Acting
O.Z. Whitehead
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.
Filmography
Hello, Stranger
Film · 1992
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Film · 1975
The Lion in Winter
Film · 1968
Ulysses
Film · 1967
Summer Magic
Film · 1963
Panic in Year Zero!
Film · 1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Film · 1962
Two Rode Together
Film · 1961
Hazel
Series · 1961
The Horse Soldiers
Film · 1959
The Last Hurrah
Film · 1958
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Film · 1958
Perry Mason
Series · 1957
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
The Body Beautiful
Film · 1953
Beware, My Lovely
Film · 1952
The San Francisco Story
Film · 1952
The San Francisco Story
Film · 1952
For Men Only
Film · 1952
Cavalcade of America
Series · 1952
The Scarf
Film · 1951
The Hoodlum
Film · 1951
Comin' Round the Mountain
Film · 1951
FBI Girl
Film · 1951
Journey Into Light
Film · 1951
Ma and Pa Kettle
Film · 1949
Suspense
Series · 1949
Road House
Film · 1948
A Song Is Born
Film · 1948
Studio One
Series · 1948
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Film · 1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
Film · 1947
The Grapes of Wrath
Film · 1940
The Scoundrel
Film · 1935