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 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 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[]
- ^ "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, 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
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