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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...
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Angels with Dirty FacesMovie • 1938
Blossoms in the DustMovie • 1941
The Roaring TwentiesMovie • 1939
Captains CourageousMovie • 1937
Of Mice and MenMovie • 1939
The Mummy's GhostMovie • 1944
Stranger on the Third FloorMovie • 1940
Without ReservationsMovie • 1946
Love AffairMovie • 1939
Double WeddingMovie • 1937
The Shining HourMovie • 1938
MannequinMovie • 1938
BewitchedMovie • 1945
The Brute ManMovie • 1946