Career
During the mid-1930s he was brought out to Australia by director Ken G. Hall, to write movies and train Australian screenwriters for Cinesound Productions. "He didn"t know all that much as it turned out." Seward ended up writing two films for Cinesound, and, as well as adapting Thoroughbred into a novel. He soon returned to Hollywood, with Hall claiming the writer "had not been a bell-ringing success".
Hall thought Seward may have been responsible for plagiarising the end of Thoroughbred from the Frank Capra movie, Broadway Bill (1934).
Seward later worked for Screen Gems and wrote a number of scripts for The Bowery Boys.