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O.Z. Whitehead

O.Z. Whitehead

Actor · 1911 – 1998 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie7.8

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.4

    The Lion in Winter

    1968 · 421 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Horse Soldiers

    1959 · 291 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Panic in Year Zero!

    1962 · 106 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Two Rode Together

    1961 · 159 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Summer Magic

    1963 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Road House

    1948 · 46 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Last Hurrah

    1958 · 64 votes

  • Movie6.4

    A Song Is Born

    1948 · 47 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie5.2
  • Movie7.2

    Ma and Pa Kettle

    1949 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie4.9
  • Movie9.0

    Hello, Stranger

    1992 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.5
  • Movie6.1

    Beware, My Lovely

    1952 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.3

    For Men Only

    1952 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Ulysses

    1967 · 21 votes

  • Movie5.7

    The Scarf

    1951 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.2

    FBI Girl

    1951 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Scoundrel

    1935 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Journey Into Light

    1951 · 4 votes

Series7

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hazel

    1961 · 22 votes

  • TV4.6

    Cavalcade of America

    1952 · 5 votes