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Oscar O'Shea
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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.
As actor
One Sunday Afternoon
Sport of Kings
My Wild Irish Rose
Without Reservations
Personality Kid
The Brute Man
Bewitched
Senorita from the West
Haunted Harbor
Mystery of the Riverboat
The Mummy's Ghost
Her Primitive Man
South of Dixie
Here Come the Waves
Two Tickets to London
Happy Land
City Without Men
Corvette K-225
The Postman Didn't Ring
Fly By Night
Henry Aldrich, Editor
I Was Framed
Dudes Are Pretty People
Half Way to Shanghai
Torpedo Boat
The Bashful Bachelor
The Officer and the Lady
The Tell-Tale Heart
Harmon of Michigan
Riders of the Purple Sage