Selig J. Seligman
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Seligman born in New York and studied at New York University and Harvard Law School. He served on the legal staff of the War Production Board from 1941 to 1943 then in the intelligence arm of the Signal Corp for the 3rd US Arm. He was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Trials and worked for the State Department. In 1946 Seligman joined Paramount and remained there until 1953. In 1953 became a writer-producer at ABC. In 1956 Seligman became a vice president of ABC and was general manager of KABC TV.[1][3]
Seligman established Selmur Productions, named after he and his wife Muriel (m. 1948). Selmur was a wholly owned subsidiary of ABC. It made TV programs for ABC including Combat!. Selmur then went into feature film production starting with Smashing Time.[1][4] His biggest hit was Charly (1968).
He died of a heart attack in 1969, survived by his wife and five children.[5][3]