Born October 7, 1881· Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
† Died April 6, 1960
14Roles★ 6.5Average rating
Emerging from Peterborough, Ontario, Oscar O'Shea built his craft through early stage work that included a straight role in the Federal Theatre Project’s production of It Can’t Happen Here, after a career as a comic performer that once yielded a fortune later lost in the Great Depression. Transitioning to film, he debuted in Captains Courageous (1937) and went on to amass more than one hundred scr…
