André and his brothers were in the film industry from the time they were teenagers. His brothers Raymond and Robert Hakim worked at Paramount Pictures before founding their own production company in France.
He was married to Susan Marie Zanuck, one of Darryl F. Zanuck's two daughters. The couple divorced in 1967, after which Zanuck married Pierre-Francois Savineau.
[interviewer, possibly Harry Allen] What are you giving them back? [Rakim] Umm, I think what I'm givin them back man is umm... what they been waitin for yaknahmean? Umm... SKILLS