He married French actress
Françoise Arnoul in 1956. They divorced in 1964. On 18 October 1973, his second wife Danielle Cravenne was shot dead by a
police sniper at
Marignane airport in Marseille. Danielle, who was mentally unstable, had tried to to protest against the release of the film
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob which was being promoted by Cravenne and which she considered "anti-Palestinian", especially in the midst of the
Yom Kippur War. ==Notes==