Al Shean

Known for ActingBorn 1868-05-12Died 1949-08-12Dornum, Germany

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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hitch Hike To Heaven

Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

Chills and Fever

Friendly Neighbors

At Sea Ashore

That's Entertainment, Part II

Tim Tyler's Luck

Ziegfeld Girl

Sweet Music

Page Miss Glory

The Road Back

Broadway Serenade

San Francisco

Symphony of Living

Crime Doctor

Atlantic City

It's in the Air

Traveling Saleslady

Too Hot to Handle

The Great Waltz

The Blue Bird

Live, Love and Learn

Hitler's Madman

Music in the Air

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

It Could Happen to You