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O.Z. Whitehead
New York City, New York, USA
American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in t…
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American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1992
Hello, Stranger
Movie
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1975
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Movie Ben Burton
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1968
The Lion in Winter
Movie Bishop of Durham
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1967
Ulysses
Movie Alexander J. Dowie
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1963
Summer Magic
Movie Mr. Perkins
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1962
Panic in Year Zero!
Movie Hogan
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1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie Herbert Carruthers
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1961
Hazel
TV show
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1961
Two Rode Together
Movie Lt. Whitehead
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1959
The Horse Soldiers
Movie Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
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1958
The Last Hurrah
Movie Norman Cass Jr.
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1958
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Movie Isaac Goodpasture
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Harry Beacom
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Mr. Newton
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1955
Gunsmoke
TV show Hank Blenis
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1953
The Body Beautiful
Movie Oscar Blunt
More credits
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1952
Cavalcade of America
TV show
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1952
Beware, My Lovely
Movie Mr. Franks
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1952
The San Francisco Story
Movie Alfey
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1952
For Men Only
Movie Prof. Bixby
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1951
FBI Girl
Movie Chauncey
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1951
Journey Into Light
Movie Lippy
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1951
Comin' Round the Mountain
Movie Zeke
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1951
The Hoodlum
Movie Breckenridge
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1951
The Scarf
Movie Whoopie
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1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
Movie Mr. Billings
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1949
Suspense
TV show George Vance
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1948
Studio One
TV show Peter Kovalesky
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1948
A Song Is Born
Movie Professor Oddly
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1948
Road House
Movie Arthur
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1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Movie Ninny Nat
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1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
Movie Mr. Puddy
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1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie Al Joad
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1935
The Scoundrel
Movie Calhoun
