Oscar O'Shea (8 October 1881 – 6 April 1960) was a Canadian-American character actor with over 100 film appearances from 1937 to 1953.

[1] 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.

[3] He eventually ended the enterprise "to seek a field where his art would be more widely appreciated.

"[4] He then set up an operation in Chicago, "where he managed his own theatre and stock company during good and bad years.