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Al Shean

Al Shean

Known For Acting
Birthday May 12, 1868
Died Aug 12, 1949 (81)
Birthplace Dornum, Germany
Popularity 0.2 (history)
Updated Apr 13, 2024 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg (12 May 1868 – 12 August 1949), known as Al Shean, was a comedian and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg.[6] He is most remembered for bein ... g half of the vaudeville team Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx Brothers. Shean was born in Dornum, Germany, on 12 May 1868, the son of Fanny and Levi or Louis Schoenberg. His father was a magician. His sister, Minnie, married Sam "Frenchie" Marx; their children would become the Marx Brothers. After making a name for himself in vaudeville, Shean teamed up with Edward Gallagher to create the act Gallagher and Shean in the 1920s. While the act was successful, the men apparently did not like each other much. After their act's final Ziegfeld Follies pairing, Shean went on to perform solo in eight Broadway shows, even playing the title character in Father Malachy's Miracle. Shean had some solo film roles: as the piano player, known as "The Professor" in San Francisco (1936), as a priest in Hitler's Madman (1943), as grandfather in The Blue Bird (1940), and in some three dozen other films. He and Gallagher also made an early sound film at the Theodore Case studio in Auburn, New York, in 1925. He died on 12 August 1949.

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Filmography

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

Atlantic City

Atlantic City

1944

as Al Shean

Hitler's Madman

Hitler's Madman

1943

as Father Cemlanek

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor

1943

as Dave, a Convict

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl

1941

as Al

Friendly Neighbors

Friendly Neighbors

1940

as Doc

The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird

1940

as Grandpa Tyl

Broadway Serenade

Broadway Serenade

1939

as Herman

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

1938

as Cellist

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle

1938

as Gumpert

Tim Tyler's Luck

Tim Tyler's Luck

1937

as Professor Tyler

It Could Happen to You

It Could Happen to You

1937

as Max 'Pa' Barrett

Live, Love and Learn

Live, Love and Learn

1937

as Professor Fraum

The Road Back

The Road Back

1937

as Markheim

At Sea Ashore

At Sea Ashore

1936

as Adolph Rumplemeyer

Hitch Hike To Heaven

Hitch Hike To Heaven

1936

as Herman Blatz

San Francisco

San Francisco

1936

as Professor

Symphony of Living

Symphony of Living

1935

as Adolph Greig

Traveling Saleslady

Traveling Saleslady

1935

as Schmidt

Sweet Music

Sweet Music

1935

as Sigmund Selzer

It's in the Air

It's in the Air

1935

as Mr. Johnson

Page Miss Glory

Page Miss Glory

1935

as Mr. Hamburgher

Music in the Air

Music in the Air

1934

as Dr. Walter Lessing

Chills and Fever

Chills and Fever

1930

as Betty's Uncle Emil

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl

1941

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