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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:16/05/1976
Atlantic City
Character:Al Shean
Release Date:15/09/1944
Crime Doctor
Character:Dave, a Convict
Release Date:22/06/1943
Hitler's Madman
Character:Father Cemlanek
Release Date:10/06/1943
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Character:Old Dann
Release Date:04/07/1942
Ziegfeld Girl
Character:Al
Release Date:25/04/1941
Friendly Neighbors
Character:Doc
Release Date:17/11/1940
The Blue Bird
Character:Grandpa Tyl
Release Date:15/01/1940
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character:Father Reicher
Release Date:01/12/1939
Broadway Serenade
Character:Herman
Release Date:07/04/1939
The Great Waltz
Character:Cellist
Release Date:04/11/1938
Too Hot to Handle
Character:Gumpert
Release Date:16/09/1938
Tim Tyler's Luck
Character:Professor Tyler
Release Date:27/12/1937
Live, Love and Learn
Character:Professor Fraum
Release Date:29/10/1937
It Could Happen to You
Character:Max 'Pa' Barrett
Release Date:28/06/1937
The Road Back
Character:Markheim
Release Date:01/06/1937
San Francisco
Character:Professor
Release Date:26/06/1936
At Sea Ashore
Character:Adolph Rumplemeyer
Release Date:04/04/1936
Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character:Herman Blatz
Release Date:12/03/1936
It's in the Air
Character:Mr. Johnson
Release Date:10/10/1935
Page Miss Glory
Character:Mr. Hamburgher
Release Date:07/09/1935
Traveling Saleslady
Character:Schmidt
Release Date:28/03/1935
Sweet Music
Character:Sigmund Selzer
Release Date:23/02/1935
Symphony of Living
Character:Adolph Greig
Release Date:19/01/1935
Music in the Air
Character:Dr. Walter Lessing
Release Date:13/12/1934
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
Character:Self
Release Date:29/08/1931
Chills and Fever
Character:Betty's Uncle Emil
Release Date:26/04/1930
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