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猪 Pig
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English < Old English (Ōscār)
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Oscar Shaw: American actor-singer (1887-1967).
Born (died at age 79).
Oscar Shaw has 3 credits in our database.
The name Oscar means spear of the gods/spear of God.
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Filmography (3)
Biography
Oscar Shaw (born Oscar Schwartz; October 11, 1887 – March 6, 1967) was an American stage and screen actor and singer, best known for his role as Bob Adams in the first film starring the Marx Brothers, The Cocoanuts (1929). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States census records show that Shaw was already working as a stage actor in 1910, while still living with his mother, brother, and stepfather. In 1913, Shaw married Mary Louise Givler (a native of Carlisle, Pennsylvania), in England, where they both appeared in a show called the "First American Ragtime Review" at the London Opera House. The couple lived in the Village of Great Neck Estates until 1937, when they moved to the Thomaston section of Great Neck, first in a private home.
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Oscar Shaw was born on and passed away on at the age of 79.
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Oscar Shaw has 3 credits in our database. Notable titles include Upstage (1926), The King on Main Street (1925), The Great White Way (1924).
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