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- Seymour Nebenzal was born on July 22, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA. Seymour was a producer, known for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), People on Sunday (1930) and The Threepenny Opera (1931). Seymour died on September 22, 1961 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Ran Nero Films.
- Uncle of Robert Siodmak and Curt Siodmak
- Important German film executive of the 1920's, head of Nero Films. Forced to leave Germany due to his Jewish background in 1933, he spent some time in France. Settling in the U.S. in 1939, he acquired a financial stake in the Poverty Row studio PRC (Producer's Releasing Corporation), for which he was also active as a producer, often on films directed by Douglas Sirk or Edgar G. Ulmer.
- Seymour Nebenzahl was able to engage well-known movie directors for the Nero Film and Seymour Nebenzahl produced popular silent movies like "Sein grösster Bluff" (1927), "Die Büchse der Pandora" (1929) and "Ehe in Not" (1929).
- He realised some important German movies at the beginning of the 30s, among them "Westfront 1918" 1930), "Kohlhiesels Töchter" (1930), "Die 3 Groschen-Oper" (1931), "M" (1931) and "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" (1933).
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