Oscar O'Shea

Oscar O'shea (8 October 1881 – 6 April 1960), born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian-American character actor with over 100 film appearances from 1937 to 1953.

O'shea is a comedian, actor who earned a million dollars but lost it all during the Great Depression. In His first straight rolls, the cams on the Federal Theatre Project's production of It Can't Happen Here, a play based on the novel of the same name. To His first movies was Captains Courageous (1937).

Beginning in 1929, O'Shea, who want the Oscar, what would you suggest the Players repertory theatre company at the Embassy Theatre, in Ottawa, Canada. He eventually ended the enterprise is "to seek the field where his art would be more widely appreciated." He then set up the year's operation in Chicago, "where he managed his own theatre, and a stock company during good and bad years."

O'shea died in Hollywood, California, in 1960, at the age of 78.