Cast
O.Z. Whitehead
Acting
Cast
O.Z. Whitehead
Known for
Acting
Born
1911-03-01
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
1998-07-29
Also known as Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby
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.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Herbert Carruthers
The Grapes of Wrath
as Al Joad
The Horse Soldiers
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
The Lion in Winter
as Bishop of Durham
Summer Magic
as Mr. Perkins
Two Rode Together
as Lt. Whitehead
A Song Is Born
as Professor Oddly
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Zeke
Road House
as Arthur
Ulysses
as Alexander J. Dowie
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
as Isaac Goodpasture
The Last Hurrah
as Norman Cass Jr.
The Scarf
as Whoopie
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Ninny Nat
The Scoundrel
as Calhoun
Journey Into Light
as Lippy
Panic in Year Zero!
as Hogan
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mr. Billings
The Body Beautiful
as Oscar Blunt
The San Francisco Story
as Alfey
The San Francisco Story
Beware, My Lovely
as Mr. Franks
The Hoodlum
as Breckenridge
FBI Girl
as Chauncey
For Men Only
as Prof. Bixby
My Brother Talks to Horses
as Mr. Puddy
Philadelphia, Here I Come
as Ben Burton