From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAbraham 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 acts final Ziegfeld Follies pairing, Shean went on to perform solo in eight Broadway shows, even playing the title character in Father Malachys Miracle.Shean had some solo film roles as the piano player, known as The Professor in San Francisco (1936), as a priest in Hitlers 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.
Old Dann
Film 1942
Self
Film 1931
Herman
Film 1939
Sigmund Selzer
Film 1935
Adolph Greig
Film 1935
Gumpert
Film 1938
Adolph Rumplemeyer
Film 1936
Professor Tyler
Film 1937
Mr. Hamburgher
Film 1935
Schmidt
Film 1935
Betty's Uncle Emil
Film 1930
Mr. Johnson
Film 1935
Doc
Film 1940
Herman Blatz
Film 1936
Al Shean
Film 1944
Dave, a Convict
Film 1943
Father Cemlanek
Film 1943
Dr. Walter Lessing
Film 1934
Max 'Pa' Barrett
Film 1937
Professor
Film 1936
Father Reicher
Film 1939
Markheim
Film 1937