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O.Z. Whitehead

O.Z. Whitehead

Acting
01 Mar 1911
29 Jul 1998
New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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 ...

Also Known As

Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, Zebby

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