Personal Info
Birth date
1881-10-07 (143 Years)
Day of death
1960-04-06
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Also known as
-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.
Filmography
The Brute Man
4.5
Overview:
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.Rebellious Daughters
5
Overview:
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.International Crime
5.4
Overview:
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.Of Mice and Men
7.3
Overview:
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.Captains Courageous
7.44
Overview:
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.The Roaring Twenties
7.488
Overview:
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.Love Affair
6.969
Overview:
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.Blossoms in the Dust
6.563
Overview:
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.Angels with Dirty Faces
7.5
Overview:
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.Lydia
6.455
Overview:
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.Love Is a Headache
5.7
Overview:
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.The Mummy's Ghost
5.7
Overview:
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...Without Reservations
6.2
Overview:
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.Mannequin
5.857
Overview:
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.The Shining Hour
6.6
Overview:
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.Stranger on the Third Floor
6.475
Overview:
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.Corvette K-225
6.1
Overview:
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.Double Wedding
6.576
Overview:
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.Lucky Night
6.6
Overview:
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.You're Only Young Once
5.75
Overview:
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.Forty Little Mothers
6.2
Overview:
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.Ringside Maisie
7
Overview:
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.King of the Newsboys
3.5
Overview:
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.You Can't Fool Your Wife
4.5
Overview:
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.20 Mule Team
6
Overview:
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.City Without Men
5
Overview:
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.Big Town Czar
NYR
Overview:
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.Acting
1948One Sunday Afternoon as Toby
1947My Wild Irish Rose as Pat Daly
1947Sport of Kings as Judge Sellers
1946The Brute Man as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
1946Personality Kid as Officer O'Brien
1946Without Reservations as Conductor (uncredited)
1945Senorita from the West as Dusty
1945Bewitched as Capt. O'Malley
1944Here Come the Waves as Commodore (uncredited)
1944Mystery of the Riverboat as Capt. Ethan Perrin
1944Haunted Harbor as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1944The Mummy's Ghost as Museum Watchman
1944South of Dixie as Colonel Hatcher
1944Her Primitive Man as Jonathan
1943Happy Land as Father Case (uncredited)
1943Corvette K-225 as Capt. Smith
1943Two Tickets to London as Mr. Tinkle
1943City Without Men as Joseph Barton
1942Half Way to Shanghai as Doctor McIntyre
1942Henry Aldrich, Editor as Judge Sanders
1942The Postman Didn't Ring as Judge Barrington
1942I Was Framed as Cal Beamish
1942The Bashful Bachelor as Squire Skimp
1942Dudes Are Pretty People as Cardigan, working ranch owner
1942Torpedo Boat as Captain Mike
1942Fly By Night as Pa Prescott
1941The Tell-Tale Heart as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1941The Officer and the Lady as Dan Regan
1941Riders of the Purple Sage as Noah Judkins
1941Lydia as Doctor Richards
1941Harmon of Michigan as 'Pop' Branch
1941Blossoms in the Dust as Dr. West
1941Ringside Maisie as Conductor
1941Mutiny in the Arctic as Capt. Bob Morrissey
1941Sleepers West as McGowan, a Engineer
1941Four Mothers as George Edwards (uncredited)
1940The Phantom Submarine as Captain Velsar
1940Always a Bride as Uncle Dan Jarvis
1940Wildcat Bus as Charles Dawson
1940Stranger on the Third Floor as The Judge
1940Pier 13 as Skipper Kelly
1940Susan and God as Samr (uncredited)
1940You Can't Fool Your Wife as Dr. Emery
194020 Mule Team as Train Conductor
1940Forty Little Mothers as Janitor at Train Station
1940Zanzibar as Captain Craig
1939Of Mice and Men as Jackson
1939Missing Evidence as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
1939The Night of Nights as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
1939The Roaring Twenties as Customer (uncredited)
1939Those High Grey Walls as Warden
1939The Star Maker as Mr. Flannigan
1939She Married a Cop as Pa Duffy
1939Tell No Tales as Sam O'Neil
1939Invitation to Happiness as Divorce Judge
1939S.O.S Tidal Wave as Mike Halloran
1939Lucky Night as Police Lieutenant
1939Big Town Czar as Pa Daley
1939Undercover Agent as Pat Murphy
1939Love Affair as Priest (uncredited)
1939King of the Turf as Bartender
1938Angels with Dirty Faces as Unknown
1938The Shining Hour as Charlie Collins
1938Stablemates as Pete Whalen
1938Youth Takes a Fling as Captain Walters
1938Campus Cinderella as Horace Howard
1938Racket Busters as Pop Wilson
1938Rebellious Daughters as Dad Elliott
1938The Main Event as Captain Rorty
1938Numbered Woman as Oscar
1938Snow Gets in Your Eyes as Gibson (uncredited)
1938Hold That Kiss as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
1938International Crime as Heath
1938King of the Newsboys as Mr. Stephens
1938Border Wolves as Judge Coleman
1938The Canary Comes Across as Warden Clayton
1938Mannequin as 'Pa' Cassidy
1938Love Is a Headache as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
1938Man-Proof as Gus the Bartender
1937Rosalie as Mr. Callahan
1937You're Only Young Once as Sheriff (uncredited)
1937Double Wedding as Turnkey (uncredited)
1937Big City as John C. Andrews
1937Captains Courageous as Captain Walt Cushman
1937The Good Old Soak as Jake