Simon Louvish (; born 6 April 1947, Glasgow, Scotland) is a 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. He has written books on W. C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy, Mae West, Cecil B. DeMille, Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey, By Simon Louvish. The Independent.
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
Fiction
Non-fiction
Also published (2008) as Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
References
External links
His homepage New York Times a review of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art Macmillan Publishers a photograph of Louvish