Al Shean
Biography
Al Shean, a German-born American, worked as a comedian and vaudeville performer. Dornum in the Kingdom of Prussia was his birthplace. He built his reputation in vaudeville before forming a partnership with Edward Gallagher as Gallagher and Shean. The team was highly successful and their act ended with a last performance in 1925. Shean afterward worked by himself in eight Broadway productions including the title part in Father Malachy's Miracle. On screen he was the piano player called The Professor in San Francisco (1936), a grandfather in The Blue Bird (1940), and a priest in Hitler's Madman (1943); he also appeared in roughly three dozen other films. He and Gallagher shot an early sound film in 1925 in Auburn, New York, at Theodore Case's studio, of which only fragments survive. He died on August 12, 1949.
81years old at death
- Born Dornum
- Died New York City
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- Also credited as Abraham Elieser Albert Schönberg
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 6 years1935 to 1941
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In 1925, Shean and Gallagher appeared in an early sound film made at the Theodore Case studio in Auburn, New York. Only a few fragments of this, their only screen appearance as a duo, are known to exist.
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