Daniel Toscan du Plantier (7 April 1941 – 11 February 2003) was a French
film producer
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. Educated at the
Institut d'Etudes Politiques
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he became advertising manager for the ''
France Soir
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'' daily newspaper in 1966 and between 1975 and 1985 was director-general of the
Gaumont Film Company
The Gaumont Film Company (, ), often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in ...
, and president of
Unifrance, an organisation for promoting French films, from 1988 until his death.
Personal life
Toscan du Plantier was married four times and had three sons and two daughters.
His first marriage was to French actress
Marie-Christine Barrault
Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in '' Cousin Cousine'' (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, ti ...
, with whom he had one son and one daughter. His second marriage was with Italian film director and producer
Francesca Comencini
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, with whom he had one son. His third wife was
Sophie Toscan du Plantier
Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a 39-year-old French woman, was killed outside her holiday home near Toormore, Goleen, County Cork, Ireland, on the night of 23 December 1996.
British journalist Ian Bailey, who lived near Toscan du Plantier's home i ...
, who was murdered in 1996 (the crime is considered unsolved in Ireland, where it happened, and solved in France, where Ian Bailey was convicted in May 2019).
His fourth marriage was with Melita Nikolic in 1998, with whom he had one son and one daughter.
Filmography
As producer
References
External links
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1941 births
2003 deaths
French film producers
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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