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Oscar O'Shea

Oct 07, 1881 - Apr 06, 1960 (78 years old) in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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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.

Known For

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The Roaring Twenties
Customer (uncredited)
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Without Reservations
Conductor (uncredited)
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Stranger on the Third Floor
The Judge
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Love Affair
Priest (uncredited)
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Blossoms in the Dust
Dr. West
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Four Mothers
George Edwards (uncredited)
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The Brute Man
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
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The Mummy's Ghost
Museum Watchman
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Of Mice and Men
Jackson
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Corvette K-225
Capt. Smith

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