John Sheehan (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Sheehan (actor)

American actor

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1885

Place of Birth: Oakland, California, United States

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1952

Profession: actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About John Sheehan (actor)

  • John Sheehan (October 22, 1885 – February 14, 1952) was an American actor and vaudeville performer.
  • After acting onstage and in vaudeville for several years, Sheehan began making films in 1914, starring in a number of short films.
  • From 1914-16, he appeared in over 60 films, the vast majority of them film shorts.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.His more notable performances and roles include: the first talking version of the film Kismet (1930), starring Otis Skinner and Loretta Young; a featured role in 1934's Little Miss Marker, starring Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou; Michael Curtiz's Kid Galahad (1937), starring Edward G.
  • Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart; the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy Woman of the Year (1942); the classic biopic The Pride of the Yankees (1943), starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright; another 1943 biographical film, Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney; the Abbott and Costello comedy Buck Privates Come Home (1947); 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.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.

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