Raoul Lévy
Raoul Levy 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 – producer
- The Proud and the Beautiful – associate producer
- And God Created [Woman (1956 film)|And God Created Woman] – producer, writer
- The Night Heaven Fell – producer
- Love Is My Profession – producer
- Babette Goes to War – producer, story
- – producer
- Seven Days... Seven Nights – producer
- The [Truth (1960 film)|The Truth] – producer
- Marco the Magnificent – producer, writer, director
- Hail, Mafia – producer, writer, director
- The Defector – producer, writer, director
- Two or Three Things [I Know About Her] – producer