Oscar O'Shea
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.
Captains Courageous
as Captain Walt CushmanHarvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a...
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Love Affair
as Priest (uncredited)A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They...
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Stranger on the Third Floor
as The JudgeNewspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence"...
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The Roaring Twenties
as Customer (uncredited)After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George...
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Of Mice and Men
as JacksonAn intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's...
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Blossoms in the Dust
as Dr. WestEdna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when...
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The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum WatchmanAn Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess...
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Mannequin
as 'Pa' CassidyJessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only...
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Susan and God
as Samr (uncredited)A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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The Shining Hour
as Charlie CollinsA nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited)Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the...
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Double Wedding
as Turnkey (uncredited)A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her...
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Invitation to Happiness
as Divorce JudgeAn egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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20 Mule Team
as Train ConductorIt is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining...
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Bewitched
as Capt. O'MalleyA girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Rosalie
as Mr. CallahanWest Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an...
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Big City
as John C. AndrewsAnna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in...
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Fly By Night
as Pa PrescottYoung intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns...
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Love Is a Headache
as Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some...
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Four Mothers
as George Edwards (uncredited)Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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The Phantom Submarine
as Captain VelsarOn the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair...
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You're Only Young Once
as Sheriff (uncredited)Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes
as Gibson (uncredited)A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl...
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Tell No Tales
as Sam O'NeilA newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...
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Half Way to Shanghai
as Doctor McIntyreA murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
as First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's...
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The Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his...
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My Wild Irish Rose
as Pat DalyMusical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
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Sleepers West
as McGowan, a EngineerPrivate eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder...
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Lydia
as Doctor RichardsLydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her...
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Racket Busters
as Pop WilsonA trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Stablemates
as Pete WhalenA boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a...
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Dudes Are Pretty People
as Cardigan, working ranch ownerWestern comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
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Two Tickets to London
as Mr. TinkleAccused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to...
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Missing Evidence
as John C. 'Pop' AndrewsG-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating...
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International Crime
as HeathThe second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La...
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Personality Kid
as Officer O'BrienAn Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger...
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I Was Framed
as Cal BeamishA reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Those High Grey Walls
as WardenDr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for...
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One Sunday Afternoon
as TobyThe third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan...
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Her Primitive Man
as JonathanAn anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a...
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Lucky Night
as Police LieutenantCora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her...
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Big Town Czar
as Pa DaleyWhen gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can...
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
as Mike HalloranA news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his...
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Forty Little Mothers
as Janitor at Train StationAn out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's...
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Numbered Woman
as OscarAfter her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear...
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Corvette K-225
as Capt. SmithThe story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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The Canary Comes Across
as Warden ClaytonA prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who...
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King of the Turf
as BartenderMason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death...
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Harmon of Michigan
as 'Pop' BranchA former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play...
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Hold That Kiss
as Pop - Man Bringing Usher's ClothesTwo young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely...
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The Bashful Bachelor
as Squire SkimpLum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner...
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Undercover Agent
as Pat MurphyA railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Man-Proof
as Gus the BartenderA newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even...
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The Postman Didn't Ring
as Judge BarringtonStolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The...
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Here Come the Waves
as Commodore (uncredited)Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join...
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The Star Maker
as Mr. FlanniganThis is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and...
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King of the Newsboys
as Mr. StephensA poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants...
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Haunted Harbor
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by...
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Mutiny in the Arctic
as Capt. Bob MorrisseyA pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain...
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Dr. EmeryLongtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in...
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Riders of the Purple Sage
as Noah JudkinsLassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys...
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The Main Event
as Captain RortyFBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing...
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Always a Bride
as Uncle Dan JarvisA young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on...
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The Good Old Soak
as JakeA small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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The Night of Nights
as Mr. Conway (uncredited)A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having...
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Rebellious Daughters
as Dad ElliottGirl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed...
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Ringside Maisie
as ConductorYoung undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career,...
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Happy Land
as Father Case (uncredited)An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist...
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Senorita from the West
as DustyDetermined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a...
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She Married a Cop
as Pa DuffyThis comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation...
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Youth Takes a Fling
as Captain WaltersMcCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves...
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Torpedo Boat
as Captain MikeRichard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a...
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City Without Men
as Joseph BartonA young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near...
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The Officer and the Lady
as Dan ReganA woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man...
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
as Judge SandersAppointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of...
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South of Dixie
as Colonel HatcherTo save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful...
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Pier 13
as Skipper KellyA policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront...
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Sport of Kings
as Judge SellersTwo brothers from the North try to gain favor in the South after they inherit a horse farm in...
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Mystery of the Riverboat
as Capt. Ethan PerrinA movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble...
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Zanzibar
as Captain CraigA beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is...
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Campus Cinderella
as Horace HowardThis musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his...
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Wildcat Bus
as Charles DawsonA broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Border Wolves
as Judge ColemanJust after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are...
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