Ed Gallagher (actor)

Edward Francis Gallagher (1873 – March 28, 1929) was a vaudeville actor and half of the comedy act Gallagher and Shean.<ref name=obit/> Their story was told in an animated movie Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1931)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/{{#if: 0022168

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Biography

Gallagher was born in 1873 in San Francisco, California.<ref>The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance uses San Leandro, California</ref>

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."<ref name="Slide_204">Slide, Anthony (2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 204. Template:ISBN</ref> 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.<ref name="Slide_204"/> The duo broke up in 1914, not performing again until 1920 and then stayed together until 1925.<ref>Slide, Anthony (2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 203. Template:ISBN</ref> They had a featured part in the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies, earning a salary of US$1500 a week (approximately $Template:Inflation 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.<ref name=obit>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Slide, Anthony (2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 204–205. Template:ISBN</ref> 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.

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