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. 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.

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