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 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.
Movie Appearances
The Postman Didn't Ring
as Judge Barrington
1942
Mannequin
as 'Pa' Cassidy
1938
Bewitched
as Capt. O'Malley
1945
Stranger on the Third Floor
as The Judge
1940
The Phantom Submarine
as Captain Velsar
1940
The Officer and the Lady
as Dan Regan
1941
Rosalie
as Mr. Callahan
1937
Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited)
1946
Captains Courageous
as Captain Walt Cushman
1937
Sport of Kings
as Judge Sellers
1947
Haunted Harbor
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1944
Invitation to Happiness
as Divorce Judge
1939
Of Mice and Men
as Jackson
1939
Big City
as John C. Andrews
1937
Racket Busters
as Pop Wilson
1938
The Night of Nights
as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
1939
The Tell-Tale Heart
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1941
The Shining Hour
as Charlie Collins
1938
Pier 13
as Skipper Kelly
1940
Missing Evidence
as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1939
