Cast: Michael O'Shea

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Michael O'Shea. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Underworld Story

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Dan Duryea · Herbert Marshall · Gale Storm · Howard Da Silva

Synopsis Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham. So, with a shrug, he makes the suspicion come true,...

7.0

142 votes

7.0

142 votes

It Should Happen to You!

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Holliday · Peter Lawford · Jack Lemmon · Connie Gilchrist

Synopsis "It Should Happen To You" is the delightful, bubble-headed comedy about Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday), who decides that all one really needs to be famous is a gigantic billboard advertising her name in New York. Well, the trick works and...

7.0

930 votes

7.0

930 votes

The Threat

1949 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Michael O'Shea · Virginia Grey · Charles McGraw · Julie Bishop

Synopsis At Folsom Prison, several inmates escape...including killer Arnold Kluger, who swore revenge on the detective and district attorney who convicted him. Despite precautions, the two men are soon in Kluger's power, together with showgirl Carol whom he suspects of informing...

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6.6

51 votes

6.6

51 votes

The Model and the Marriage Broker

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Jeanne Crain · Scott Brady · Thelma Ritter · Zero Mostel

Synopsis Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man and fixing her up with a nice radiologist. Of course...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

Fixed Bayonets!

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Basehart · Gene Evans · Michael O'Shea · Richard Hylton

Synopsis The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsiblity.

6.1

426 votes

6.1

426 votes

Lady of Burlesque

1943 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Michael O'Shea · J. Edward Bromberg · Iris Adrian

Synopsis Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that's been turned into a burlesque theater. She's popular with the customers, although not with Lolita La Verne, a stuck-up diva who was hoping she'd get the...

5.8

431 votes

5.8

431 votes

5.4

51 votes

Jack London

1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Michael O'Shea · Susan Hayward · Osa Massen · Harry Davenport

Synopsis This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget. Michael O'Shea is well cast as London, whose rugged adventures range from the high seas to the Klondike. London's insatiable wanderlust causes friction in his...

5.3

72 votes

5.3

72 votes

The Big Wheel

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Mickey Rooney · Thomas Mitchell · Mary Hatcher · Michael O'Shea

Synopsis The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

5.0

75 votes

5.0

75 votes

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Mitzi Gaynor · Scott Brady · Mitzi Green · Marguerite Chapman

Synopsis A calculating New York bookie hires a talented singer and dancer to entertain his nightclub. She brings her pet bloodhounds with her. This makes his girlfriend jealous, so she considers spilling the beans on his dealings to the feds.

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Smart Woman

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Edward A. Blatt

Cast Brian Aherne · Constance Bennett · Barry Sullivan · Michael O'Shea

Synopsis The last credited screenplay by Alvah Bessie, using his own name, as he was soon to become one of the Hollywood Ten. This one is a 1940s gender-clasher involving a crusading district attorney, Robert Larrimore, butting heads in court with...

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Something for the Boys

1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Carmen Miranda · Michael O'Shea · Vivian Blaine · Phil Silvers

Synopsis The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from...

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Man from Frisco

1944 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Michael O'Shea · Anne Shirley · Gene Lockhart · Dan Duryea

Synopsis Matt Braddock (a fictional version of real-life Henry Kaiser) is an engineer with revolutionary ideas for shipbuilding. When he tries to set up yards for prefabricating ships on the West Coast, he runs up against a rival builder, Joel Kennedy....

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Parole, Inc.

1948 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Zeisler

Cast Michael O'Shea · Turhan Bey · Evelyn Ankers · Virginia Lee

Synopsis When several notorious criminals are unjustifiably released on parole, the Federal Government smells a rat and sends ace agent Richard Hendricks to investigate. Hendricks infiltrates the gang, responsible for the parole racket by posing as a much-wanted convict Rick Carson....

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Captain China

1950 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast John Payne · Gail Russell · Jeffrey Lynn · Lon Chaney Jr.

Synopsis Charles Chinnough, aka Captain China, washed ashore off his ship during a storm, is later rescued, but is relieved of duty when his former first mate, Brendensen (who thought he was dead), and two aides, testify falsely against him in...

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Violence

1947 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Jack Bernhard

Cast Nancy Coleman · Michael O'Shea · Sheldon Leonard · Peter Whitney

Synopsis Undersover magazine reporter Ann Mason is able to infiltrate a neo-facist organization that recruits disgruntled war veterans with a paranoiac populist message that views both labor and management as enemies. She becomes secretary to the organization's leader, True Dawson, a...

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It's a Pleasure

1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Sonja Henie · Michael O'Shea · Marie McDonald · Bill Johnson

Synopsis Don Martin is a star hockey player with the Wildcats until he is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ice-show as the novelty act....

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Circumstantial Evidence

1945 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction John Larkin

Cast Michael O'Shea · Lloyd Nolan · Trudy Marshall · Billy Cummings

Synopsis When his son is abused, Joe Reynolds threatens to kill the man responsible. When that man is killed, Joe finds himself facing the electric chair.

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