Oscar O'Shea
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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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.009 |
| Birthday | 1881-10-07 |
| Place of Birth | Peterborough, Ontario, Canada |
| Also Known As |
1942
The Postman Didn't Ring
0/0
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting t...
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The Postman Didn't Ring
1938
Mannequin
6.1/19
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left beh...
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Mannequin
1945
Bewitched
5.3/20
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Bewitched
1940
Stranger on the Third Floor
6.5/94
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
The Phantom Submarine
6/2
On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in...
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The Phantom Submarine
1941
The Officer and the Lady
6/1
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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The Officer and the Lady
1937
Rosalie
5.5/6
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
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Rosalie
1946
Without Reservations
6.3/17
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Without Reservations
1937
Captains Courageous
7.4/154
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...
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Captains Courageous
1947
Sport of Kings
0/0
Two brothers from the North try to gain favor in the South after they inherit a horse farm in Kentucky.
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Sport of Kings
1944
Haunted Harbor
7/1
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Haunted Harbor
1939
Invitation to Happiness
0/0
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Invitation to Happiness
1939
Of Mice and Men
7.3/80
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Of Mice and Men
1937
Big City
7.4/5
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob contr...
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Big City
1938
Racket Busters
5.1/11
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Racket Busters
1939
The Night of Nights
0/0
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The Night of Nights
1941
The Tell-Tale Heart
6.5/12
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
1938
The Shining Hour
6.6/21
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Shining Hour
1940
Pier 13
5/2
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
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Pier 13
1939
Missing Evidence
0/0
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have...
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Missing Evidence
1939
Those High Grey Walls
6.2/3
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from...
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Those High Grey Walls
1938
Stablemates
4.5/2
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
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Stablemates
1939
Lucky Night
6.6/6
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The...
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Lucky Night
1940
Wildcat Bus
4.6/4
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Wildcat Bus
1938
International Crime
5.5/10
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur...
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International Crime
1938
Man-Proof
4.8/6
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
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Man-Proof
1948
One Sunday Afternoon
6/2
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Ma...
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One Sunday Afternoon
1939
Undercover Agent
4.8/3
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Undercover Agent
1938
Campus Cinderella
5.5/2
This musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his father wanted after he falls in love with a co-ed.
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Campus Cinderella
1940
You Can't Fool Your Wife
4.5/4
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
1939
The Star Maker
0/0
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
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The Star Maker
1944
Mystery of the Riverboat
6/1
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
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Mystery of the Riverboat
1938
King of the Newsboys
6/1
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her...
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King of the Newsboys
1943
Two Tickets to London
6/1
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Two Tickets to London
1938
Numbered Woman
0/0
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
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Numbered Woman
1938
Rebellious Daughters
5/1
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
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Rebellious Daughters
1943
Happy Land
6.2/3
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Happy Land
1940
Always a Bride
4.5/4
A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy.
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Always a Bride
1940
20 Mule Team
6/3
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20 Mule Team
1939
Tell No Tales
5.3/5
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Tell No Tales
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
1/1
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it m...
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Youth Takes a Fling
1937
You're Only Young Once
5.2/8
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
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You're Only Young Once
1938
Love Is a Headache
5.7/3
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her k...
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Love Is a Headache
1938
Hold That Kiss
6.5/2
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Hold That Kiss
1946
Personality Kid
0/0
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
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Personality Kid
1938
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
6/2
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1947
My Wild Irish Rose
6/6
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
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My Wild Irish Rose
1939
Love Affair
7.074/102
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed...
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Love Affair
1939
The Roaring Twenties
7.5/228
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartl...
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The Roaring Twenties
1942
Fly-By-Night
6.4/5
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escap...
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Fly-By-Night
1941
Harmon of Michigan
0/0
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweet...
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Harmon of Michigan
1939
S.O.S Tidal Wave
5.7/3
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate...
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
1942
Henry Aldrich, Editor
6/1
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero...
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
I Was Framed
4/3
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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I Was Framed
1940
Susan and God
6.5/14
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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Susan and God
1941
Riders of the Purple Sage
0/0
Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a...
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
0/0
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
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Dudes Are Pretty People
1941
Four Mothers
5.7/3
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Four Mothers
1941
Ringside Maisie
7/3
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxi...
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Ringside Maisie
1945
Senorita from the West
5/1
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio...
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Senorita from the West
1940
Forty Little Mothers
6.2/4
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an a...
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Forty Little Mothers
1944
The Mummy's Ghost
5.7/69
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning th...
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The Mummy's Ghost
1941
Blossoms in the Dust
6.5/29
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats...
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Blossoms in the Dust
1939
Big Town Czar
0/0
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart...
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Big Town Czar
1938
The Main Event
0/0
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled becau...
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The Main Event
1942
Half Way to Shanghai
0/1
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
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Half Way to Shanghai
1939
King of the Turf
7/1
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...
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King of the Turf
1944
Her Primitive Man
6/1
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
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Her Primitive Man
1938
The Canary Comes Across
3.5/2
A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receive...
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The Canary Comes Across
1943
City Without Men
5/2
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she...
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City Without Men
1943
Corvette K-225
6.2/11
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Corvette K-225
1938
Border Wolves
0/0
Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested. Knowing they are innocent Judge Coleman breaks t...
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Border Wolves
1937
The Good Old Soak
0/0
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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The Good Old Soak
1939
She Married a Cop
5/2
This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Polic...
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She Married a Cop
1944
South of Dixie
0/0
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him...
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South of Dixie
1941
Lydia
6.4/9
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...
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Lydia
1940
Zanzibar
0/0
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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Zanzibar
1937
Double Wedding
6.5/31
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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Double Wedding
1941
Sleepers West
6.3/15
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Sleepers West
1941
Mutiny in the Arctic
0/0
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off...
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Mutiny in the Arctic
1942
Torpedo Boat
6/1
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title)....
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Torpedo Boat
1946
The Brute Man
4.5/30
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
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The Brute Man
1942
The Bashful Bachelor
4.5/2
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a...
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The Bashful Bachelor
1944
Here Come the Waves
5/7
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabo...
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