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O.Z. Whitehead

O.Z. Whitehead

Actor · Born 1911-03-01 · New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

American character actor of rather bizarre range, a member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company. Originally a New York stage actor of some repute, Whitehead entered films in the 1930s. He played a wide variety of character parts, often quite different from his own actual age and type. He is probably most familiar as Al Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940). But twenty-two years later, in his fifth film for Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Whitehead at 51 was playing a lollipop-licking schoolboy! He continued to work predominantly on the stage, appearing now and again in films or on television. In his last years, he suffered from cancer and died in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, where he had lived in semi-retirement for many years.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) — Herbert Carruthers
  2. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) — Al Joad
  3. The Lion in Winter (1968) — Bishop of Durham
  4. The Horse Soldiers (1959) — Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
  5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Mr. Newton
  6. Two Rode Together (1961) — Lt. Whitehead
  7. Perry Mason (1957) — Harry Beacom
  8. Gunsmoke (1955) — Hank Blenis
  9. Panic in Year Zero! (1962) — Hogan
  10. The Last Hurrah (1958) — Norman Cass Jr.
  11. Summer Magic (1963) — Mr. Perkins
  12. A Song Is Born (1948) — Professor Oddly
  13. Road House (1948) — Arthur
  14. Beware, My Lovely (1952) — Mr. Franks
  15. Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) — Isaac Goodpasture
  16. The Hoodlum (1951) — Breckenridge
  17. Comin' Round the Mountain (1951) — Zeke
  18. Ulysses (1967) — Alexander J. Dowie
  19. Hazel (1961)
  20. Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) — Mr. Billings
  21. The Scarf (1951) — Whoopie
  22. The Scoundrel (1935) — Calhoun
  23. Studio One (1948) — Peter Kovalesky
  24. Suspense (1949) — George Vance
  25. FBI Girl (1951) — Chauncey
  26. The San Francisco Story (1952)
  27. The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) — Ninny Nat
  28. Philadelphia, Here I Come (1975) — Ben Burton
  29. For Men Only (1952) — Prof. Bixby
  30. Cavalcade of America (1952)
  31. Journey Into Light (1951) — Lippy
  32. My Brother Talks to Horses (1947) — Mr. Puddy
  33. The Body Beautiful (1953) — Oscar Blunt
  34. Hello, Stranger (1992)