- In an interview, his nephew Sigmund Neufeld Jr. stated that Sam suffered from a serious gambling addiction for most of his life, which kept him virtually penniless most of the time and eventually caused the break-up of his marriage. When he finally retired after 30+ years making movies, he was so broke that his brother Sigmund Neufeld paid off his gambling debts and set him up in an apartment in Hollywood, seeing that his bills were paid and that he had enough money to live on.
- Brother of Sigmund Neufeld, head of PRC Studios.
- Generally considered to be the most prolific film director (as opposed to cartoon director) in the history of American cinema, with estimates of his output in the 300+ range over a career that began in the silent era and lasted until the late 1950s. He directed industrial promotional one-reelers, two-reel training films and comedy shorts, TV series episodes, full-length features, TV series episodes that were padded into full-length features, and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for. He used a plethora of different names in addition to his own, and newly discovered credits--often shorts from the mid to late 1920s--are being added to his filmography to this day.
- Secretary of Producers Releasing Corp., a "B" production company in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Co-founder (w/Bert Sternbach) / Secretary-Treasurer of S&N Productions, a "B" production company in the 1940s.
- Uncle of director Sigmund Neufeld Jr..
- Father of Jackie Newfield, Joel Newfield.
- He met his wife, Violet McComas, when she was a script supervisor on one of his films.
- Directed Buster Crabbe in 40 films.
- Of the first 11 features released by PRC, he directed ten.
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