Oscar O'Shea

Oscar O'Shea

Nacimiento : 1881-10-08, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Muerte : 1960-04-06

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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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Oscar O'Shea

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One Sunday Afternoon
Toby
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 Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").
My Wild Irish Rose
Pat Daly
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Sport of Kings
Judge Sellers
Two brothers from the North try to gain favor in the South after they inherit a horse farm in Kentucky.
The Brute Man
Mr. Haskins - Grocer (uncredited)
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
Sucedió en el tren
Conductor (uncredited)
Kit Madden es una novelista que viaja en tren a Hollywood para colaborar en una película que se basa en su nuevo libro 'Aquí está el mañana'. Durante el trayecto conoce al marine Rusty Thomas, un caballero que discutirá con ella diversos aspectos del libro, mostrando su desacuerdo en algunos puntos, sin saber que está hablando con la autora.
Senorita from the West
Dusty
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 crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
Bewitched
Capt. O'Malley
En pleno Valle de San Fernando, en California, Isabel, está tratando de reinventarse a si misma. Una bruja ingenua y buena persona, está dispuesta a desactivar sus poderes y llevar una vida normal.
Mellizas peligrosas
Commodore (uncredited)
Johnny Cabot es un ídolo de la canción que se enrola en la Marina pensando en vivir nuevas y emocionantes aventuras en alta mar. Sin embargo, se verá enredado por dos hermanas gemelas teniendo que pasar por cómicas situaciones.
Mystery of the Riverboat
Capt. Ethan Perrin
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
Haunted Harbor
John Galbraith [Chs. 1, 7, 15]
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of Pulinan, where they believe the real murderer--the captain's former partner--is hiding so the captain can clear his name. As it turns out, their troubles are only beginning
El fantasma de la momia
Museum Watchman
La Momia busca por todas partes la última reencarnación de su amada, la princesa Ananka. Mientras tanto, el Sumo Sacerdote de la Secta instruye a uno de sus acólitos sobre la manera de resucitar a la Momia hirviendo unas hierbas milenarias.
South of Dixie
Colonel Hatcher
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
Her Primitive Man
Jonathan
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Héroes del mar
Capt. Smith
En 1943, 'Mac' Macclain, de la marina de guerra canadiense, ha perdido su barco y muchos hombres debido a un torpedo alemán. A la espera de un nuevo barco, se hace amigo de Joyce Cartwright, hermana de uno de sus oficiales muertos. Seguimos la construcción y puesta en marcha de la nueva corbeta K-255, el 'HMCS Donnacona'. ¿Y quién debería ser nuevo subalterno de Mac, sino Paul el otro hermano de Joyce, recién salido de la academia? Mac hará todo lo posible para hacer un buen oficial de Paul... si ambos sobreviven a su deber en el peligroso mar.
Two Tickets to London
Mr. Tinkle
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
City Without Men
Joseph Barton
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 moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
Half Way to Shanghai
Doctor McIntyre
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Judge Sanders
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
I Was Framed
Cal Beamish
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
The Bashful Bachelor
Squire Skimp
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 racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
Dudes Are Pretty People
Cardigan, working ranch owner
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
Torpedo Boat
Captain Mike
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). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
Fly-By-Night
Pa Prescott
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 escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
The Tell-Tale Heart
First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
The Officer and the Lady
Dan Regan
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
Riders of the Purple Sage
Noah Judkins
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 young George Kennedy as Lassiter.
Lydia
Doctor Richards
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 and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
Harmon of Michigan
'Pop' Branch
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
De corazón a corazón
Dr. West
Tras la dolorosa pérdida de su hijo, Edna, una valiente mujer de Texas, decide crear un orfanato para ayudar a los niños más desvalidos y necesitados de ayuda; pero los ciudadanos más conservadores no verán con buenos ojos la creación de una institución de acogida para niños nacidos fuera del matrimonio. Edna luchará incansablemente para conseguir legalizar el orfanato.
Ringside Maisie
Conductor
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 boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
Mutiny in the Arctic
Capt. Bob Morrissey
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 the others and claim the radium for themselves.
Sleepers West
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Four Mothers
George Edwards (uncredited)
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
The Phantom Submarine
Captain Velsar
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 a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.
Always a Bride
Uncle Dan Jarvis
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.
Wildcat Bus
Charles Dawson
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
El extraño del tercer piso
The Judge
El testimonio de un periodista sirve para llevar a un joven a la silla eléctrica. El reportero, torturado por las dudas acerca de su culpabilidad, cae en una telaraña de falsas pruebas que le señalan, ahora a él, como presunto autor de un nuevo crimen...
Pier 13
Skipper Kelly
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
Susana y Dios
Samr (uncredited)
Susana está casada y tiene una hija, pero tras un viaje por Europa, comienza a sentir una ferviente vocación religiosa que le hará abandonar todo aquello que ha construido. Su marido Barrie intentará no perderla.
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Dr. Emery
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
20 Mule Team
Train Conductor
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
Forty Little Mothers
Janitor at Train Station
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 abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Zanzibar
Captain Craig
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
La fuerza bruta (De ratones y hombres)
Jackson
Años 30. Adaptación de la novela de John Steinbeck “De ratones y hombres” sobre la América de la Gran Depresión. Los protagonistas son dos amigos en paro, uno de ellos un retrasado mental, que son contratados para trabajar en un rancho.
