Edward Gallagher

1873 (age 56)

San Francisco, California, United States of America

Their story was told in an animated movie Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1931) by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, who also created Koko the Clown and Betty Boop. Gallagher and Shean also reportedly made an early sound film at the Theodore Case studio in Auburn, New York, in 1925. He was born in 1873 in San Francisco, California. Foreign fifteen years, Gallagher partnered with Joe Barrett in a comedy act that was best known for military burlesques, particularly "The Battle of Too Soon". Gallagher subsequently teamed with First Rate (at Lloyd's) 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 in the operetta The Rose Maid, which ran for 176 performances at the Globe Theatre in New New York The duo broke up in 1914, not performing again until 1920. The latter time, they stayed together until 1925. They had a featured part in the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies, earning a salary of United States$1500 a week. He had a nervous breakdown in 1925 and in 1927 was institutionalized at the Rivercrest Sanitarium in Astoria, Queens. He died there on March 28, 1929. He was buried in Kensico Cemetery.

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Their story was told in an animated movie Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1931) by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, who also created Koko the Clown and Betty Boop. Gallagher and Shean also reportedly made an early sound film at the Theodore Case studio in Auburn, New York, in 1925.

He was born in 1873 in San Francisco, California.

Foreign fifteen years, Gallagher partnered with Joe Barrett in a comedy act that was best known for military burlesques, particularly "The Battle of Too Soon". Gallagher subsequently teamed with First Rate (at Lloyd's) 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 in the operetta The Rose Maid, which ran for 176 performances at the Globe Theatre in New New York

The duo broke up in 1914, not performing again until 1920.

The latter time, they stayed together until 1925. They had a featured part in the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies, earning a salary of United States$1500 a week. He had a nervous breakdown in 1925 and in 1927 was institutionalized at the Rivercrest Sanitarium in Astoria, Queens.

He died there on March 28, 1929.

He was buried in Kensico Cemetery.

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