person

Oscar O'Shea

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1881-10-07

Place of Birth

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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.

Also Known For

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The Postman Didn't Ring

Jul 03, 1942

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58

Mannequin

Jan 21, 1938

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53

Bewitched

Jul 04, 1945

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64

Stranger on the Third Floor

Aug 16, 1940

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60

The Phantom Submarine

Dec 20, 1940

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60

The Officer and the Lady

Oct 12, 1941

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55

Rosalie

Dec 24, 1937

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62

Without Reservations

May 13, 1946

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74

Captains Courageous

Jun 25, 1937

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NA

Sport of Kings

Jun 26, 1947

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67

Haunted Harbor

Aug 26, 1944

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60

Invitation to Happiness

Jun 07, 1939

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73

Of Mice and Men

Dec 24, 1939

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74

Big City

Sep 03, 1937

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51

Racket Busters

Jul 16, 1938

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NA

The Night of Nights

Dec 01, 1939

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65

The Tell-Tale Heart

Oct 25, 1941

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66

The Shining Hour

Nov 18, 1938

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50

Pier 13

Aug 08, 1940

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50

Missing Evidence

Dec 15, 1939

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62

Those High Grey Walls

Sep 21, 1939

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45

Stablemates

Oct 07, 1938

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66

Lucky Night

May 05, 1939

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49

Wildcat Bus

Aug 23, 1940

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54

International Crime

Apr 23, 1938

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42

Man-Proof

Jan 07, 1938

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60

One Sunday Afternoon

Dec 25, 1948

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37

Undercover Agent

Apr 19, 1939

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55

Campus Cinderella

Sep 17, 1938

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45

You Can't Fool Your Wife

May 21, 1940

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NA

The Star Maker

Aug 25, 1939

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60

Mystery of the Riverboat

Oct 24, 1944

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40

King of the Newsboys

Mar 18, 1938

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60

Two Tickets to London

Jun 14, 1943

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NA

Numbered Woman

May 22, 1938

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45

Rebellious Daughters

Jul 01, 1938

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62

Happy Land

Nov 10, 1943

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45

Always a Bride

Nov 02, 1940

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60

20 Mule Team

May 03, 1940

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46

Tell No Tales

Jun 12, 1939

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10

Youth Takes a Fling

Sep 22, 1938

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55

You're Only Young Once

Dec 10, 1937

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57

Love Is a Headache

Jan 14, 1938

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65

Hold That Kiss

May 13, 1938

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NA

Personality Kid

Aug 08, 1946

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60

Snow Gets in Your Eyes

May 14, 1938

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60

My Wild Irish Rose

Dec 24, 1947

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69

Love Affair

Apr 07, 1939

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75

The Roaring Twenties

Oct 28, 1939

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64

Fly By Night

Jan 19, 1942

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50

Harmon of Michigan

Sep 11, 1941

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57

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Jun 02, 1939

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60

Henry Aldrich, Editor

Sep 01, 1942

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40

I Was Framed

Apr 04, 1942

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65

Susan and God

Jun 07, 1940

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NA

Riders of the Purple Sage

Oct 09, 1941

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NA

Dudes Are Pretty People

Mar 13, 1942

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62

Four Mothers

Jan 04, 1941

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45

Ringside Maisie

Aug 01, 1941

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50

Senorita from the West

Oct 12, 1945

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64

Forty Little Mothers

Apr 26, 1940

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55

The Mummy's Ghost

Jun 30, 1944

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66

Blossoms in the Dust

Aug 15, 1941

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NA

Big Town Czar

May 03, 1939

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NA

The Main Event

Jun 22, 1938

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45

Half Way to Shanghai

Sep 18, 1942

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70

King of the Turf

Feb 17, 1939

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60

Her Primitive Man

May 29, 1944

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35

The Canary Comes Across

Jan 26, 1938

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50

City Without Men

Jan 14, 1943

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61

Corvette K-225

Sep 29, 1943

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NA

Border Wolves

Feb 25, 1938

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NA

The Good Old Soak

Apr 23, 1937

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57

She Married a Cop

Jul 11, 1939

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NA

South of Dixie

Jun 23, 1944

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65

Lydia

Sep 18, 1941

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NA

Zanzibar

Mar 08, 1940

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63

Double Wedding

Oct 15, 1937

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63

Sleepers West

Mar 14, 1941

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60

Torpedo Boat

Jan 24, 1942

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NA

Mutiny in the Arctic

Apr 17, 1941

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45

The Brute Man

Oct 01, 1946

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45

The Bashful Bachelor

Mar 19, 1942

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50

Here Come the Waves

Dec 18, 1944

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75

Angels with Dirty Faces

Nov 26, 1938