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.
Biography
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
- Les Régates de San Francisco [fr] (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
References
- "LEVY, FRENCH FILM DIRECTOR, SHOOTS SELF". Chicago Tribune. 1 Jan 1967. p. b16.
- "Raoul Levy Finishes Life". The Sumter Daily Item. Jan 10, 1967.
- "TELL SPURNING OF FILM MAKER BEFORE SUICIDE". Chicago Tribune. 2 Jan 1967. p. d1.
- "Raoul Levy, Discoverer Of Bardot, Kills Himself". The Washington Post and Times-Herald. 2 Jan 1967. p. D7.
- "Raoul Levy, 44, A Film Producer, Dies of Rifle Wound". New York Times. 1 Jan 1967. p. 19.
External links
- Raoul Lévy at IMDb at IMDb