Raoul Lévy
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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.[1][2] The female friend was Isabelle Pons, who had recently ended a two-year affair with Levy.[3][4]
Levy was survived by a wife and fifteen-year-old son.[5]
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
- 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
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External links
- Raoul Lévy at the Internet Movie Database at IMDB