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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 1, 1911
Died
July 29, 1998
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead
- Zebby
O.Z. Whitehead
2.0 Popularity
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 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
6.8
Ben Burton
Philadelphia, Here I Come
1975
7.4
Bishop of Durham
The Lion in Winter
1968
5.8
Alexander J. Dowie
Ulysses
1967
6.6
Mr. Perkins
Summer Magic
1963
6.2
Hogan
Panic in Year Zero!
1962
7.8
Herbert Carruthers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
6.8
Hazel
1961
6.4
Lt. Whitehead
Two Rode Together
1961
7.0
Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
The Horse Soldiers
1959
7.2
Norman Cass Jr.
The Last Hurrah
1958
Credits
Philadelphia, Here I Come
as Ben Burton
1975
6.8
The Lion in Winter
as Bishop of Durham
1968
7.4
Ulysses
as Alexander J. Dowie
1967
5.8
Summer Magic
as Mr. Perkins
1963
6.6
Panic in Year Zero!
as Hogan
1962
6.2
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Herbert Carruthers
1962
7.8
Hazel
1961
6.8
Two Rode Together
as Lt. Whitehead
1961
6.4
The Horse Soldiers
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
1959
7.0
The Last Hurrah
as Norman Cass Jr.
1958
7.2
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
as Isaac Goodpasture
1958
5.2
Perry Mason
as Harry Beacom
1957
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Newton
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Simms
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Hank Blenis
1955
6.6
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The Body Beautiful
as Oscar Blunt
1953
0.0
Cavalcade of America
1952
3.5
Beware, My Lovely
as Mr. Franks
1952
6.0
The San Francisco Story
1952
4.6
The San Francisco Story
as Alfey
1952
4.6
For Men Only
as Prof. Bixby
1952
5.6
FBI Girl
as Chauncey
1951
5.8
Journey Into Light
as Lippy
1951
6.0
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Zeke
1951
5.8
The Hoodlum
as Breckenridge
1951
6.1
The Scarf
as Whoopie
1951
5.6
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mr. Billings
1949
6.9
Suspense
as George Vance
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Peter Kovalesky
1948
5.0
A Song Is Born
as Professor Oddly
1948
6.3
Road House
as Arthur
1948
6.7
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Ninny Nat
1947
6.6
My Brother Talks to Horses
as Mr. Puddy
1947
6.0
The Grapes of Wrath
as Al Joad
1940
7.8
The Scoundrel
as Calhoun
1935
6.2