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Birthday: May 12, 1868
Place of Birth: Dornum, Germany

Al Shean

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.

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