Oscar O'Shea
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1881-10-07
Place of birth
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Cast
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
0.00
Mannequin
1938
5.86
Bewitched
1945
5.30
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
6.44
The Phantom Submarine
1940
6.00
The Officer and the Lady
1941
6.00
Rosalie
1937
5.50
Without Reservations
1946
6.20
Captains Courageous
1937
7.46
Sport of Kings
1947
0.00
Haunted Harbor
1944
6.70
Invitation to Happiness
1939
6.00
Of Mice and Men
1939
7.30
Big City
1937
7.40
Racket Busters
1938
5.10
The Night of Nights
1939
0.00
The Tell-Tale Heart
1941
6.50
The Shining Hour
1938
6.60
Pier 13
1940
5.00
Missing Evidence
1939
5.00
Those High Grey Walls
1939
6.20
Stablemates
1938
4.50
Lucky Night
1939
6.60
Wildcat Bus
1940
4.92
International Crime
1938
5.40
Man-Proof
1938
4.29
One Sunday Afternoon
1948
6.00
Undercover Agent
1939
3.70
Campus Cinderella
1938
5.50
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
4.50
The Star Maker
1939
0.00
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944
6.00
King of the Newsboys
1938
4.00
Two Tickets to London
1943
6.00
Numbered Woman
1938
0.00
Rebellious Daughters
1938
4.50
Happy Land
1943
6.20
Always a Bride
1940
4.50
20 Mule Team
1940
6.00
Tell No Tales
1939
4.60
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
1.00
You're Only Young Once
1937
5.50
Love Is a Headache
1938
5.70
Hold That Kiss
1938
6.50
Personality Kid
1946
0.00
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1938
6.00
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
6.00
Love Affair
1939
6.96
The Roaring Twenties
1939
7.50
Fly By Night
1942
6.40
Harmon of Michigan
1941
5.00
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
5.70
Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
6.00
I Was Framed
1942
4.00
Susan and God
1940
6.50
Riders of the Purple Sage
1941
0.00
Four Mothers
1941
6.20
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
0.00
Ringside Maisie
1941
4.50
Senorita from the West
1945
5.00
Forty Little Mothers
1940
6.20
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
5.60
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
6.65
Big Town Czar
1939
0.00
The Main Event
1938
0.00
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
4.50
King of the Turf
1939
7.00
Her Primitive Man
1944
6.00
The Canary Comes Across
1938
3.50
City Without Men
1943
5.00
Corvette K-225
1943
6.10
Border Wolves
1938
0.00
The Good Old Soak
1937
0.00
She Married a Cop
1939
5.70
South of Dixie
1944
0.00
Lydia
1941
6.50
Zanzibar
1940
0.00
Double Wedding
1937
6.37
Sleepers West
1941
6.30
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941
0.00
Torpedo Boat
1942
6.00
The Brute Man
1946
4.50
The Bashful Bachelor
1942
4.50
Here Come the Waves
1944
5.00
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
7.50