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Oscar O'Shea
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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 f…
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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.
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1955
MGM Parade
TV show Self
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1948
One Sunday Afternoon
Movie Toby
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1947
My Wild Irish Rose
Movie Pat Daly
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1947
Sport of Kings
Movie Judge Sellers
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1946
The Brute Man
Movie Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
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1946
Personality Kid
Movie Officer O'Brien
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1946
Without Reservations
Movie Conductor (uncredited)
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1945
Senorita from the West
Movie Dusty
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1945
Bewitched
Movie Capt. O'Malley
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1944
Here Come the Waves
Movie Commodore (uncredited)
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1944
Mystery of the Riverboat
Movie Capt. Ethan Perrin
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1944
Haunted Harbor
Movie John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
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1944
The Mummy's Ghost
Movie Museum Watchman
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1944
South of Dixie
Movie Colonel Hatcher
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1944
Her Primitive Man
Movie Jonathan
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1943
Happy Land
Movie Father Case (uncredited)
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1943
Corvette K-225
Movie Capt. Smith
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1943
Two Tickets to London
Movie Mr. Tinkle
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1943
City Without Men
Movie Joseph Barton
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1942
Half Way to Shanghai
Movie Doctor McIntyre
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1942
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Movie Judge Sanders
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1942
The Postman Didn't Ring
Movie Judge Barrington
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1942
I Was Framed
Movie Cal Beamish
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1942
The Bashful Bachelor
Movie Squire Skimp
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1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
Movie Cardigan, working ranch owner
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1942
Torpedo Boat
Movie Captain Mike
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1942
Fly By Night
Movie Pa Prescott
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1941
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
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1941
The Officer and the Lady
Movie Dan Regan
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1941
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie Noah Judkins
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1941
Lydia
Movie Doctor Richards
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1941
Harmon of Michigan
Movie 'Pop' Branch
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1941
Blossoms in the Dust
Movie Dr. West
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1941
Ringside Maisie
Movie Conductor
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1941
Mutiny in the Arctic
Movie Capt. Bob Morrissey
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1941
Sleepers West
Movie McGowan, a Engineer
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1941
Four Mothers
Movie George Edwards (uncredited)
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1940
The Phantom Submarine
Movie Captain Velsar
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1940
Always a Bride
Movie Uncle Dan Jarvis
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1940
Wildcat Bus
Movie Charles Dawson
