Raoul Levy (April 14, 1922 – Dec 31, 1966) was a Belgian-born French film producer, writer and director best known for a series of movies he made starring Brigitte Bardot.
He was born in Antwerp.
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 production assistant 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
