1868-05-12 ( 156 years old ) in Dornum, Germany
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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 being 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.
Movies
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Atlantic City
1944-09-15
Crime Doctor
1943-06-22
Hitler's Madman
1943-06-10
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942-07-04
Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Friendly Neighbors
1940-11-17
The Blue Bird
1940-01-15
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939-12-01
Broadway Serenade
1939-04-07
The Great Waltz
1938-11-04
Too Hot to Handle
1938-09-16
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937-12-27
Live, Love and Learn
1937-10-29
It Could Happen to You
1937-06-28
The Road Back
1937-06-01
San Francisco
1936-06-26
At Sea Ashore
1936-04-04
Hitch Hike To Heaven
1936-03-12
It's in the Air
1935-10-10
Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
Traveling Saleslady
1935-03-28
Sweet Music
1935-02-23
Symphony of Living
1935-01-19
Music in the Air
1934-12-13
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
1931-08-29
Chills and Fever
1930-04-26
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