Cast & creator
O.Z. Whitehead
Best known for Perry Mason, Studio One, Gunsmoke
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.
Also known as: Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby
28
film credits
8
television credits
36
1935–1992 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (36)
Showing 36 of 36 credits
Perry Mason
Harry Beacom
1957
Studio One
Peter Kovalesky
1948
Gunsmoke
Hank Blenis
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Newton
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Simms
1955
Suspense
George Vance
1949
Hazel
1961
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Herbert Carruthers
1962
The Grapes of Wrath
Al Joad
1940
The Lion in Winter
Bishop of Durham
1968
The Horse Soldiers
Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
1959
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Isaac Goodpasture
1958
A Song Is Born
Professor Oddly
1948
Two Rode Together
Lt. Whitehead
1961
Panic in Year Zero!
Hogan
1962
Comin' Round the Mountain
Zeke
1951
The Last Hurrah
Norman Cass Jr.
1958
Summer Magic
Mr. Perkins
1963
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Ninny Nat
1947
The San Francisco Story
Alfey
1952The San Francisco Story
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle
Mr. Billings
1949
Road House
Arthur
1948
My Brother Talks to Horses
Mr. Puddy
1947
Ulysses
Alexander J. Dowie
1967Hello, Stranger
1992
Beware, My Lovely
Mr. Franks
1952
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Ben Burton
1975
For Men Only
Prof. Bixby
1952
The Scarf
Whoopie
1951
Journey Into Light
Lippy
1951
FBI Girl
Chauncey
1951
The Scoundrel
Calhoun
1935The Body Beautiful
Oscar Blunt
1953
The Hoodlum
Breckenridge
1951