# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-shean
# Generated: 2026-09-07T01:55:24.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-shean"
name: "Al Shean"
slug: "al-shean"
description: "Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg, known as Al Shean, was a German-born American comedian and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg. He is most remembered for being half of the vaudeville team Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx Brothers."
tagline: "German-American comedian (1868-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al_Shean_in_The_Blue_Bird.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Comedians"
  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
  name: "Comedian"
  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1868-05-12"
deathDate: "1949-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.17
  momentum:             18.15634218289086
  historical:           10.17905866666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790383/"
    handle:    "nm0790383"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/93cc4ce6-b975-407e-b0e2-6bc1b9da7f62"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%B1_%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "أبراهام إليزر أدولف شونبيرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shean"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1027241"
    title: "Al Shean"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump