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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.56 |
| Birthday | 1911-03-01 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby, |
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
7.812/1096
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl...
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The Grapes of Wrath
1948
Road House
6.717/46
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with hi...
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Road House
1962
Panic in Year Zero!
6.314/102
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and...
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Panic in Year Zero!
1951
The Scarf
5.735/17
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was...
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The Scarf
1952
Beware, My Lovely
6.143/42
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.
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Beware, My Lovely
1951
The Hoodlum
6.161/28
Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. E...
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The Hoodlum
1959
The Horse Soldiers
6.952/281
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes insta...
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The Horse Soldiers
1968
The Lion in Winter
7.38/400
Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.
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The Lion in Winter
1958
The Last Hurrah
7.177/62
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr...
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The Last Hurrah
1958
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
5.185/27
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army...
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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1951
Comin' Round the Mountain
6/22
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, S...
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Comin' Round the Mountain
1963
Summer Magic
6.663/52
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up...
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Summer Magic
1952
The San Francisco Story
4.875/8
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he me...
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The San Francisco Story
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7.817/1276
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1935
The Scoundrel
6.3/15
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a mont...
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The Scoundrel
1952
The San Francisco Story
4.875/8
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he me...
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The San Francisco Story
1952
For Men Only
6.3/5
A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no acci...
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For Men Only
1961
Two Rode Together
6.392/153
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
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Two Rode Together
1948
A Song Is Born
6.426/47
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub...
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A Song Is Born
1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
6.667/6
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1951
FBI Girl
6.1/10
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
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FBI Girl
1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
7.2/20
The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tob...
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Ma and Pa Kettle
1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
7.5/2
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. Wh...
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My Brother Talks to Horses
1953
The Body Beautiful
9/1
Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's youn...
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The Body Beautiful
1951
Journey Into Light
6.5/4
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunk...
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Journey Into Light
1975
Philadelphia, Here I Come
7/6
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal...
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Philadelphia, Here I Come
1967
Ulysses
5.875/20
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship a...
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Ulysses
1992
Hello, Stranger
9/1
Over lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel, an acquaintance tells the protagonist about his troubles.
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