Dan Seymour
Dan Seymour
Described bluntly as "yeccch" in a 1968 book on movie villains, porcine Dan Seymour has certainly played more than his share of slimy bad guys. Seymour started out as a nightclub comedian, then decided to give movies a try. He was almost immediately cast in heavy roles due to his girth and sinister features. Seymour's career has in many ways been inextricably linked with the 1942 classic Casablanca. He played the small role of Abdul the doorman in that film, went on to a larger part in Warners' Casablanca clone To Have and Have Not (1944), graduated to chief of police in the Marx Brothers spoof A Night in Casablanca (1946), and, coming full circle, was cast in the old Sidney Greenstreet role of Ferrari in Warners' weekly TV series version of Casablanca in 1955. Dan Seymour continued to play small roles in films like The Way We Were into the 1970s, and was frequently seen on TV comedy series of the same era, usually cast as a self-indulgent Middle Eastern potentate. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Dan Seymour:
- Johnny Belinda with Jane Wyman , Lew Ayres , Charles Bickford , Agnes Moorehead , Jan Sterling , Rosalind Ivan , Mabel Paige , Ida Moore , Alan Napier , Monte Blue , Douglas Kennedy , Ian Wolfe , Holmes E. Herbert , Jonathan Hale , Ray Montgomery , Barbara Bates , Franklin Farnum , Creighton Hale , Charles Frank Horvath , Harry "Snub" Pollard , Frederic Worlock
- The Road to Morocco with Bing Crosby , Bob Hope , Dorothy Lamour , Anthony Quinn , Vladimir Sokoloff , Dona Drake , Mikhail Rasumny , Monte Blue , Yvonne DeCarlo , Leon Belasco , Jerry Colonna , Harry Cording , George Givot , Brandon Hurst , George H. Lloyd , Richard Loo , Michael Mark , Nestor Paiva , Andrew Tombes , Stanley Price
- Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart , Ingrid Bergman , Paul Henreid , Claude Rains , Conrad Veidt , Peter Lorre , Sydney Greenstreet , S.Z. Sakall , Dooley Wilson , Joy Page , John Qualen , Leonid Kinskey , Helmut Dantine , Curt Bois , Marcel Dalio , Ludwig Stossel , Mischa Auer , Leon Belasco , Monte Blue , Gino Corrado , William Edmunds , Creighton Hale , Olaf Hytten , Michael Mark , George Meeker , Louis Mercier , Torben Meyer , Alberto Morin , Paul Porcasi , Henry Rowland , Norma Varden
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