Personal Info
Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead
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O.Z. Whitehead
Acting
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…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Hello, Stranger
Philadelphia, Here I Come
as Ben Burton
The Lion in Winter
as Bishop of Durham
Ulysses
as Alexander J. Dowie
Summer Magic
as Mr. Perkins
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Herbert Carruthers
Panic in Year Zero!
as Hogan
Two Rode Together
as Lt. Whitehead
The Horse Soldiers
as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins
The Last Hurrah
as Norman Cass Jr.
