Raoul Lévy
French film producer, writer and director

Raoul Lévy

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French film producer, writer and director
Gender:
Male
Places:
Belgium
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Film directorScreenwriterFilm producerActor
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
14 April 1922(Antwerp, Arrondissement of Antwerp, Antwerp, Flemish Region)
Death:
31 December 1966(Saint-Tropez, canton of Saint-Tropez, arrondissement of Draguignan, Var)
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Raoul Levy (14 April 1922 – 31 December 1966) was a French film producer, writer and director best known for a series of movies he made starring Brigitte Bardot.

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 a female friend's house in St Tropez. The female friend was Isabelle Pons, who had recently ended a two-year affair with Levy.

Levy was survived by a wife and fifteen-year-old son.

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  • 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