Career
He was the nephew of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio chief Nicholas Schenck and United Artists studio boss Joseph M. Schenck. Nicholas Nayfack died of a heart attack at the age of forty-eight on March 31, 1958. After leaving Fox, he became the head of the business affairs office for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1939 through 1949.
In 1949, Nayfack became a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer until his death in 1958.