Al Shean
26 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 12, 1868
- Died
- Aug 12, 1949 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Dornum, Germany
- Also known as
- Abraham Elieser Adolph Schoenberg · Al Shearer
Biography
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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.
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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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Al Shean: movies and TV shows
Acting (26)
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
- 1944 Atlantic City
as Al Shean
- 1943 Crime Doctor
as Dave, a Convict
- 1943 Hitler's Madman
as Father Cemlanek
- 1942 The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
as Old Dann
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl
as Al
- 1940 Friendly Neighbors
as Doc
- 1940 The Blue Bird
as Grandpa Tyl
- 1939 Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as Father Reicher
- 1939 Broadway Serenade
as Herman
- 1938 The Great Waltz
as Cellist
- 1938 Too Hot to Handle
as Gumpert
- 1937 Tim Tyler's Luck
as Professor Tyler
- 1937 Live, Love and Learn
as Professor Fraum
- 1937 It Could Happen to You
as Max 'Pa' Barrett
- 1937 The Road Back
as Markheim
- 1936 San Francisco
as Professor
- 1936 At Sea Ashore
as Adolph Rumplemeyer
- 1936 Hitch Hike To Heaven
as Herman Blatz
- 1935 It's in the Air
as Mr. Johnson
- 1935 Page Miss Glory
as Mr. Hamburgher
- 1935 Traveling Saleslady
as Schmidt
- 1935 Sweet Music
as Sigmund Selzer
- 1935 Symphony of Living
as Adolph Greig
- 1934 Music in the Air
as Dr. Walter Lessing
- 1930 Chills and Fever
as Betty's Uncle Emil
Behind the camera (1)
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl
Songs
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1931