O. Z. Whitehead

O. Z. Whitehead

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.

  • Title: O. Z. Whitehead
  • Popularity: 4.971
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-03-01
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby
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O. Z. Whitehead Movies

  • 1940
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    7.8 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Road House

    Road House

    6.7 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Panic in Year Zero!

    Panic in Year Zero!

    6.2 1962 HD

    While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters...

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  • 1951
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    The Scarf

    The Scarf

    5.5 1951 HD

    A man who is believed 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...

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  • 1952
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    Beware, My Lovely

    Beware, My Lovely

    5.973 1952 HD

    A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

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  • 1951
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    The Hoodlum

    The Hoodlum

    6.2 1951 HD

    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....

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  • 1959
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    The Horse Soldiers

    The Horse Soldiers

    7 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    The Lion in Winter

    The Lion in Winter

    7.4 1968 HD

    Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.

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  • 1958
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    The Last Hurrah

    The Last Hurrah

    7.1 1958 HD

    In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...

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  • 1958
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    Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

    Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

    5.239 1958 HD

    Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret...

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  • 1951
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    Comin' Round the Mountain

    Comin' Round the Mountain

    6 1951 HD

    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,...

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  • 1963
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    Summer Magic

    Summer Magic

    6.656 1963 HD

    Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it...

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  • 1962
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    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    7.8 1962 HD

    Questions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in a small Western town....

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  • 1952
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    The San Francisco Story

    The San Francisco Story

    4.8 1952 HD

    After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It...

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  • 1952
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    The San Francisco Story

    The San Francisco Story

    4.8 1952 HD

    After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It...

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  • 1935
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    The Scoundrel

    The Scoundrel

    6.208 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    For Men Only

    For Men Only

    5.6 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1961
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    Two Rode Together

    Two Rode Together

    6.4 1961 HD

    Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

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  • 1948
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    A Song Is Born

    A Song Is Born

    6.439 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    The Romance of Rosy Ridge

    The Romance of Rosy Ridge

    6.6 1947 HD

    A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

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  • 1951
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    FBI Girl

    FBI Girl

    5.9 1951 HD

    G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.

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  • 1949
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    Ma and Pa Kettle

    Ma and Pa Kettle

    7.2 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    My Brother Talks to Horses

    My Brother Talks to Horses

    6 1947 HD

    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....

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  • 1953
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    The Body Beautiful

    The Body Beautiful

    1 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1951
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    Journey Into Light

    Journey Into Light

    6 1951 HD

    John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife...

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.5 1955 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.6 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.727 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.736 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1958
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    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    5.25 1958 HD

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958...

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  • 1961
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    Hazel

    Hazel

    7 1961 HD

    Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series...

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  • 1949
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    Suspense

    Suspense

    4.556 1949 HD

    An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by...

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  • 1952
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    Cavalcade of America

    Cavalcade of America

    3.5 1952 HD

    Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.736 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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