Oscar O'Shea
Acting
Born 1881-10-07
Died 1960-04-06
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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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.
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MGM Parade
Always a Bride
The Roaring Twenties
Love Affair
Captains Courageous
Of Mice and Men
The Mummy's Ghost
Without Reservations
Four Mothers
Ringside Maisie
You're Only Young Once
Double Wedding
The Shining Hour
Rosalie
Blossoms in the Dust
Corvette K-225
South of Dixie
Stranger on the Third Floor
Susan and God
Racket Busters
Numbered Woman
Hold That Kiss
Invitation to Happiness
Happy Land
Tell No Tales
Here Come the Waves
20 Mule Team
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Star Maker
Fly By Night
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Forty Little Mothers
Those High Grey Walls
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
The Bashful Bachelor
Sleepers West
Lydia
International Crime
I Was Framed
You Can't Fool Your Wife
The Postman Didn't Ring
Man-Proof
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Mutiny in the Arctic
Dudes Are Pretty People
The Officer and the Lady
City Without Men
Mystery of the Riverboat
The Night of Nights
Undercover Agent
Love Is a Headache
Big City
Missing Evidence
Bewitched
Big Town Czar
One Sunday Afternoon
The Phantom Submarine
Mannequin
Youth Takes a Fling
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