Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
07.04.1941 - 11.02.2003 (61 years) (Chambéry, Savoie, France)
Daniel Toscan du Plantier (7 April 1941 – 11 February 2003) was a French film producer. Educated at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques he became advertising manager for the France Soir daily newspaper in 1966 and between 1975 and 1985 was director-general of the Gaumont Film Company, and president of Unifrance, an organisation for promoting French films, from 1988 until his death. He was married four times, first to French actress Marie-Christine Barrault, and had three sons and two daughters. His third wife was Sophie Toscan du Plantier, victim of a murder considered unsolved in Ireland, where it happened, and solved in France, where Ian Bailey was convicted in May 2019.