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O. Z. Whitehead

Actor | * 03/01/1911 († 87, 07/29/1998) | New York City, New York,
Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead (March 1, 1911 – July 29, 1998) was an American stage and film character actor. He was born in New York City and attended Harvard University. Called "O.Z." or "Zebby", he also authored several volumes of biographical sketches of early members of the Baháʼí Faith especially in the West after he moved ("pioneered" as a Baháʼí) to Dublin, Ireland in 1963. ()

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.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Western

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Movies with O. Z. Whitehead as Actor(25)

as Bishop of Durham1968 The Lion in Winter
as Mr. Perkins1963 Summer Magic
as Hogan1962 Panic in Year Zero!
as Herbert Carruthers1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Lt. Whitehead1961 Two Rode Together
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins1959 The Horse Soldiers
as Isaac Goodpasture1958 Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
as Norman Cass Jr.1958 The Last Hurrah
as Oscar Blunt1953 The Body Beautiful
as Mr. Franks1952 Beware, My Lovely
as Prof. Bixby1952 For Men Only
as Breckenridge1951 The Hoodlum
as Lippy1951 Journey Into Light
as Whoopie1951 The Scarf
as Chauncey1951 FBI Girl
as Mr. Billings1949 Ma and Pa Kettle
as Arthur1948 Road House
as Professor Oddly1948 A Song Is Born
as Ninny Nat1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Al Joad1940 The Grapes of Wrath
as Calhoun1935 The Scoundrel

TV Shows/Series with O. Z. Whitehead as Actor(9)

1961 Hazel
as Harry Beacom1957 Perry Mason
as Mr. Newton1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Hank Blenis1955 Gunsmoke
as George Vance1949 Suspense
as Peter Kovalesky1948 Studio One

Full Name: O. Whitehead
Born: Wednesday, 03/01 1911 (March) in New York City, New York,
Died: Wednesday, 07/29 1998 (July) in Dublin (aged: 87)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Harvard University, St. Mark's School
Other names for O. Z. Whitehead (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead"
"Zebby"
O. Z. Whitehead frequently works together with these people:
Harry Townes (23x, Actor)
Robert H. Harris (23x, Actor)
Royal Dano (21x, Actor)
Denver Pyle (20x, Actor)
Robert Karnes (20x, Actor)
Gregg Palmer (20x, Actor)
Vaughn Taylor (19x, Actor)
Victor French (19x, Actor)
Morgan Woodward (18x, Actor)
Virginia Gregg (18x, Actress)
Bartlett Robinson (18x, Actor)
Bill Erwin (17x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:493332, Added: 10/04/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024