Benn W. Levy

Benn Wolfe Levy (7 de Marzo De 1900 – 7 de Diciembre de 1973) por lo que a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, a successful and playwright. He was educated at Repton School and University College, universidad de Oxford and servido en uniforme en ambas guerras mundiales. Before entering politics, Levy lo que a successful playwright who also wrote screenplays. The best known of his screenplays lo written in collaboration with R. C. Sherriff for James Whale's macabre cine de horror The Old Dark House (1932) based on the novel de Ignorantes (1927) by J. B. Priestley. Earlier he had been the dialogue writer for Blackmail (1929); dirigida por Alfred Hitchcock, it was the first sonido Británico de la película. Levy dirigida one película, Lord Camber's Ladies (1932), which was the only película produced by Hitchcock which he did not himself direct. Levy lo first at the elected de 1945, el general election, for the Eton and Slough unidad constitutiva, and stood hacia fuera de down at the 1950 general de elecciones. Politically, Levy lo on the left of the Labour Party and became an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). As a sympathiser with the Sionista movimiento, así que he opposed Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin over Bevin's policies towards Palestine and Israel. As de MP, Levy made a unsuccessful effort to abolish teatral censorship in Britain and towards the end of his life, he was the principal author of a report opposing the arguments for censorship made by Lord Longford, the anti-pornografía infantil campaigner. He was married for more than 40 years to the American born screen and stage actriz Constance Cummings; they had one daughter and one son.