Became friends with director
Fritz Lang on the set of Cloak and Dagger (1946) after
Lang discovered he spoke German. Seymour maintained a life-long
friendship with Lang and became the executor of Lang's estate.
Collected rare liquors and cooking spices.
Smoked 12 cigars a day.
Not to be confused with Dan Seymour, well known radio and television announcer who hosted some game shows in the early days of television.
2 sons: Jeffrey and Gregory
Often billed himself as 'the young Sydney Greenstreet.
With a girth of 300 lbs he often billed himself as 'the young Sydney Greenstreet.
He retired from films in 1959 and moved into television where he continued playing villains.
He was cast with Humphrey Bogart in several films such as To Have and Have Not, Key Largo and Casablanca.
Born in Chicago in 1915 he began his career as a burlesque and nightclub performer before making his film debut in the 1942 film Road to Morocco and went on to spending most of his career playing menacing villainous roles ,.
4 granddaughters: Jessica, Lauren, Melissa and Jennifer.
He began as a burlesque and nightclub performer moving into films in the 1942b film Road to Morocco.
He retired from films in 1959 and moved into television where he continued to be a successful on screen villain,.