Simon Louvish

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.

[1] 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.

[2] 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.