Oscar O'Shea
Oscar O'Shea | |
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![]() O'Shea in The Bashful Bachelor (1942) | |
Born | Peterborough, Ontario, Canada | October 8, 1881
Died | April 6, 1960 Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged 78)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1937-1953 |
Oscar O'Shea (8 October 1881 – 6 April 1960) was an American character actor with over 100 film appearances from 1937 to 1953.
Early years
O'Shea was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.[1]
Acting
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.[2]
O'Shea's first film was Captains Courageous (1937).[1]
Management
Beginning in 1929, O'Shea operated the Oscar O'Shea Players repertory theater company in the Embassy Theatre in Ottawa, Canada.[3] He eventually ended the enterprise "to seek a field where his art would be more widely appreciated."[4] He then set up an operation in Chicago, "where he managed his own theatre and stock company during good and bad years."[4]
Death
O'Shea died in Hollywood, California, in 1960 at age 78.[1]
Partial filmography
- Captains Courageous (1937)
- Big City (1937)
- Double Wedding (1937) (uncredited)
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) (uncredited)
- Mannequin (1937)
- The Main Event (1938)
- Racket Busters (1938)
- Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
- The Shining Hour (1938)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) (uncredited)
- The Roaring Twenties (1939) (uncredited)
- Of Mice and Men (1939)
- Undercover Agent (1939)
- Those High Grey Walls (1939)
- The Roaring Twenties (1939) (uncredited)
- Missing Evidence (1939)
- 20 Mule Team (1940)
- Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
- Ringside Maisie (1941)
- Riders of the Purple Sage (1941)
- Fly-by-Night (1942)
- Torpedo Boat (1942)
- I Was Framed (1942)
- Good Morning, Judge (1943)
- Two Tickets to London (1943)
- The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
- Senorita from the West (1945)
References
- ^ a b c Feramisco, Thomas M. (2007). The Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left on Universal’s Cutting Room Floor. McFarland. pp. 189–190. ISBN 9781476607924. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ Quinn, Susan (2011). Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9780802779717. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "Oscar O'Shea Players to Open Season of Repertoire Next Week". No. The Ottawa Journal. Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. December 21, 1929. p. 13. Retrieved July 6, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Oscar O'Shea Comes Back". The Ottawa Journal. Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. July 3, 1937. p. 20. Retrieved July 6, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
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