O.Z. Whitehead
Acting
1911-03-01 · New York City, New York, USA
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
1992 · Movie
Philadelphia, Here I Come
1975 · Movie
The Lion in Winter
1968 · Movie
Ulysses
1967 · Movie
Summer Magic
1963 · Movie
Panic in Year Zero!
1962 · Movie
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Movie
Hazel
1961 · Series
Two Rode Together
1961 · Movie
The Horse Soldiers
1959 · Movie
The Last Hurrah
1958 · Movie
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958 · Movie
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
The Body Beautiful
1953 · Movie
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Series
Beware, My Lovely
1952 · Movie
The San Francisco Story
1952 · Movie
For Men Only
1952 · Movie
FBI Girl
1951 · Movie
Journey Into Light
1951 · Movie
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951 · Movie
The Hoodlum
1951 · Movie
The Scarf
1951 · Movie
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949 · Movie
Suspense
1949 · Series
Studio One
1948 · Series
A Song Is Born
1948 · Movie
Road House
1948 · Movie
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · Movie
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947 · Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie
The Scoundrel
1935 · Movie