Raoul Lévy

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
• Les Régates de San Francisco (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

1. "LEVY, FRENCH FILM DIRECTOR, SHOOTS SELF". Chicago Tribune. 1 Jan 1967. p. b16.
2. "Raoul Levy Finishes Life". The Sumter Daily Item. Jan 10, 1967.
3. "TELL SPURNING OF FILM MAKER BEFORE SUICIDE". Chicago Tribune. 2 Jan 1967. p. d1.
4. "Raoul Levy, Discoverer Of Bardot, Kills Himself". The Washington Post, Times Herald. 2 Jan 1967. p. D7.
5. "Raoul Levy, 44, A Film Producer, Dies of Rifle Wound". New York Times. 1 Jan 1967. p. 19.

External links

• Raoul Lévy at the Internet Movie Database at IMDB