O.Z. Whitehead
American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.
Acting
Movie
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Herbert Carruthers
1962
Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
as Al Joad
1940
Movie
The Lion in Winter
as Bishop of Durham
1968
Movie
The Horse Soldiers
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
1959
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Newton
1955
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Simms
1955
Movie
Two Rode Together
as Lt. Whitehead
1961
TV
Perry Mason
as Harry Beacom
1957
TV
Gunsmoke
as Hank Blenis
1955
Movie
Panic in Year Zero!
as Hogan
1962
Movie
The Last Hurrah
as Norman Cass Jr.
1958
Movie
Summer Magic
as Mr. Perkins
1963
Movie
A Song Is Born
as Professor Oddly
1948
Movie
Road House
as Arthur
1948
Movie
Beware, My Lovely
as Mr. Franks
1952
Movie
The Hoodlum
as Breckenridge
1951
Movie
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
as Isaac Goodpasture
1958
Movie
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Zeke
1951
Movie
Ulysses
as Alexander J. Dowie
1967
TV
Hazel
1961
Movie
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mr. Billings
1949
Movie
The Scarf
as Whoopie
1951
Movie
The Scoundrel
as Calhoun
1935
TV
Studio One
as Peter Kovalesky
1948