Ed Gallagher (actor)
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{{Infobox person
| name=Ed Gallagher
| image = Gallagher LCCN2014715107 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Gallagher in 1924
| birth_date = 1873
| birth_name = Edward Francis Gallagher
| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| death_date = March 28, 1929 (aged 55-56)
| death_place = River Crest Sanitarium, Astoria, Queens, New York, U.S.
| spouse = Helen Gallagher (divorced)
{{marriage|Anna Luther|1923|1924}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/12/06/archives/edward-gallagher-weds-shean-best-man-at-partners-marriage-to-ann.html|title = EDWARD GALLAGHER WEDS.; Shean Best Man at Partner's Marriage to Ann Luther|newspaper = The New York Times|date = December 6, 1923}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wuiqBOhbo_4C&q=anna+luther+edward+gallagher&pg=RA18-PP13|title = Time|year = 1924}}
| occupation = Stage actor
}}
Edward Francis Gallagher (1873 – March 28, 1929) was a vaudeville actor and half of the comedy act Gallagher and Shean. Their story was told in an animated movie Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1931){{IMDb title|0022168|Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean}} 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.{{cite web
|url = http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GallagherandShean1925.html
|title = Gallagher and Shean
|date = November 19, 2003
|publisher = CBX Media
|access-date = February 21, 2008
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071119020224/http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GallagherandShean1925.html
|archive-date = November 19, 2007
}}
Biography
Gallagher was born in 1873 in San Francisco, California.The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance uses San Leandro, California
For fifteen years, Gallagher partnered with Joe Barrett in a comedy act that was best known for military burlesques, particularly "The Battle of Too Soon."Slide, Anthony (2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 204. {{ISBN|1-61703-250-6}} Gallagher subsequently teamed with Al 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 York. The duo broke up in 1914, not performing again until 1920 and then stayed together until 1925.Slide, Anthony (2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 203. {{ISBN|1-61703-250-6}} They had a featured part in the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies, earning a salary of US$1500 a week (approximately ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1500|1922|r=-3}}}} today).
His fourth wife was actress Anne Luther.
He had a nervous breakdown in 1925 and in 1926 was institutionalized at the River Crest Sanitarium in Astoria, New York, where he died on March 28, 1929.{{cite news |title=Ed Gallagher Dies, Won Fame with Shean |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990DEFD71330E33ABC4151DFB3668382639EDE |quote=Member of Noted Vaudeville Team Never Recovered From Breakdown Four Years Ago. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 29, 1929 |access-date=November 29, 2014 }}Slide, Anthony (2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 204–205. {{ISBN|1-61703-250-6}} He was buried in Kensico Cemetery.
Legacy
Helen Gallagher, his third wife, a former Ziegfeld girl, and Jack Solomon launched what would become Gallagher's Steak House in November 1927. She married Solomon after Gallagher's death.
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|1071855}}
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