Biography
Robert Hakim (1907–1992) was an Egyptian-born film producer who worked primarily in France. With his brother Raymond Hakim, he co-founded Paris Film Production in 1934 after employment with Paramount. Early credits include Julien Duvivier’s Pépé le Moko (1937) and Jean Renoir’s La Bête Humaine (1938).
The brothers fled to the United States during the Second World War and co-produced Renoir’s The Southerner (1945). They returned to France in the early 1950s and produced further notable films, including Casque d’Or (1952), Purple Noon (1960), L’Eclisse (1962) and Belle de Jour (1967), often with directors such as Claude Chabrol, Michelangelo Antonioni and Luis Buñuel.
