Sigmund Neufeld

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Sigmund Neufeld (born May 3, 1896 in New York City , United States , † March 21, 1979 in Los Angeles ) was an American film producer specializing in B-Pictures .

Live and act

The son of Simon Neufeld, a German-speaking Jewish immigrant from Budapest, grew up in poor conditions in New York. After his father's death (pneumonia), Sigmund had to start working at the age of eleven. He took on a variety of jobs to help support the family - a mother, two brothers and a sister. Sigmund Neufeld used a horse cart to deliver beer to several saloons, deliver newspapers and sell fruit on the street corner. Most recently, he delivered garments on behalf of a New York tailor. In 1914, Sigmund Neufeld joined the film industry as an errand boy thanks to his delivery job and worked in various functions in the New York branch of Universal Pictures until 1931 . Neufeld, for example, monitored the final editing of short films and was quite successful with it. He also brought his brother Sam Newfield to film in 1919 .

After 17 years, Neufeld went into business for himself and, from 1931, produced a plethora of cheap wests and other B-films - including several horror films during the Second World War - as part of poverty row companies such as the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) Productions by his extremely productive younger brother Sam, who, unlike his brother, had Americanized his German name in the USA in order to maximize his chances of success as a director. After PRC was swallowed by Eagle-Lion Films in 1947, the two brothers switched to the Film Classics company. After this small company was also absorbed by Eagle-Lion, Neufeld joined the even more insignificant Lippert Pictures. At times, the New Yorker had his own production companies with Sigmund Neufeld Productions and Associated Film Releasing Corporations. At the end of the 1950s, Sigmund Neufeld ceased production; the period of cheap productions for suburban cinemas had outlived itself.

Filmography (small selection)

  • 1931: The Missing Link (short film)
  • 1933: Big Time or Bust
  • 1933: The Important Witness
  • 1934: Marrying Widows
  • 1934: The Fighting Trooper
  • 1935: Bulldog Courage
  • 1935: Timber War
  • 1935: The Red Blood of Courage
  • 1936: Aces and Eights
  • 1936: Ghost Patrol
  • 1936: Border Caballero
  • 1936: The Traitor
  • 1938: Crashing Through Danger
  • 1939: Torture Ship
  • 1940: Marked Men
  • 1940: Cowboys - The Battle for the Gold Mine ( Frontier Crusader )
  • 1940: Fuzzy out of control ( Billy the Kid in Texas )
  • 1941: Right of Fist in Texas ( The Lone Rider Rides On )
  • 1941: Dangerous Game ( The Lone Rider in Ghost Town )
  • 1941: Fuzzy Breaks Terror ( Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals )
  • 1941: terror at Colorado ( The Lone Rider Ambushed )
  • 1942: Against arbitrariness and violence ( Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns )
  • 1942: For Life and Death ( Law and Order )
  • 1942: For Law and Law ( Sheriff of Sage Valley )
  • 1942: The Mad Monster
  • 1942: Terror in Texas ( Death Rides the Plains )
  • 1943: For Law and Justice ( Cattle Stampede )
  • 1943: To Life and Death ( The Renegade )
  • 1943: Devil of the prairie ( Raiders of Red Gap )
  • 1943: Dead Men Walk
  • 1943: The Black Raven
  • 1944: The Monster Maker
  • 1944: Death Ride in Texas ( The Drifter )
  • 1944: Oath of Vengeance
  • 1945: Apology for Murder
  • 1945: Shadows of Death
  • 1945: White Pongo
  • 1946: Against arbitrariness and violence ( Outlaw of the Plains )
  • 1946: Lady Chaser
  • 1947: Three on a Ticket
  • 1948: Miraculous Journey
  • 1948: Money Madness
  • 1949: State Department: File 649
  • 1950: Jack the Killer ( Western Pacific Agent )
  • 1950: Gangsters of Chicago ( Hi-Jacked )
  • 1951: Three Desperate Men
  • 1951: Mask of the Dragon
  • 1953: Sins of Jezebel
  • 1955: The Sheriff of Lincoln-City ( Last of the Desperados )
  • 1956: Bank robbery in Mexico ( The Three Outlaws )
  • 1956: Frontier Gambler
  • 1957: Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV series)
  • 1957: The Pathfinder and the Mohican

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 211

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personal data
SURNAME Neufeld, Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1979
Place of death los Angeles