Oscar O'Shea
Oscar O'Shea was a Canadian-American character actor with over 100 film appearances from 1937 to 1953.
Early years
O'Shea was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Acting
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.
O'Shea's first film was Captains Courageous.
Management
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."
Death
O'Shea died in Hollywood, California, in 1960 at age 78.
Selected filmography
The Good Old Soak as Jake Captains Courageous as Captain Walt CushmanBig City as John C. AndrewsDouble Wedding as Turnkey Thoroughbreds Don't Cry as Man Seated Next to Wilkins You're Only Young Once as Sheriff Mannequin as 'Pa' CassidyRosalie as Mr. CallahanMan-Proof as GusLove Is a Headache as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman Border Wolves as Judge ColemanKing of the Newsboys as Mr. StephensInternational Crime as HeathHold That Kiss as Pop, Man Bringing Usher's Clothes Numbered Woman The Main Event as Captain RortyRebellious Daughters as Dad ElliottRacket Busters as Pop WilsonYouth Takes a Fling as Captain WaltersStablemates as Pete WhalenThe Shining Hour as Charlie CollinsAngels with Dirty Faces as Kennedy King of the Turf as BartenderLove Affair as Priest Undercover Agent as Pat MurphyBig Town Czar as Pa DaleyLucky Night as Police LieutenantTell No Tales as Sam O'NeilS.O.S. Tidal Wave as Mike HalloranInvitation to Happiness as Divorce JudgeShe Married a Cop as Pa DuffyThe Star Maker as Mr. FlanniganThose High Grey Walls as WardenThe Roaring Twenties as Customer Missing Evidence as John C. 'Pop' AndrewsThe Night of Nights as Mr. Conway Of Mice and Men as JacksonI Take This Woman as Dowling Zanzibar as Captain CraigForty Little Mothers as Janitor at Train Station 20 Mule Team as Train ConductorYou Can't Fool Your Wife as Dr. Emery, Colony College ChaplainSusan and God as Samr Pier 13 as Skipper KellyStranger on the Third Floor as The JudgeWildcat Bus as Charles DawsonThe Bride Wore Crutches as Pop Always a Bride as Uncle Dan JarvisThe Phantom Submarine as Captain VelsarFour Mothers as George Edwards Sleepers West as Engineer McGowanMutiny in the Arctic as Capt. Bob MorrisseyBlossoms in the Dust as Dr. West Accent on Love as MagistrateRingside Maisie as ConductorHarmon of Michigan as 'Pop' BranchLydia as Doctor Richards Riders of the Purple Sage as Noah JudkinsThe Officer and the Lady as Dan ReganFly-by-Night as Pa PrescottTorpedo Boat as Captain MikeThe Bashful Bachelor as Squire SkimpI Was Framed as Cal BeamishThe Postman Didn't Ring as Judge BarringtonJust Off Broadway as PopHalfway to Shanghai as Doctor McIntyreSin Town as Train Conductor Henry Aldrich, Editor as Judge SandersLady Bodyguard as Justice of the Peace City Without Men as Joseph BartonTwo Weeks to Live as Squire Skimp Good Morning, Judge as MagistrateThree Hearts for Julia as Stage Doorman Two Tickets to London as Mr. TinkleGals, Incorporated as Justice The Good Fellows as Great Grand Caesar Corvette K-225 as Capt. Smith Happy Land as Father Case Her Primitive Man as JonathanSouth of Dixie as Col. HatcherThe Mummy's Ghost as WatchmanHaunted Harbor as John Galbraith Mystery of the River Boat as Capt. Ethan PerrinHere Come the Waves as Commodore Bewitched as Capt. O'MalleySenorita from the West as DustyWithout Reservations as Conductor Personality Kid as Officer O'BrienThe Brute Man as Mr. Haskins, Grocer Abie's Irish Rose as Bishop Stallion Road as Doc Brady, DVM Sport of Kings as Judge SellersWhere There's Life as Uncle Philip It Had to Be You as Irish Neighborhood Watchman My Wild Irish Rose as Pat DalyFury at Furnace Creek as Jailer One Sunday Afternoon as TobyThe Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Mr. Flannigan