Seymour Nebenzal
Seymour Nebenzahl ( born July 22, 1897 in New York; † September 23, 1961 in Munich) was a German - American film producer. After moving in 1938 to the United States, he wrote mostly Seymour Nebenzal.
Life
From his father Heinrich Nebenzahl Seymour Nebenzahl was sent as a young man to Kingston upon Hull in England, where he worked in retail sales and eggs. After banking, he worked in the early 1920s, first as a broker, speculative profits then allowed him but starting your own bank.
Founded in 1925 and Henry Seymour Nebenzahl the Heinrich Nebenzahl & Co GmbH. Jointly owned company with Richard Oswald Produktion GmbH Nero -Film GmbH was founded, which in 1927 converted into a public limited company. Seymour Nebenzahl belonged not only to the Supervisory Board, but also took on the position of production manager. He was able to bind major directors such as Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Fritz Lang to the Nero film, which made the company with their work in the course of a few years to artistically ambitious production company in Germany. Under Seymour Nebenzahl line some of the most important films of the classic Weimar cinema, such as Pandora's Box (1929 ), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929 ), Western Front 1918 ( 1930), The 3- Groschen - Oper ( 1931), camaraderie (1931 ) emerged, M ( 1931), the Mistress of Atlantis (1932) and the Testament of Dr. Mabuse ( 1933).
Following the lead of United Artists founded Seymour Nebenzahl and the actress and film producer Henny Porten 1930, the rental company United Star film.
After coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 went Seymour Nebenzahl, the Jewish faith was, first to Paris, and in 1938 to Hollywood, where he worked from 1942 for the United Producers Releasing Company ( PRC). He had always maintained the gained through his birth in the U.S. American citizenship. Also in 1942 founded Nebenzahl - together with Rudolf Joseph and Erwin O. Brettauer - its own film society, the Angelus Pictures, which produced among other things, Reinhard Heydrich biography " The Hangman ", which came in 1943 under the title Hitler 's Madman in the rental. In June 1944 Nebenzahl separated from Brettauer and founded in Hollywood Nero Films Inc.
Shortly before his death he returned to Germany and founded in Berlin the Nero -Film GmbH, which produced a single film, directed by Franz Peter Wirth.
Seymour Nebenzahl was in 1921 with Else Jacoby, the daughter of the owner of the North German Wool steam laundry, married and is the father of the 1922 -born writer and film producer Harold Nebenzahl. Seymour Nebenzahl (through his father ) is also a cousin of director Robert Siodmak.