Oscar O'Shea

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Oscar OShea 8 October 1881 6 April 1960 born in Peterborough Ontario Canada was a CanadianAmerican character actor with over 100 film appearances from 1937 to 1953 OShea 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 Cant Happen Here a play based on the novel of the same name His first film was Captains Courageous 1937 Beginning in 1929 OShea operated the Oscar OShea 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 OShea died in Hollywood California in 1960 at age 78