Robert Levy (producer)

Robert Levy (1888–1959) was an English-born theatre manager and film producer in the United States. Levy was the general manager of the Lafayette Players, overseeing the production of more than one hundred stage plays featuring black actors in Harlem. He founded REOL Productions, and was one of the earliest producers of race films, overseeing the production of twelve silent films featuring all-black casts. His specialized in "high class" films with well known actors and adaptations of works by African American writers such as Paul Laurence Dunbar.