O.Z. Whitehead
Birthday
1911/03/01
Day of death
1998/07/29 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby
Biography
American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a ...Read more
Acting
(1940) The Grapes of Wrath
as Al Joad
(1948) Road House
as Arthur
(1962) Panic in Year Zero!
as Hogan
(1951) The Scarf
as Whoopie
(1952) Beware, My Lovely
as Mr. Franks
(1951) The Hoodlum
as Breckenridge
(1959) The Horse Soldiers
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
(1968) The Lion in Winter
as Bishop of Durham
(1958) The Last Hurrah
as Norman Cass Jr.
(1958) Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
as Isaac Goodpasture
(1951) Comin' Round the Mountain
as Zeke
(1963) Summer Magic
as Mr. Perkins
(1952) The San Francisco Story
as Alfey
(1962) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Herbert Carruthers
(1935) The Scoundrel
as Calhoun
(1952) The San Francisco Story
as ---
(1952) For Men Only
as Prof. Bixby
(1961) Two Rode Together
as Lt. Whitehead
(1948) A Song Is Born
as Professor Oddly
(1947) The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Ninny Nat
(1951) FBI Girl
as Chauncey
(1949) Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mr. Billings
(1947) My Brother Talks to Horses
as Mr. Puddy
(1953) The Body Beautiful
as Oscar Blunt
(1951) Journey Into Light
as Lippy
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Hank Blenis
(1957) Perry Mason
as Harry Beacom
(1948) Studio One
as Peter Kovalesky
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Newton
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1961) Hazel
as ---
(1949) Suspense
as George Vance
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Simms