Uncle to The Marx Brothers, he wrote much of their early material and continued
to guide and advise his nephews through their early careers.
Son of Lafe Schoenberg, a magician and ventriloquist who traveled Germany for over 50 years with his wife and children before the family emigrated to the United States in 1860.
Half of the legendary vaudeville team of Gallagher & Shean, he played character parts in a few Hollywood films from 1935 through the 1940s.
Brother of Minnie Marx, mother of the Marx Brothers.