Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
25
Gender
Male
Birthday
March 01, 1911 ( 87 years old )
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead
Zebby
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.
Known For
The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15Road House
1948-09-22Panic in Year Zero!
1962-07-05The Scarf
1951-04-06Beware, My Lovely
1952-08-29The Hoodlum
1951-07-05The Horse Soldiers
1959-06-11The Lion in Winter
1968-10-30The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958-12-23