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.
O. Z. Whitehead Biography / Wiki
| Name | O. Z. Whitehead |
| Also Know | Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | March 01, 1911 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 87 |
| Deathday | 1998-07-29 |
O. Z. Whitehead Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Road House | Arthur | 1948-09-22 | 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… |
| The Body Beautiful | Oscar Blunt | 1953-08-10 | 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… |
| Beware, My Lovely | Mr. Franks | 1952-08-29 | A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow…. |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Al Joad | 1940-03-15 | 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… |
| The Hoodlum | Breckenridge | 1951-07-05 | 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… |
| The San Francisco Story | Alfey | 1952-05-11 | After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption – and crooked politicians. It isn… |
| The Horse Soldiers | Otis ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins | 1959-06-11 | 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… |
| The Lion in Winter | Bishop of Durham | 1968-10-30 | Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir…. |
| Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! | Isaac Goodpasture | 1958-12-23 | Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army… |
| For Men Only | Prof. Bixby | 1952-01-11 | 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… |
| My Brother Talks to Horses | Mr. Puddy | 1947-02-04 | 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… |
| Panic in Year Zero! | Hogan | 1962-07-05 | While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attac… |
| The San Francisco Story | 1952-05-11 | After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption – and crooked politicians. It isn… | |
| The Romance of Rosy Ridge | Ninny Nat | 1947-08-04 | A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer’s daughter amid postwar unrest…. |
| Summer Magic | Mr. Perkins | 1963-07-07 | Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down o… |
| Ma and Pa Kettle | Mr. Billings | 1949-04-01 | 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… |
| Comin’ Round the Mountain | Zeke | 1951-07-26 | 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… |
| The Scoundrel | Calhoun | 1935-04-30 | 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… |
| Journey Into Light | Lippy | 1951-09-28 | 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… |
| A Song Is Born | Professor Oddly | 1948-10-19 | 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… |
| The Scarf | Whoopie | 1951-04-06 | A man believe 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 wearing…. |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Herbert Carruthers | 1962-04-15 | A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed…. |
| Two Rode Together | Lt. Whitehead | 1961-07-26 | Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages…. |
| FBI Girl | Chauncey | 1951-11-04 | G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division…. |
| The Last Hurrah | Norman Cass Jr. | 1958-12-31 | 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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