Missing Evidence
John C. 'Pop' Andrews
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 flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Los violentos años veinte
Customer (uncredited)
Estados Unidos, Ley Seca, años 20. Relato sobre los diferentes caminos que siguen tres veteranos que se conocen durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Cuando regresan a América tras luchar por su país, tropiezan con el problema del desempleo y con grandes difícultades económicas. Uno de ellos (Lynn) seguirá con decisión el buen camino; otro (Cagney), amargado por la falta de futuro, no encuentra más salida que el contrabando ilegal de licor; el tercero (Bogart) se convierte en un implacable gángster.
Those High Grey Walls
Warden
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 the police.
The Star Maker
Mr. Flannigan
La vida de Gus Edwards, famoso compositor de vodevil, actor y productor.
She Married a Cop
Pa Duffy
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 Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Tell No Tales
Sam O'Neil
Michael Cassidy es el editor de un pequeño periódico que está a punto de ser cerrado. El nuevo propietario, Matthew Cooper, dueño de otro periódico de la ciudad, sólo lo ha comprado para deshacerse de la competencia
Invitation to Happiness
Divorce Judge
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Mike Halloran
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
Lucky Night
Police Lieutenant
Una noche una joven heredera (Myrna Loy) conoce a un vagabundo (Robert Taylor) en un banco del parque. Y durante esa noche de diversión y borrachera se casa con él.
Big Town Czar
Pa Daley
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 Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Undercover Agent
Pat Murphy
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
Tú y yo
Priest (uncredited)
Un elegante play boy y una bella cantante de un club nocturno se conocen a bordo de un transatlántico, gracias a la invitación de otras dos personas. Ella es la amante de un magnate y él está comprometido con una rica heredera. Entre ellos surge un apasionante romance que los llevará a la siguiente promesa: romper con sus compromisos actuales, buscar trabajo y encontrarse a los seis meses, para continuar su vida juntos. Pero un trágico accidente impide a Terry acudir a la cita, con lo que el futuro de ambos sufrirá un giro emotivo e incierto.
King of the Turf
Bartender
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 run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
The Shining Hour
Charlie Collins
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Uña y carne
Pete Whalen
Tom Terry (Wallace Beery) es un ex veterinario eternamente ebrio. Un aspirante a jinete, Mickey, (Mickey Rooney) idolatra a Tom, quien se encargará de salvar a su caballo.
Youth Takes a Fling
Captain Walters
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 more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Campus Cinderella
Horace Howard
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.
Racket Busters
Pop Wilson
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Rebellious Daughters
Dad Elliott
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.
The Main Event
Captain Rorty
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
Numbered Woman
Oscar
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.
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Gibson (uncredited)
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.
Hold That Kiss
Pop - Man Bringing Usher's Clothes
Nace el amor entre un hombre y una mujer cuando ambos piensan que el otro es rico.
Crimen Internacional
Heath
La segunda y última película de Grand National Pictures que presenta The Shadow, interpretada nuevamente por Rod La Rocque. En esta versión, Lamont Cranston es un detective aficionado y presentador de un programa de radio con su asistente Phoebe (no Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz y el Comisionado Weston también aparecen.
King of the Newsboys
Mr. Stephens
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 that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Border Wolves
Judge Coleman
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 them out and sends them after Carson. They join Carson's gang to learn of their next raid but the Marshal arrests them for the wagon train murders.
The Canary Comes Across
Warden Clayton
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 receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.
Maniquí
'Pa' Cassidy
Después de un desgraciado matrimonio con un delincuente, Jessie, una mujer que desea abandonar el humilde barrio de Nueva York en el que siempre ha vivido, hace realidad su sueño cuando conoce al naviero Hennessey.
Love Is a Headache
Pop Sheeman, Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Charlotte, más conocida como Charlie, es una actriz de teatro cuya última obra ha sido un fracaso. No le ayuda mucho la columna semanal de Peter, amigo de la infancia que estuvo enamorada de ella (y todavía lo está), donde resaltaba los aspectos negativos de su trabajo. En tal tesitura, Peter, conmovido por la muerte del tipo que limpiaba las ventanas de su estudio, que deja dos huérfanos, lanza una campaña apoyando su adopción. El agente de Charlie se entera, y decide que la adopción será una magnífica promoción para la carrera de su actriz.
Man-Proof
Gus the Bartender
Triángulo amoroso que surge cuando planea sobre el matrimonio constituido por Walter Pidgeon y Rosalind Russell la sombra del divorcio, y aparece en escena otra mujer, Myrna Loy.
Rosalie
Mr. Callahan
El cadete de West Point, Dick Thorpe, se enamora de una chica, que resulta ser una princesa de un reino europeo.
Las vacaciones del juez Harvey
Sheriff (uncredited)
De vacaciones con su familia en la isla Catalina, Andy Hardy se enamora de una sofisticada belleza. El juez Hardy advierte a su hijo que ella es demasiado lista para él.
Doble boda
Turnkey (uncredited)
Un escritor acepta realizar una obra para una actriz con el objetivo de enamorar a la hermana de ésta.
Big City
John C. Andrews
Taxista en una empresa de Independientes, Joe Benton (Spencer Tracy), está felizmente casado con la linda Anna (Luise Rainer).... pero, su felicidad se ve repentinamente amenazada, cuando ciertos "todopoderosos" pretenden expulsarla del país para acallar un asesinato. Por suerte, Joe y Anna, cuentan con un montón de verdaderos amigos.
Capitanes intrépidos
Captain Walt Cushman
Harvey, el hijo arrogante y malcriado de un padre poco cariñoso, cae por la borda de un barco de vapor transatlántico y es rescatado por un barco de pesca en el Gran Banco de Terranova. Harvey trata de convencerles para que lo lleven a tierra alardeando de su riqueza ante la tripulación, aunque nadie le toma en serio. El capitán le ofrece un trabajo mal pagado hasta que regresen a puerto. El duro trabajo como uno más de la tripulación convierte al joven en un hombre maduro y considerado.
The Good Old Soak
Jake
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.