Simon Louvish (; born 6 April 1947,
Glasgow
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Scots-born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about ''Avram Blok'', a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses.
Louvish is a
visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the
London Film School
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Marx Brothers
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Groucho Marx
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Laurel and Hardy
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Mae West
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Mack Sennett
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Charlie Chaplin
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Louvish directed and produced such documentaries as ''End of the Dialogue, Apartheid in South Africa'', ''Greece of Christian Greeks – the Colonels' Regime'', and ''To Live in Freedom, the Conflict in Israel-Palestine''.
Publications
; The Avram Blok Saga
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**Also published (2008) as ''Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art''
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References
External links
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His homepagea review of ''Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art''
Macmillan Publishersa photograph of Louvish
1947 births
Living people
Israeli film producers
Israeli novelists
Israeli biographers
Writers from Glasgow
Scottish Jews
British emigrants to Israel
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