Birthday
1881/10/07
Day of death
1960/04/06 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Also know as
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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). Begi...Read more
(1942) The Postman Didn't Ring
as Judge Barrington
(1938) Mannequin
as 'Pa' Cassidy
(1945) Bewitched
as Capt. O'Malley
(1940) Stranger on the Third Floor
as The Judge
(1940) The Phantom Submarine
as Captain Velsar
(1941) The Officer and the Lady
as Dan Regan
(1937) Rosalie
as Mr. Callahan
(1946) Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited)
(1937) Captains Courageous
as Captain Walt Cushman
(1947) Sport of Kings
as Judge Sellers
(1944) Haunted Harbor
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
(1939) Invitation to Happiness
as Divorce Judge
(1939) Of Mice and Men
as Jackson
(1937) Big City
as John C. Andrews
(1938) Racket Busters
as Pop Wilson
(1939) The Night of Nights
as Mr. Conway (uncredited)
(1941) The Tell-Tale Heart
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
(1938) The Shining Hour
as Charlie Collins
(1940) Pier 13
as Skipper Kelly
(1939) Missing Evidence
as John C. 'Pop' Andrews
(1939) Those High Grey Walls
as Warden
(1938) Stablemates
as Pete Whalen
(1939) Lucky Night
as Police Lieutenant
(1940) Wildcat Bus
as Charles Dawson
(1938) International Crime
as Heath
(1938) Man-Proof
as Gus the Bartender
(1948) One Sunday Afternoon
as Toby
(1939) Undercover Agent
as Pat Murphy
(1938) Campus Cinderella
as Horace Howard
(1940) You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Dr. Emery
(1939) The Star Maker
as Mr. Flannigan
(1944) Mystery of the Riverboat
as Capt. Ethan Perrin
(1938) King of the Newsboys
as Mr. Stephens
(1943) Two Tickets to London
as Mr. Tinkle
(1938) Numbered Woman
as Oscar
(1938) Rebellious Daughters
as Dad Elliott
(1943) Happy Land
as Father Case (uncredited)
(1940) Always a Bride
as Uncle Dan Jarvis
(1940) 20 Mule Team
as Train Conductor
(1939) Tell No Tales
as Sam O'Neil
(1938) Youth Takes a Fling
as Captain Walters
(1937) You're Only Young Once
as Sheriff (uncredited)
(1938) Love Is a Headache
as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
(1938) Hold That Kiss
as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
(1946) Personality Kid
as Officer O'Brien
(1938) Snow Gets in Your Eyes
as Gibson (uncredited)
(1947) My Wild Irish Rose
as Pat Daly
(1939) Love Affair
as Priest
(1939) The Roaring Twenties
as Customer (uncredited)
(1942) Fly By Night
as Pa Prescott
(1941) Harmon of Michigan
as 'Pop' Branch
(1939) S.O.S Tidal Wave
as Mike Halloran
(1942) Henry Aldrich, Editor
as Judge Sanders
(1942) I Was Framed
as Cal Beamish
(1940) Susan and God
as Samr (uncredited)
(1941) Riders of the Purple Sage
as Noah Judkins
(1942) Dudes Are Pretty People
as Cardigan, working ranch owner
(1941) Four Mothers
as George Edwards (uncredited)
(1941) Ringside Maisie
as Conductor
(1945) Senorita from the West
as Dusty
(1940) Forty Little Mothers
as Janitor at Train Station
(1944) The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Watchman
(1941) Blossoms in the Dust
as Dr. West
(1939) Big Town Czar
as Pa Daley
(1938) The Main Event
as Captain Rorty
(1942) Half Way to Shanghai
as Doctor McIntyre
(1939) King of the Turf
as Bartender
(1944) Her Primitive Man
as Jonathan
(1938) The Canary Comes Across
as Warden Clayton
(1943) City Without Men
as Joseph Barton
(1943) Corvette K-225
as Capt. Smith
(1938) Border Wolves
as Judge Coleman
(1937) The Good Old Soak
as Jake
(1939) She Married a Cop
as Pa Duffy
(1944) South of Dixie
as Colonel Hatcher
(1941) Lydia
as Doctor Richards
(1940) Zanzibar
as Captain Craig
(1937) Double Wedding
as Turnkey (uncredited)
(1941) Sleepers West
as McGowan, a Engineer
(1942) Torpedo Boat
as Captain Mike
(1941) Mutiny in the Arctic
as Capt. Bob Morrissey
(1946) The Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
(1942) The Bashful Bachelor
as Squire Skimp
(1944) Here Come the Waves
as Commodore (uncredited)