O.Z. Whitehead
Acting
Born: 1911-03-01 in New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Perry Mason
Harry Beacom
Studio One
Peter Kovalesky
Suspense
George Vance
Gunsmoke
Hank Blenis
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Newton
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Simms
Hazel
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Herbert Carruthers
Cavalcade of America
The Grapes of Wrath
Al Joad
The Lion in Winter
Bishop of Durham
The Horse Soldiers
Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
Two Rode Together
Lt. Whitehead
Hello, Stranger
Summer Magic
Mr. Perkins
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Isaac Goodpasture
Panic in Year Zero!
Hogan
A Song Is Born
Professor Oddly
The Last Hurrah
Norman Cass Jr.
Comin' Round the Mountain
Zeke
Road House
Arthur
For Men Only
Prof. Bixby
The San Francisco Story
The San Francisco Story
Alfey
My Brother Talks to Horses
Mr. Puddy
Ma and Pa Kettle
Mr. Billings
Ulysses
Alexander J. Dowie
FBI Girl
Chauncey
Beware, My Lovely
Mr. Franks
The Scoundrel
Calhoun
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Ninny Nat
The Hoodlum
Breckenridge
Journey Into Light
Lippy
The Scarf
Whoopie
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Ben Burton