Known for Production
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. 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. Source: Article "Raoul Lévy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born
April 14, 1922
Died
December 31, 1966 (age 44)
Birthplace
Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
Filmography
20 films, 2 shows


The Defector
1966 · 1h 40m
country: France
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.


Hail! Mafia
1965 · 1h 30m
country: France
A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.


Marco the Magnificent
1965 · 1h 52m
country: Egypt
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.