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.
★7.8
MOVIE1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Herbert Carruthers
★7.4
MOVIE1968
The Lion in Winter
as Bishop of Durham
★7.8
MOVIE1940
The Grapes of Wrath
as Al Joad
★6.9
MOVIE1959
The Horse Soldiers
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
★6.4
MOVIE1961
Two Rode Together
as Lt. Whitehead
★9.0
MOVIE1992
Hello, Stranger
★7.2
MOVIE1958
The Last Hurrah
as Norman Cass Jr.
★6.4
MOVIE1948
A Song Is Born
as Professor Oddly
★6.3
MOVIE1962
Panic in Year Zero!
as Hogan
★6.2
MOVIE1951
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Zeke
★5.2
MOVIE1958
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
as Isaac Goodpasture
★9.0
MOVIE1953
The Body Beautiful
as Oscar Blunt
★5.9
MOVIE1967
Ulysses
as Alexander J. Dowie
★7.2
MOVIE1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mr. Billings
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Road House
as Arthur
★6.7
MOVIE1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Ninny Nat
★6.3
MOVIE1952
For Men Only
as Prof. Bixby
★4.9
MOVIE1952
The San Francisco Story
as Alfey
★4.9
MOVIE1952
The San Francisco Story
★6.2
MOVIE1951
The Hoodlum
as Breckenridge
★7.0
MOVIE1975
Philadelphia, Here I Come
as Ben Burton
★6.2
MOVIE1951
FBI Girl
as Chauncey
★5.7
MOVIE1951
The Scarf
as Whoopie
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Journey Into Light
as Lippy
★6.3
MOVIE1935
The Scoundrel
as Calhoun
★6.7
MOVIE1963
Summer Magic
as Mr. Perkins
★6.1
MOVIE1952
Beware, My Lovely
as Mr. Franks
★7.5
MOVIE1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
as Mr. Puddy