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 .
Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 5.
The Avram Blok Saga Louvish, Simon (1985). The Therapy of Avram Blok . 1 . Heinemann. ISBN 0434429708. —— (1988). City of Blok . 2 . Collins. —— (1991). The Last Trump of Avram Blok . 3 . Flamingo. ISBN 0006543405. —— (1997). The Days of Miracles and Wonders . 4 . ——. The Fundamental Blok . 5 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books. ——. The Chinese Smile . 6 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books. Fiction —— (1979). A Moment Of Silence . ISBN 0856161314. —— (1987). Death of Moishe-Ganef . Corgi. ISBN 0552992860. —— (1990). Your Monkey's Shmuck . Flamingo. ISBN 0006543464. —— (1992). Resurrections from the Dustbin of History . Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747511918. —— (1994). Resurrections . Da Capo Press. ISBN 1568580142. —— (1995). What's Up God?: A Romance of the Apocalypse . W&N. ISBN 057505994X. —— (1997). The Silencer . Interlink Books. ISBN 1566561167. —— (1999). The Cosmic Follies . Institute of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 1900300419. Non-fiction —— (1994). It's a Gift . BFI Publishing. ISBN 0851704727. —— (1997). The Man on the Flying Trapeze - the Life & Times of W C Fields . W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0393041271. —— (2003). KEYSTONE The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett . Faber & Faber. ISBN 057121276X. —— (2002). Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy . Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571215904. —— (2003). Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers . ISBN 0571193501. —— (2006). Mae West: It Ain't No Sin . Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571219497. —— (2007). Coffee With Groucho . Duncan Baird. ISBN 1844834697. —— (2007). Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf . Faber & Faber. ISBN 057122900X. Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art —— (2009). Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey . Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571237681. 
