Biographie

15 janvier 1911 · Brooklyn, Ville de New York, New York, États-Unis

17 mai 2006 · Ville de New York, New York, États-Unis (cancer de la vessie)

Seymour Arnold Feuer

Has won four Tony Awards: in 1951, shared with co-producer Ernest H. Martin, as Best Producers (Musical) for "Guys and Dolls;" in 1962, two Tonys, both again shared with Martin, as Best Producer (Musical) and as co-producer of Best Musical winner "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying;" and in 2003, a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. He was also Tony-nominated six other times: three times in 1963, twice again shared with Martin, as Best Producer (Musical) and co-producer of Best Musical nominee, and once shared with Bob Fosse as Best Director (Musical), for "Little Me;" two times in 1966, again sharing co-producer credit with Martin of Best Musical nominee, as well as on his own as Best Director (Musical), for "Skyscraper;" and one time in 1967, yet again shared with Martin, as co-producer of Best Musical nominee "Walking Happy."

Served in the Army Air Corps during WWII - he spent the war making training films and rose to Captain.

Worked as a trumpet player at Radio City Music Hall, among other theaters, and later became head of the music department at Republic Pictures in the 1930s and into the '40s.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Producers Branch)

One of the many musicals he and partner Ernest H. Martin produced on Broadway was the British show, "The Boy Friend".

I worked harder than everyone else.

You can apply faultless logic, work with geometric precision, allow for every single pitfall, have the perfect cast and the perfect story, and still turn out a dud. There are so many complicating intangibles. It's like the chaos theory. The miracle is that it sometimes works.

[on Liza Minnelli] She's the greatest musical actress and performer we have.