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Al Shean
Dornum, 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 g…
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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.
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1944
Atlantic City
Movie Al Shean
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1943
Crime Doctor
Movie Dave, a Convict
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1943
Hitler's Madman
Movie Father Cemlanek
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1942
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Movie Old Dann
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1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie Al
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1940
Friendly Neighbors
Movie Doc
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1940
The Blue Bird
Movie Grandpa Tyl
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1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Movie Father Reicher
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1939
Broadway Serenade
Movie Herman
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1938
The Great Waltz
Movie Cellist
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1938
Too Hot to Handle
Movie Gumpert
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1937
Tim Tyler's Luck
Movie Professor Tyler
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1937
Live, Love and Learn
Movie Professor Fraum
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1937
It Could Happen to You
Movie Max 'Pa' Barrett
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1937
The Road Back
Movie Markheim
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1936
San Francisco
Movie Professor
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1936
At Sea Ashore
Movie Adolph Rumplemeyer
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1936
Hitch Hike To Heaven
Movie Herman Blatz
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1935
It's in the Air
Movie Mr. Johnson
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1935
Page Miss Glory
Movie Mr. Hamburgher
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1935
Traveling Saleslady
Movie Schmidt
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1935
Sweet Music
Movie Sigmund Selzer
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1935
Symphony of Living
Movie Adolph Greig
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1934
Music in the Air
Movie Dr. Walter Lessing
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1931
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
Movie Self
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1930
Chills and Fever
Movie Betty's Uncle Emil
