Acting

Harry Seymour

Born June 22, 1891

Died November 11, 1967 · aged 76

No biography available.

Known For

North by Northwest · 1959

North by Northwest

★ 8.01959

MovieThrillerAdventure

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

★ 7.31953

MovieComedyRomance

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

River of No Return · 1954

River of No Return

★ 6.71954

MovieAdventureWestern

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

A Star Is Born · 1954

A Star Is Born

★ 7.11954

MovieDramaMusic

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Monkey Business · 1952

Monkey Business

★ 6.71952

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

I Wake Up Screaming · 1941

I Wake Up Screaming

★ 6.91941

MovieMysteryCrime

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn · 1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

★ 7.51945

MovieDrama

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

Filmography

Sort

North by Northwest · 1959

North by Northwest

★ 8.01959

MovieThrillerAdventure

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Victor - Captain of Waiters (uncredited)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

★ 7.31953

MovieComedyRomance

Louie, Captain of Waiters (uncredited)

River of No Return · 1954

River of No Return

★ 6.71954

MovieAdventureWestern

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Pianist (uncredited)

A Star Is Born · 1954

A Star Is Born

★ 7.11954

MovieDramaMusic

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Wheeler (uncredited)

Monkey Business · 1952

Monkey Business

★ 6.71952

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Clothing Store Salesman (uncredited)

I Wake Up Screaming · 1941

I Wake Up Screaming

★ 6.91941

MovieMysteryCrime

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

Bartender (uncredited)

Aide (uncredited)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn · 1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

★ 7.51945

MovieDrama

Floorwalker at 5 & 10 Cent Store (uncredited)

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

Piano Player (uncredited)

Dangerous Crossing · 1953

Dangerous Crossing

★ 6.41953

MovieMysteryThriller

A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.

Steward (uncredited)

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.

Vaudevillian (uncredited)

Action in the North Atlantic · 1943

Action in the North Atlantic

★ 7.11943

MovieWar

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

Pianist (uncredited)

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

Drunk at Bar (uncredited)

When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

Rocky - Pianist (uncredited)

Marjorie Morningstar · 1958

Marjorie Morningstar

★ 6.31958

MovieDramaRomance

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

Frank (uncredited)

The Strawberry Blonde · 1941

The Strawberry Blonde

★ 7.01941

MovieRomanceComedy

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

Man (uncredited)

Manhattan Melodrama · 1934

Manhattan Melodrama

★ 7.01934

MovieCrimeDrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Piano Player in Casino (uncredited)

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Desk Clerk (uncredited)

A Slight Case of Murder · 1938

A Slight Case of Murder

★ 6.41938

MovieComedyCrime

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

The Singer

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

Piano Player (uncredited)

Violent Saturday · 1955

Violent Saturday

★ 6.71955

MovieDramaCrime

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

Train Conductor

Gentlemen Are Born · 1934

Gentlemen Are Born

★ 7.31934

MovieDramaMusic

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

Fence

When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

Clerk (uncredited)

Frisco Kid · 1935

Frisco Kid

★ 7.01935

MovieAdventureRomance

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

Salesman (uncredited)