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Benn Wolfe Levy (7 Marzo 1900 – 7 December 1973) che a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and a successful playwright. He was educato at Repton School and University College, Oxford and served in uniforme in both World Wars. Before entering politics, Levy che a successful playwright who also wrote screenplays. The best known of his screenplays was written in collaboration with R. C. Sherriff for James Whale s macabre film horror The Old Dark House (1932) based on the novel immerso nelle tenebre (1927) by J. B. Priestley. Earlier he had been the dialogue writer for Blackmail (1929); directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it was the first British sound film. Levy directed one film, Lord Camber s Ladies (1932), which was the only film produced by alfred Hitchcock, which he did not himself direct. Levy che first elected at the 1945 general election, for the Eton and Slough circoscrizione, and stood down at the 1950 general election. Politically, Levy che on the left of the Labour Party and became an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). As a sympathiser with the Sionista movement, he, quindi, in contrapposizione Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin over Bevin s policies towards Palestine and Israel. As an MP, Levy made in unsuccessful effort to abolish teatrali 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-pornografia campaigner. He was married for more than 40 years to the American born screen and stage attrice Constance Cummings; they had one daughter and one son.