O.Z. Whitehead
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Anthony Harvey
Writers: James Goldman,
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jane Merrow, John Castle, Katharine Hepburn, Kenneth Ives, Nigel Stock, Nigel Terry, O.Z. Whitehead, Peter O'Toole, Timothy Dalton,
Director: John Ford
Writers: Martin Rackin,
Cast: Bing Russell, Constance Towers, Hank Worden, Hoot Gibson, John Wayne, Judson Pratt, Ken Curtis, O.Z. Whitehead, William Holden, Willis Bouchey,
Director: John Ford
Writers: Nunnally Johnson,
Cast: Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Eddie Quillan, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, John Qualen, O.Z. Whitehead, Russell Simpson, Zeffie Tilbury,