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Educated in Los Angeles, Canadian-born John Oaker performed for three years at the Burbank Theater before entering films with veteran star-producer Hobart Bosworth, often playing the "other man." Although the dark-haired, slightly sinister-looking Oaker is best remembered for portraying Jean de Metz in Cecil B. DeMille's still-extant Joan the Woman (1916), the young character actor was also prominently featured as "conscience" in the allegorical The Conscience of John David (1916) and, in a welcome change of pace, as Margaret Gibson's romantic interest in The Soul's Cycle (1916). Oaker's screen career lasted until 1920.