Al Shean
Birthday
1868/05/12
Day of death
1949/08/12 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Dornum, Germany
Also know as
Abraham Elieser Adolph Schoenberg, Al Shearer
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1942) The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
as Old Dann
(1931) Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
as Self
(1939) Broadway Serenade
as Herman
(1935) Sweet Music
as Sigmund Selzer
(1935) Symphony of Living
as Adolph Greig
(1938) Too Hot to Handle
as Gumpert
(1941) Ziegfeld Girl
as Al
(1938) The Great Waltz
as Cellist
(1936) At Sea Ashore
as Adolph Rumplemeyer
(1937) Live, Love and Learn
as Professor Fraum
(1937) Tim Tyler's Luck
as Professor Tyler
(1935) Page Miss Glory
as Mr. Hamburgher
(1935) Traveling Saleslady
as Schmidt
(1940) The Blue Bird
as Grandpa Tyl
(1930) Chills and Fever
as Betty's Uncle Emil
(1935) It's in the Air
as Mr. Johnson
(1940) Friendly Neighbors
as Doc
(1936) Hitch Hike To Heaven
as Herman Blatz
(1944) Atlantic City
as Al Shean
(1943) Crime Doctor
as Dave, a Convict
(1943) Hitler's Madman
as Father Cemlanek
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1934) Music in the Air
as Dr. Walter Lessing
(1937) It Could Happen to You
as Max 'Pa' Barrett
(1936) San Francisco
as Professor
(1939) Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as Father Reicher
(1937) The Road Back
as Markheim