
Al Shean
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 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.
Acting (25 movies)

Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
1931

Broadway Serenade
1939

Sweet Music
1935

Symphony of Living
1935

Too Hot to Handle
1938

Ziegfeld Girl
1941

The Great Waltz
1938

At Sea Ashore
1936

Live, Love and Learn
1937

Tim Tyler's Luck
1937

Page Miss Glory
1935

Traveling Saleslady
1935

The Blue Bird
1940

It's in the Air
1935

Friendly Neighbors
1940

Hitch Hike To Heaven
1936

Atlantic City
1944

Crime Doctor
1943

Hitler's Madman
1943

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

Music in the Air
1934

It Could Happen to You
1937

San Francisco
1936

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939

The Road Back
1937
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|