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- Birth nameDaniel Seymour Katz
- Daniel Seymour Katz (Dan Seymour's original name) attended Senn High School in Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. in Fine Arts. While in college, he worked in many school plays and also worked at night as an emcee at various Chicago nightclubs becoming quite successful. He moved to Hollywood, where his rotund build (265 pounds), and swarthy looks made him perfect for a Hollywood heavy, and changed his name. He wed Evelyn Schwartz in 1949. The couple had two children: Jeff (born 1950) and Greg (born 1954).
- IMDb mini biography by: Bill Hafker (updated by Robert Sieger)
- SpouseEvelyn Lois Schwartz(March 29, 1949 - May 25, 1993) (his death, 2 children)
- 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.
- He was cast with Humphrey Bogart in several films such as To Have and Have Not, Key Largo and Casablanca.
- With a girth of 300 lbs he often billed himself as 'the young Sydney Greenstreet.
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