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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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Total trailers found: 85
15 December 1939
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US.
26 August 1944
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
17 February 1939
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys.
07 January 1938
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
16 August 1940
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
26 April 1940
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school.
29 September 1943
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
19 April 1939
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
25 February 1938
Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested.
21 September 1939
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.
04 July 1945
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
01 July 1938
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.
02 November 1940
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.
12 October 1941
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
07 October 1938
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
14 March 1941
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
25 August 1939
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
24 December 1947
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
23 April 1937
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
18 September 1942
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
08 August 1940
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
22 May 1938
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by becoming the home-care nurse for the ailing leader of the gang which actually stole the bonds.
13 May 1938
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
01 December 1939
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
12 June 1939
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
23 August 1940
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
24 December 1937
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
10 November 1943
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
13 March 1942
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
08 August 1946
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
05 May 1939
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick.
20 December 1940
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.
24 October 1944
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
14 January 1938
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
29 May 1944
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
18 March 1938
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.
08 March 1940
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
12 October 1945
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.
01 August 1941
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.
25 December 1948
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.
13 May 1946
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes.
03 May 1939
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.
23 June 1944
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.
11 July 1939
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.
25 October 1941
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
04 April 1942
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
15 October 1937
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
26 June 1947
Two brothers from the North try to gain favor in the South after they inherit a horse farm in Kentucky.
11 September 1941
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football.
23 April 1938
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque.
24 December 1939
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
03 May 1940
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition.
26 November 1938
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
30 June 1944
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis.
02 June 1939
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.
28 October 1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver.
03 July 1942
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
14 June 1943
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
14 January 1943
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.
