| Also Known As: |
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Died: |
June 12, 1983 |
| Born: |
August 10, 1902 |
Cause of Death: |
bronchial pneumonia |
| Birth Place: |
Montreal, Quebec, CA |
Profession: | Cast
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RATE AND COMMENT
FAMILY
| grandfather: |
James Shearer. Carpenter, later a successful timber merchant. Grew up in northern highlands of Scotland; moved to Canada in 1843. |
| father: |
Andrew Shearer. Born c. 1864; died in 1944; took over father's business, which later failed; divorced from Shearer's mother; remarried c. 1931, second wife's name Elizabeth. |
| mother: |
Edith Shearer. Born in 1873 in Islington, Ontario; left her husband with the children after he was unable to provide for them. |
| brother: |
Douglas Shearer. Sound technician and designer. Born on November 17, 1899; died in 1971; long with MGM. |
| sister: |
Athole Shearer. Born in 1900; married to film director Howard Hawks c. 1928-40; died in 1984. |
| son: |
Irving Thalberg Jr. Professor of philosophy. Born August 25, 1930; died of cancer in 1987 at age 57. |
| daughter: |
Katherine Stirling. Bookstore owner. Born on June 13, 1935; at one time married to actor Richard Anderson (perhaps best remembered from TV's "The Six Million Dollar Man"); as of September 1991 owner of the Explorers Bookshop in Aspen, Colorado; married to Bill Stirling. |
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