Raoul Levy (14 April 1922 – 31 December 1966) was a Belgian-born French film producer, writer and director best known for a series of movies he made starring Brigitte Bardot. He was born in Antwerp.
Death He committed suicide after losing most of his fortune making a film about the life of Marco Polo. He shot himself in the chest outside the front door of the St Tropez house of production assistant Isabelle Pons, who had recently ended a two-year affair with Levy.
Levy was survived by a wife and fifteen-year-old son.
Select credits Paris Vice Squad (1951) – producer The Proud and the Beautiful (1953) – associate producer And God Created Woman (1956) – producer, writer The Night Heaven Fell (1958) – producer Love Is My Profession (1958) – producer Babette Goes to War (1959) – producer, story (1960) – producer Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) – producer The Truth (1960) – producer Marco the Magnificent (1965) – producer, writer, director Hail, Mafia (1965) – producer, writer, director The Defector (1966) – producer, writer, director Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) – producer
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External links at IMDb