Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameBenn Wolfe LEVY 6
BirthMar 1900
Death7 Dec 1974, England
FatherOctavius LEVY (1869-1949)
MotherHannah JOSEPH (1872-1940)
Spouses
Birth15 May 1910, Seattle, USA1378
Death23 Nov 2005, Oxfordshire, England1378
Birth15 May 1910, Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Death23 Nov 2005, England
Marriage1933
Children(Private)
Notes for Benn Wolfe LEVY
The London Gazette lists him as Benn Wolfe Levy, so presumably that is how he was styled and shows him as Acting Temporary Lieutenant Benn Wolfe Levy RNVR.

The entry for him in the National Dictionary of Biography shows him as 1900-1973. Also - 'playwright and director; educated at Repton and University College, Oxford, cadet in RAF, 1918; entered publishing, 1923, and became managing director of Jarrolds; his comedy, This Woman Business, produced in London (1925) and New York (1926); had number of plays produced between 1928 and 1939, directed Springtime for Henry, Hollywood holiday, and his adaptation of Madame Bovary; worked as writer of dialogue for films, including Blackmail (1929), the first 'talkie' by (Sir) Alfred Hitchcock; joined Royal Navy, 1939, wounded and appointed MBE, 1944; Labour MP for Eton and Slough, 1945-50; close friend of Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee (Countess Lee of Ashridge); directed his plays Clutterbuck (1946) and Return to Tyassi (1950); member of executive committee, Arts Council, 1953-61; wrote for New Statesman and Tribune; active campaigner for unilateral nuclear disarmament; published Britain and the Bomb, the Fallacy of Nuclear Defence (1959).'

Date of death to be checked. His archives are in the University of Sussex. They can be accessed at: www.sussex.ac.uk/library/manuscript/lists/levylst.shtml.
Notes for Benn Wolfe LEVY
Became a well known member of Parliament in London, his wife Constancewas an actor
Last Modified 13 Jan 2013Created 21 Mar 2024 by Jim Falk