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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.
Movies
Senorita from the West
Dusty
Mannequin
'Pa' Cassidy
Stranger on the Third Floor
The Judge
Bewitched
Capt. O'Malley
Rosalie
Mr. Callahan
Captains Courageous
Captain Walt Cushman
Of Mice and Men
Jackson
Big City
John C. Andrews
Invitation to Happiness
Divorce Judge
Racket Busters
Pop Wilson
The Tell-Tale Heart
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
The Shining Hour
Charlie Collins
Pier 13
Skipper Kelly
Those High Grey Walls
Warden
Missing Evidence
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
Stablemates
Pete Whalen
Lucky Night
Police Lieutenant
Wildcat Bus
Charles Dawson
International Crime
Heath
Man-Proof
Gus the Bartender
One Sunday Afternoon
Toby
Undercover Agent
Pat Murphy
Campus Cinderella
Horace Howard
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Dr. Emery
The Star Maker
Mr. Flannigan
Mystery of the Riverboat
Capt. Ethan Perrin
King of the Newsboys
Mr. Stephens
Rebellious Daughters
Dad Elliott
Always a Bride
Uncle Dan Jarvis
20 Mule Team
Train Conductor
Tell No Tales
Sam O'Neil
Youth Takes a Fling
Captain Walters
You're Only Young Once
Sheriff (uncredited)
Hold That Kiss
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Gibson (uncredited)
My Wild Irish Rose
Pat Daly
Love Affair
Priest (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
Customer (uncredited)
Fly-By-Night
Pa Prescott
Harmon of Michigan
'Pop' Branch
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Mike Halloran
I Was Framed
Cal Beamish
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Judge Sanders
Susan and God
Samr (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Riders of the Purple Sage
Noah Judkins
Four Mothers
George Edwards (uncredited)
Dudes Are Pretty People
Cardigan, working ranch owner
Ringside Maisie
Conductor
Forty Little Mothers
Janitor at Train Station
The Mummy's Ghost
Museum Watchman
Blossoms in the Dust
Dr. West
Big Town Czar
Pa Daley
Half Way to Shanghai
Doctor McIntyre
The Main Event
Captain Rorty
King of the Turf
Bartender
Her Primitive Man
Jonathan
The Canary Comes Across
Warden Clayton
City Without Men
Joseph Barton
Corvette K-225
Capt. Smith
Border Wolves
Judge Coleman
The Good Old Soak
Jake
She Married a Cop
Pa Duffy
South of Dixie
Colonel Hatcher
Lydia
Doctor Richards
Zanzibar
Captain Craig
Double Wedding
Turnkey (uncredited)
Sleepers West
McGowan, a Engineer
Mutiny in the Arctic
Capt. Bob Morrissey
Torpedo Boat
Captain Mike
The Brute Man
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
The Bashful Bachelor
Squire Skimp
Here Come the Waves
Commodore (uncredited)
The Phantom Submarine
Captain Velsar
The Officer and the Lady
Dan Regan
Without Reservations
Conductor (uncredited)
Sport of Kings
Judge Sellers
Haunted Harbor
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
Two Tickets to London
Mr. Tinkle
Numbered Woman
Oscar
Personality Kid
Officer O'Brien
The Postman Didn't Ring
Judge Barrington
The Night of Nights
Mr. Conway (uncredited)
Happy Land
Father Case (uncredited)