Raoul Lévy

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Birth Date:
14.04.1922
Death date:
31.12.1966
Length of life:
44
Days since birth:
37276
Years since birth:
102
Days since death:
20944
Years since death:
57
Categories:
Film director, Producer, Related to Latvia, Suicide, Writer
Nationality:
 french
Cemetery:
Set cemetery

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 the St Tropez house of 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 (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

Source: wikipedia.org

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