In 1964 he returned briefly to New York stage in a production I Was Dancing. He guest starred on episodes of Adventures in Paradise, Daktari and Adam-12.
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He worked as a panelist on TV shows and filmed a pilot for a TV sitcom with his wife Virginia Mayo, McGarry and His Mouse (1960) but it was not picked up for a series. He won an Emmy in 1954 but quit the show in 1957. He also starred in the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life from 1954-1956 as Denny Davis, a former GI trying to find a civilian job. He had a support part in It Should Happen to You (1954). He acted in TV programs such as The Revlon Mirror Theater, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Damon Runyon Theater, and Schlitz Playhouse of Stars. Television Īfter his career in film waned - he was largely out of films by 1952 - he took many roles in television. He had a support role in Disc Jockey (1951), then did three films at Fox: Fixed Bayonets (1951) for Sam Fuller, The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951) for George Cukor, and Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952). O'Shea supported John Payne in Captain China (1950) and Dan Duryea in The Underworld Story (1950). He supported Mickey Rooney in The Big Wheel (1949) at United Artists but had the lead in The Threat (1949) a "B" for RKO. He had a support role in Smart Woman (1948), at Allied Artists, and the lead in Parole, Inc. He was Nancy Coleman's leading man in Violence (1947) at Monogram Pictures and played Natty Bumpo in Sam Katzman's version of Last of the Mohicans, Last of the Redmen (1947), with Jon Hall at Columbia. When the show finished he returned to films. O'Shea returned to Broadway with a role in the revival of The Red Mill (1945–47), produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. Back at Fox he had the lead in a B, Circumstantial Evidence (1945). O'Shea then went into It's a Pleasure! (1945), playing a hockey star who marries figure skater Sonja Henie, done for International Pictures. At Fox he made a musical, Something for the Boys (1944), with Carmen Miranda. He had the lead role in Man from Frisco (1944), a fictional account of the career of Henry Kaiser for Republic Pictures, directed by Robert Florey. Fox announced they would make Where Do We Go From Here? with him and Stanley Prager, also in Eve, but it appears to have not been made. That studio contracted him to make two more films. Mark (1944), produced by 20th Century Fox. O'Shea was asked to reprise his stage role in the film version of The Eve of St. The cast included Virginia Mayo who would become O'Shea's second wife. Samuel Bronston offered him the title role in the biopic Jack London (1943), also released through United Artists. O'Shea's work in Eve led to him being offered to play Barbara Stanwyck's leading man in the film Lady of Burlesque (1943) for producer Hunt Stromberg, released through United Artists. The play was a hit and film producers began approaching O'Shea to do screen tests.
O'Shea received acclaim for his performance in the 1942 play The Eve of St. He worked on radio shows such as Superman, Mr District Attorney, The March of Time and Gangbuster. He put together his own dance band, "Michael O'Shea and His Stationary Gypsies", and later broke into radio and the "legitimate" stage, where he was billed for a time as "Eddie O'Shea". Much like his character from Lady of Burlesque (1943), Biff Brannigan, O'Shea was a comedian and emcee at speakeasies. He did a variety of jobs including soda jerk, bricklayer, private detective and bodyguard. O'Shea dropped out of school at 12 and began his acting career in vaudeville by touring with boxing idol Jack Johnson's show. He used the phrase “we are at war” six times to emphasize the threat of COVID-19 to his country as he announced a lockdown well-nigh unprecedented since World War II in its restrictions on personal freedoms.Michael O'Shea (born Edward Francis Michael Patrick Joseph O'Shea Ma– 1973) was known as an American actor who appeared in feature films and later in television and whose career spanned the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. It sounded like a cry from some past bellicose era or a Hollywood movie, but instead it was French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in a March 16 national address.
Instead of parades, remembrances and one last great hurrah for veterans now mostly in their 90s, it’s a time of coronavirus lockdown and loneliness, with memories bitter and sweet - sometimes with a lingering Vera Lynn song in the background.įor so many who went through the horrific 1939-1945 years and have enjoyed relative peace since, Friday felt at times as suffocating as the thrill of victory was liberating three-quarters of a century ago. On the 75th anniversary Friday of the end of World War II in Europe, talk of war is afoot again - this time against a disease that has killed at least a quarter of a million people across the globe.
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