O. Z. Whitehead

1911-03-01 New York City, New York, USA

Biografia

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.

Películas

	The Lion in Winter	Bishop of Durham	1968-10-30
	Summer Magic	Mr. Perkins	1963-07-07
	Panic in Year Zero!	Hogan	1962-07-05
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Herbert Carruthers	1962-04-13
	Two Rode Together	Lt. Whitehead	1961-07-26
	The Horse Soldiers	Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins	1959-06-11
	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!	Isaac Goodpasture	1958-12-23
	The Last Hurrah	Norman Cass Jr.	1958-12-31
	The Body Beautiful	Oscar Blunt	1953-08-10
	The San Francisco Story	Alfey	1952-05-11
	For Men Only	Prof. Bixby	1952-01-11
	The San Francisco Story		1952-05-11
	Beware, My Lovely	Mr. Franks	1952-08-29
	FBI Girl	Chauncey	1951-11-04
	Journey Into Light	Lippy	1951-09-28
	The Hoodlum	Breckenridge	1951-07-05
	The Scarf	Whoopie	1951-04-06
	Comin' Round the Mountain	Zeke	1951-07-26
	Ma and Pa Kettle	Mr. Billings	1949-04-01
	A Song Is Born	Professor Oddly	1948-10-19
	Road House	Arthur	1948-09-22
	My Brother Talks to Horses	Mr. Puddy	1947-02-04
	The Romance of Rosy Ridge	Ninny Nat	1947-08-04
	The Grapes of Wrath	Al Joad	1940-03-15
	The Scoundrel	Calhoun	1935-04-30