Dan Seymour

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Born

February 22, 1915

Died

May 25, 1993

Cause of Death

Stroke

Biography

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Stocky, swarthy character actor with a quiet, insinuating voice, who began appearing onscreen in the early 1940s and graced dozens of films thereafter, most memorably as ominous and snidely unpleasant villains. A reliable actor busy through the late 50s, Seymour played one of his best-remembered roles in "Casablanca" (1943), as Abdul the Arab, the door guard of Rick's casino. He also act...

Filmography

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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

The Centerfold Girls (1974)

The Way We Were (1973)

The Unholy Rollers (1972)

Used car dealer

Return of the Fly (1959)

Photos & Videos

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Casablanca (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Letters Of Transit

To Have And Have Not (1944) -- (Movie Clip) A Stray Bullet

Family & Companions

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Evelyn Seymour

Wife

Survived him.

Biography

Stocky, swarthy character actor with a quiet, insinuating voice, who began appearing onscreen in the early 1940s and graced dozens of films thereafter, most memorably as ominous and snidely unpleasant villains. A reliable actor busy through the late 50s, Seymour played one of his best-remembered roles in "Casablanca" (1943), as Abdul the Arab, the door guard of Rick's casino. He also acted opposite Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" (1944) and "Key Largo" (1948) in somewhat more sizable roles.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

The Centerfold Girls (1974)

The Way We Were (1973)

The Unholy Rollers (1972)

Used car dealer

Return of the Fly (1959)

The Sad Sack (1957)

The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

Undersea Girl (1957)

Lt. Mike Travis

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Moonfleet (1955)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Human Desire (1954)

Second Chance (1953)

The Big Heat (1953)

The System (1953)

Tangier Incident (1953)

Insp. Paul Rabat

Rancho Notorious (1952)

Face to Face (1952)

Glory Alley (1952)

Sal Nichols "The Pig"

Mara Maru (1952)

The Blue Veil (1951)

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950)

Charlie Crawford

Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)

Young Man with a Horn (1950)

Highway 13 (1949)

Trail of the Yukon (1949)

The Black Book (1949)

Key Largo (1948)

Johnny Belinda (1948)

Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)

Slave Girl (1947)

Intrigue (1947)

Philo Vance's Gamble (1947)

A Night in Casablanca (1946)

[Captain Brizzard] Prefect of police

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

The Searching Wind (1946)

The Spanish Main (1945)

Confidential Agent (1945)

It's in the Bag! (1945)

San Antonio (1945)

Head customs officer

To Have and Have Not (1944)

Rainbow Island (1944)

Klondike Kate (1943)

Tahiti Honey (1943)

Tiger Fangs (1943)

Rhythm of the Islands (1943)

Hit the Ice (1943)

The Talk of the Town (1942)

Bombs over Burma (1942)

Casablanca (1942)

Road to Morocco (1942)

Mug Town (1942)

Doorman at movie theater

Life Events

Videos

Casablanca (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Letters Of Transit Introduction of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) at his Cafe` Americain, dismissing a smarmy German (Gregory Gaye), receiving sneaky Ugarte (Peter Lorre) introducing a key plot point, Dan Seymour the doorman, in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, 1942.

To Have And Have Not (1944) -- (Movie Clip) A Stray Bullet In French Martinique, boat captain Harry (Humphrey Bogart), with would-be thief Marie (Lauren Bacall), is making his deadbeat client pay up when Nazi-backed goons come after Frenchy (Marcel Dalio) and comrades, Capitane Renarde (Dan Seymour) mopping up, in To Have And Have Not, 1944.

Watusi (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought You Were A Greenhorn From the opening establishing “Africa, 1919,” with George Montgomery hiking through the savannah, he meets Mohamet (Dan Seymour), then Cobb (David Farrar) and Jim-Jim (Robert Goodwin), and finally introduces himself, in MGM’s semi-sequel to King Solomon’s Mines, 1950, Watusi, 1959.

Key Largo (1948) -- (Movie Clip) He Wants More Ensemble scene from Key Largo 1948, in which moll Gaye (Claire Trevor) trembles, Temple (Lionel Barrymore) fumes, and Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) dares McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) to shoot, John Huston directing from Maxwell Anderson's play.

Black Book, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Messenger From Paris Evil Duval (Charles Gordon) gets killed by lurking hero D'Aubigny (Robert Cummings) who must then deal with Madelon (Arlene Dahl), sent to kill the same guy, French post-revolutionary espionage, in Anthony Mann's The Black Book (a.k.a. Reign Of Terror), 1949.

Glory Alley (1952) -- (Movie Clip) You Have A Flaw Boxer Socks (Ralph Meeker) in a New Orleans bar, mocked by a gambler (Dan Seymour) for walking out on a fight, trying to explain to blind friend “The Judge” (Kurt Kasznar), who’s his girlfriend’s father, his trainer, musician Shadow (Louis Armstrong) philosophical, in Glory Alley, 1952.

Way We Were, The - (Original Trailer) Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in one of the '70's greatest romances wrapped around the turbulent American politics of the 30's and 40's.

Johnny Belinda - (Original Trailer) Jane Wyman won a Best Actress Award portraying a deaf-mute girl who learns to communicate with the help of a small town doctor (Lew Ayres) in Johnny Belinda (1948), directed by Jean Negulesco.

Sad Sack, The - (Original Trailer) A hopelessly innocent private (Jerry Lewis) gets himself kidnapped in Morocco in The Sad Sack (1957).

San Antonio -- (Original Trailer) An ex-rustler tracks down a band of cattle thieves and tries to reform a crooked dance-hall girl in the Warner Bros. Technicolor Western San Antonio (1945) starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith.

Road To Morocco - (Original Trailer) Bob Hope and Bing Crosby set off for the Sahara in their best "road" movie, Road To Morocco (1942).

Moonfleet - (Original Trailer) A British buccaneer (Stewart Granger) is torn among three seductive women in Fritz Lang's Moonfleet (1955).

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt -- (Original Trailer) Director Fritz Lang's last American movie, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1956), concerns a novelist (Dana Andrews) who frames himself for murder.

Second Chance - (Original Trailer) Robert Mitchum vs. Jack Palance in Second Chance (1953), a 3-D, color film noir shot in Mexico.

Rancho Notorious - (Original Trailer) A cowboy (Arthur Kennedy) infiltrates a bandit hideaway - the Chuck-a-Luck - in search of his girlfriend's killer in Rancho Notorious (1952), Fritz Lang's cult Western featuring Marlene Dietrich in one of her definitive screen portrayals.

Night In Casablanca, A - (Original Trailer) Of all the movie stars in all the world, The Marx Brothers have to parody Humphrey Bogart in A Night In Casablanca (1946).

Confidential Agent - (Original Trailer) Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall go undercover to fight the fascists in Confidential Agent (1945).

Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy - (Original Trailer) View Trailer

Family

Gregory Seymour

Son

Survived him.

Jeff Seymour

Son

Survived him.

Companions

Evelyn Seymour

Wife

Survived him.

Bibliography

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