Simon Louvish
Auteur de Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
A propos de l'auteur
Simon Louvish is a biographer of comedians and author of satirical and outrageous fiction. He is a film screenwriter and teaches film at the London Film School.
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- Date de naissance
- 1947
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Israel
- Études
- London School of Film Technique
- Professions
- biographer
novelist - Organisations
- London Film School
- Courte biographie
- SIMON LOUVISH was born in Glasgow in 1947 and grew up in Israel. Later he decamped to the London School of Film Technique, where he became involved in the production of a series of independent documentary films. He also published a memoir of his Israeli days as well as a series of novels set mainly in the Middle East. Since 1979, he has also been teaching film at the London Film School and writing for various newspapers and magazines. Louvish is the author of definitive biographies of great clowns of screen comedy, including Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Story of W. C. Fields, Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers, and Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy. Further film biographies include Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennet, Mae West: It Ain't No Sin, and Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art. [from us.macmillan.com]
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- Œuvres
- 21
- Membres
- 829
- Popularité
- #30,792
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 69
- Langues
- 3