Al Shean
Al Shean is known for San Francisco (1936), The Blue Bird (1940), That's Entertainment, Part II (1976).
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 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.
Questions about Al Shean
How many Al Shean films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 19 films with Al Shean, from 1934 to 1976.
What was the first Al Shean film?
The first Al Shean film in the catalogue is San Francisco, from 1936.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
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6.7 Ziegfeld Girl
1941
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6.6 San Francisco
1936
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5.8 The Blue Bird
1940
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7.0 That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
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5.9 The Great Waltz
1938
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5.5 Hitler's Madman
1943
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6.0 Too Hot to Handle
1938
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5.6 Live, Love and Learn
1937
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5.6 Music in the Air
1934
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6.3 Atlantic City
1944
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9.0 The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942
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6.7 Page Miss Glory
1935
Full filmography
27 films — 19 in the catalogue
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7.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
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6.3
Atlantic City
1944 · Al Shean
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6.4 Crime Doctor
1943 · Dave, a Convict
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5.5
Hitler's Madman
1943 · Father Cemlanek
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9.0
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942 · Old Dann
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6.7
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Al
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8.0 Friendly Neighbors
1940 · Doc
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5.8
The Blue Bird
1940 · Grandpa Tyl
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5.0 Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939 · Father Reicher
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6.6 Broadway Serenade
1939 · Herman
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5.9
The Great Waltz
1938 · Cellist
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6.0
Too Hot to Handle
1938 · Gumpert
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7.0 Tim Tyler's Luck
1937 · Professor Tyler
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5.6
Live, Love and Learn
1937 · Professor Fraum
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3.0 It Could Happen to You
1937 · Max 'Pa' Barrett
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6.7 The Road Back
1937 · Markheim
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6.6
San Francisco
1936 · Professor
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8.0 At Sea Ashore
1936 · Adolph Rumplemeyer
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10.0 Hitch Hike To Heaven
1936 · Herman Blatz
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6.3 It's in the Air
1935 · Mr. Johnson
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6.7
Page Miss Glory
1935 · Mr. Hamburgher
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6.1 Traveling Saleslady
1935 · Schmidt
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6.8 Sweet Music
1935 · Sigmund Selzer
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6.5 Symphony of Living
1935 · Adolph Greig
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5.6
Music in the Air
1934 · Dr. Walter Lessing
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10.0 Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
1931 · Self
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9.0
Chills and Fever
1930 · Betty's Uncle Emil
People data: TMDb.
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