Raymond Hakim

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Raymond Hakim (born August 23, 1909 in Alexandria , Egypt , † August 14, 1980 in Deauville , France ) was a French film producer of Egyptian descent .

Life

Burial place of Robert and Raymond Hakim in the Père-Lachaise cemetery .

Raymond Hakim and his two-year-older brother Robert Hakim began his film career at the end of the 1920s as an employee of the Cairo branch of Paramount film production and later worked for the same company in Joinville near Paris. In 1934 the Hakim brothers set up their own company Paris Films Productions. They made some famous films before World War II , directed by such directors as Julien Duvivier and Jean Renoir .

As a result of the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht , the Hakim brothers fled to the United States. It was only after several years of inactivity as producers that they were able to continue their work as a film maker in Hollywood towards the end of the war in 1945. In 1950/51 Raymond and Robert Hakim returned to France. In the meantime, his third brother, André Hakim, had also started working there as a film producer. With well-known directors such as Claude Chabrol , Michelangelo Antonioni and Luis Buñuel , both artistically demanding and commercially successful productions were created in the 1950s and 1960s, in which top stars such as Gérard Philipe , Alain Delon , Jeanne Moreau , Jean-Paul Belmondo , Anthony Quinn and Catherine Deneuve participated. Raymond Hakim died as the first of the three producer brothers.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

literature

  • Jean-Loup Passek: Dictionnaire du cinema, Paris 1992, p. 311
  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 579
  • Liz-Anne Bawden: The Oxford Companion to Film, Oxford 1976, p. 316
  • Variety, September 3, 1980 (obituary)

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 484.
personal data
SURNAME Hakim, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film producer of Egyptian descent
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1980
Place of death Deauville , France