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