- Edward Gallagher
Edward Gallagher (1873 –
March 28 ,1929 [New York Times obituary, "Ed Gallagher dies; Won Fame with Shean",May 29 1929 .] ) was avaudeville actor and half of the actGallagher and Shean . Their story was told in an animated movie "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean" (1931) [imdb title|0022168|Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean] byMax Fleischer andDave Fleischer who also createdKoko the Clown andBetty Boop . Gallagher and Shean also reportedly made an early sound film at theTheodore Case studio inAuburn, New York in 1925. [cite web
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title=Gallagher and Shean
date=2003-11-19
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accessyear=2008
accessmonthday=February 21]infobox actor
birthdate=1873
birthplace=San Francisco
deathdate=death date|1929|3|28
occupation=Stage actor Born in
San Francisco , he made a name for himself in vaudeville, Gallagher withAl Shean to create the act Gallagher and Shean. While the act was successful, the men apparently did not like each other much.Gallagher first performed with Shean in 1912, but the men broke up in 1914, not performing again until 1920. This latter time, they stayed together until 1925. They had a featured part in the 1922
Ziegfeld Follies , earning a salary of US$1500 a week.Gallagher suffered a nervous breakdown and entered the Rivercrest Sanitarium in
Astoria, Queens , where he died. The final years of his life saw problems with his fourth wife, actressAnn Luther ; stress, and alcoholism.Helen Gallagher, his third wife, a former
Ziegfeld girl andJack Solomon launched what would becomeGallagher's Steak House in November 1927. She would marry Solomon after Gallagher's death.References
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