André Hakim

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André Nessim Hakim (born December 5, 1915 in Alexandria , Egypt , † October 19, 1980 in Los Angeles , California ) was an Egyptian-born, French-American film producer .

Life

André Hakim, the youngest of the three film-producing Hakim brothers, was overshadowed by Robert and Raymond Hakim all his life . Due to his young age, he did not work as a producer before 1939, but went through several assistants in the brothers' company. As a result of the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht , all three Hakim brothers fled to the United States , where André initially could not gain a foothold in the film business.

While Robert and Raymod stayed in Hollywood for a few years, André returned to Paris shortly after the end of the war and was able to make his first film there. While Robert and Raymond also returned to France at the beginning of the 1950s, André Hakim moved again to the United States. There he married one of the two daughters of the American film mogul Darryl F. Zanuck and began producing films for the Twentieth Century Fox under his patronage . After only a few years, André Hakim returned to France a second time and continued there and for a short time in Great Britain his career, which included only a few movies and a television series. After the failed marriage with Susan Marie Zanuck (1967) and the no less unsuccessful career as a producer, Hakim, finally also a US citizen, finally settled in California, where he died a few months after his brother Raymond.

Filmography

  • 1947: L'éventail
  • 1951: Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
  • 1952: Five Pearls (O. Henry's Full House)
  • 1953: The New Sheriff (Powder River)
  • 1955: Paris Precinct (TV series)
  • 1956: The Man Who Never Was (The Man Who Never Was)
  • 1957: Flotsam of Passion (Sea Wife)
  • 1963: The easy money of love (La bonne soupe)
  • 1964: Monsieur cheats (Patate)
  • 1969: Hello - Goodbye
  • 1973: La grabuge (anonymous)

Web links

literature

  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 579
personal data
SURNAME Hakim, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hakim, André Nessim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian-French-American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1980
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States