Oscar O'Shea
Acting
🎂 1881-10-07
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.
Cast credits(85)
Pop Wilson
1938
George Edwards (uncredited)
1941
Charles Dawson
1940
Divorce Judge
1939
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
1946
Doctor McIntyre
1942
Skipper Kelly
1940
Captain Walt Cushman
1937
Customer (uncredited)
1939
Toby
1948
'Pa' Cassidy
1938
Pete Whalen
1938
Heath
1938
Priest (uncredited)
1939
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
1938
Oscar
1938
John C. Andrews
1937
Joseph Barton
1943
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
1938
Capt. Smith
1943
Pat Daly
1947
Doctor Richards
1941
Samr (uncredited)
1940
Noah Judkins
1941
Capt. Ethan Perrin
1944
Mr. Tinkle
1943
1938
Captain Craig
1940
Sam O'Neil
1939
Judge Sanders
1942
Museum Watchman
1944
Officer O'Brien
1946
Jonathan
1944
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1939
Dad Elliott
1938
Capt. O'Malley
1945
Bartender
1939
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1944
Turnkey (uncredited)
1937
Judge Barrington
1942
Train Conductor
1940
Pa Daley
1939
Father Case (uncredited)
1943
Dusty
1945
Capt. Bob Morrissey
1941
Gibson (uncredited)
1938
The Judge
1940
Warden
1939
Police Lieutenant
1939
Squire Skimp
1942
Jackson
1939
Colonel Hatcher
1944
Dr. West
1941
Captain Walters
1938
Charlie Collins
1938
Mike Halloran
1939
Sheriff (uncredited)
1937
Captain Mike
1942
Mr. Callahan
1937
Mr. Stephens
1938
Pat Murphy
1939
Mr. Flannigan
1939
Horace Howard
1938
Mr. Conway (uncredited)
1939
Gus the Bartender
1938
Commodore (uncredited)
1944
Dr. Emery
1940
Conductor (uncredited)
1946
Jake
1937
Pa Duffy
1939
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1941
Conductor
1941
Dan Regan
1941
Pa Prescott
1942
'Pop' Branch
1941
Captain Velsar
1940
Uncle Dan Jarvis
1940
McGowan, a Engineer
1941
Warden Clayton
1938
Cal Beamish
1942
Janitor at Train Station
1940
Captain Rorty
1938
Judge Sellers
1947
Judge Coleman
1938
Cardigan, working ranch owner
1942