Men
as Jackson
1939
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The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Watchman
1944
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Double Wedding
as Turnkey (uncredited)
1937
Movie
Blossoms in the Dust
as Dr. West
1941
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The Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
1946
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Mannequin
as 'Pa' Cassidy
1938
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The Shining Hour
as Charlie Collins
1938
Movie
Bewitched
as Capt. O'Malley
1945
Movie
Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Susan and God
as Samr (uncredited)
1940
Movie
Sleepers West
as McGowan, a Engineer
1941
Movie
Racket Busters
as Pop Wilson
1938
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International Crime
as Heath
1938
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The Tell-Tale Heart
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1941
Movie
Corvette K-225
as Capt. Smith
1943
Movie
Lydia
as Doctor Richards
1941
Movie
You're Only Young Once
as Sheriff (uncredited)
1937
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Here Come the Waves
as Commodore (uncredited)
1944
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Man-Proof
as Gus the Bartender
1938