Actor
Oscar O'Shea
October 7, 1881 · Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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).
Notable work
Often works with
Humphrey Bogart
3 titles together
Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, Racket Busters
Sam McDaniel
3 titles together
Captains Courageous, Without Reservations, Sleepers West
Bess Flowers
3 titles together
Love Affair, The Mummy's Ghost, The Shining Hour
Harry Hayden
3 titles together
Blossoms in the Dust, Without Reservations, Sleepers West
Joan Crawford
3 titles together
The Shining Hour, Mannequin, Susan and God
George Chandler
3 titles together
The Shining Hour, Mannequin, Sleepers West
Full filmography · 85
One Sunday Afternoon
as Toby
1948
My Wild Irish Rose
as Pat Daly
1947
Sport of Kings
as Judge Sellers
1947
The Brute Man
as Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
19464.6
Personality Kid
as Officer O'Brien
1946
Without Reservations
as Conductor (uncredited)
19466.3
Senorita from the West
as Dusty
1945
Bewitched
as Capt. O'Malley
19455.4
Here Come the Waves
as Commodore (uncredited)
1944
Mystery of the Riverboat
as Capt. Ethan Perrin
1944
Haunted Harbor
as John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
1944
The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Watchman
19445.6