- 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.
- With a girth of 300 lbs he often billed himself as 'the young Sydney Greenstreet.
- He was cast with Humphrey Bogart in several films such as To Have and Have Not, Key Largo and Casablanca.
- Often billed himself as 'the young Sydney Greenstreet.
- He retired from films in 1959 and moved into television where he continued playing villains.
- He retired from films in 1959 and moved into television where he continued to be a successful on screen villain,.
- 2 sons: Jeffrey and Gregory
- He began as a burlesque and nightclub performer moving into films in the 1942b film Road to Morocco.
- 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 appeared in both Casablanca and the Marx Brothers parody A Night in Casablanca.
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