- 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).
- He produced 46 films between 1927 and 1961.
- Associate producer of the M (1951) was his son Harold Nebenzal (born March 31, 1922 in Berlin) who became a script writer (The Wilby Conspiracy), film producer (Cabaret, Gabriela) and novelist (Cafe Berlin). Harold was in charge of foreign film production for many years for MGM, and also worked on many of the films of Billy Wilder, Harold's closest friend for 30 years.
- Seymour had years earlier made possible Wilder's first film, People on Sunday, by borrowing the needed funds to make the picture from his father, Heinrich.
- His son Harold Nebenzahl became a writer and film producer.
- He got into film production through his father Heinrich Nebenzahl (1870-1938) who in the early 1920s worked with German action star Harry Piel.
- Shortly before his passing Seymour Nebenzahl returned to Germany where he produced his last movie with "Bis zum Ende aller Tage" (1961).
- In 1939 he went on to Hollywood where he became one of the first independent producers.
- The film business exerted a magic pull to him and he founded his own film company in 1925. Two years later his company combined with the company of Richard Oswald and they became the Nero-Film GmbH.
- With the rise of the National Socialist the Jew Seymour Nebenzahl was no longer able to work in Germany. He left his country and first went to Paris where he produced other movies like "La vie parisienne" (1936).
- In Paris he produced films by other exiles from Germany such as his cousin Robert Siodmak and Max Ophüls as well as Anatole Litvak, Fedor Ozep, and Raymond Bernard.
- He produced remakes of his successes from the early 1930s: Siren of Atlantis with Maria Montez and M (1951), that was directed by Joseph Losey.
- The film producer Seymour Nebenzahl finished an education at a bank and afterwards he worked as an estate agent before he founded his own bank.
- He went to the USA where he gained a foothold as a producer again.
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