Benn W. Levy - Фильмы

Бенн Вулф Леви (7 March 1900 – 7 декабря 1973) was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and a successful playwright. He was educated at Repton School and University College, Oxford and served in uniform in both World Wars. Before entering politics, Levy was a successful playwright who also wrote screenplays. The best known of his screenplays was written in collaboration with R. C. Evolution for James Кита фильм ужасов macabre The Old Dark House (1932) based on the novel Benighted (1927) by J. B. Пристли. He had been Earlier the dialogue writer for Blackmail (1929); directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it was the first British sound film. Леви one film directed, лорд Camber's Ladies (1932), which was the only film produced by Hitchcock which he himself did not direct. Levy was first elected at the 1945 general election, for the Eton и СЛАУ constituency, and stood down at the 1950 general election. Politically, Levy was on the left of the Labour Party and became an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). As a sympathiser with the Zionist movement, he also против которой выступил Foreign Secretary Эрнест Бевин over Bevin's policies towards Палестины и Израиля. As an MP, Леви made an effort to unsuccessful abolish theatrical censorship in Britain, and towards the end of his life, he was the principal author a report of the opposing arguments for censorship made by Lord Longford, the anti-порнографии campaigner. He was married for more than 40 years to the American-born screen and stage actress Constance Cummings; they had one and one daughter son.