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John Sheehan (actor)

{{Short description|American actor (1909–1964)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = John Sheehan

| image = John Sheehan, stock actor (SAYRE 9624).jpg

| caption = Sheehan in 1917

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|10|22|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Oakland, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1952|02|14|1885|10|22}}

| death_place = Calabasas, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1914–1952

| spouse = Blanche Morris Roberts
({{abbr|m.|married}} 19??)

| children = 2

}}

John Sheehan (October 22, 1885 – February 14, 1952) was an American actor and vaudeville performer. After acting onstage and in vaudeville for several years,{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/john-sheehan-p65037|publisher=AllMovie|title=John Sheehan, Biography|last=Erickson|first=Hal|accessdate=July 15, 2015}} Sheehan began making films in 1914, starring in a number of short films. From 1914 to 1916, he appeared in over 60 films, the vast majority of them film shorts.{{Citation needed |date=September 2021}}

Career

He returned exclusively to the stage in 1917, where he remained until the advent of sound films. He returned to the screen with a featured role in the 1930 melodrama, Swing High, starring Helen Twelvetrees.{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12522|title=Swing High: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate= July 15, 2015}}

His more notable performances and roles include: the first talking version of the film Kismet (1930), starring Otis Skinner and Loretta Young;{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=53938|title=Kismet: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate= July 15, 2015}} a featured role in 1934's Little Miss Marker, starring Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou;{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=6563|title=Little Miss Marker: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate=July 15, 2015}} Michael Curtiz's Kid Galahad (1937), starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart;{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=4886|title=Kid Galahad: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate= July 15, 2015}} the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy Woman of the Year (1942);{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27562|title=Woman of the Year: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate=July 15, 2015}} the classic biopic The Pride of the Yankees (1943), starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright;{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27411|title=The Pride of the Yankees: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate=July 15, 2015}} another 1943 biographical film, Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney;{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27569|title=Yankee Doodle Dandy: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate= July 15, 2015}} the Abbott and Costello comedy Buck Privates Come Home (1947);{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=25099|title=Buck Privates Come Home: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate=July 15, 2015}} and the last film to be released in which he appeared was 1952's Somebody Loves Me, starring Betty Hutton and Ralph Meeker, which was released several months after Sheehan's death.{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=50658|title=Somebody Loves Me: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}

While Somebody Loves Me was his last film to be released, the last film which Sheehan worked on was the 1952 Tracy and Hepburn romantic comedy Pat and Mike. Production on Pat and Mike was in early 1952, and it was released in June of that year, four months after Sheehan died.{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=50612|title=Pat and Mike: Detail View|publisher=American Film Institute|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}

Personal life and death

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Sheehan was married to Blanche Morris Roberts, they had two children. He died on February 15, 1952, in Woodland Hills, California, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, in Culver City.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ&dq=wallace+ford+holy+cross&pg=PA163 Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries]

Filmography

(Per AFI database){{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&Type=PN&Tbl=&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=86862&searchedFor=John_Sheehan_&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR|publisher=American Film Institute|title=John J. Sheehan profile|accessdate=January 24, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&retailCheck=&Type=PN&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=87649&AN_ID=&searchedFor=John_J._Sheehan_| publisher=American Film Institute|title=John J. Sheehan profile|accessdate=January 24, 2018}}

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0790596}}

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Category:1885 births

Category:1952 deaths

Category:American vaudeville performers

Category:American male film actors

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:American male silent film actors

Category:Male actors from Oakland, California

Category:Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City