Daniel Toscan du Plantier

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1941-04-07

Deathday 2003-02-11 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Chambéry, Savoie, France

Daniel Toscan du Plantier

Biography

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. Toscan du Plantier was married four times and had three sons and two daughters. His first marriage was to French actress Marie-Christine Barrault, with whom he had one son and one daughter. His second marriage was with Italian film director and producer Francesca Comencini, with whom he had one son. His third wife was Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 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. Source: Article "Daniel Toscan du Plantier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Producer

2000
Bellyful

as Producer

1998
L'impromptu de Versailles

as Executive Producer

1998
1997
The Hips of J.W.

as Producer

1996
Bambola

as Producer

1995
Seven Sundays

as Producer

1995
The Flood

as Producer

1995
Madame Butterfly

as Producer

1993
The Last Writer

as Producer

1991
The Stranger

as Executive Producer

1991
The Stranger

as Producer

1991
Van Gogh

as Producer

1990
1990
Korczak

as Producer

1989
Boris Godounov

as Executive Producer

1988
The Gauls

as Producer

1988
La Bohème

as Producer

1988
La lumière du lac

as Executive Producer

1987
1987
Travelling avant

as Producer

1985
Police

as Executive Producer

1983
A Nos Amours

as Producer

1983
L'Argent

as Producer

1983
Nostalgia

as Producer

1982
1979
1977
The Lacemaker

as Producer

1977
1975
Cousin, Cousine

as Producer

Actor

2010
Toscan

as Self (archive footage)

2005
Les Vacances de Noël

as Daniel Toscan du Plantier (archive footage)

2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

as Self - Producteur

1999
One 4 All

as Self

1995
Les Miserables

as Le comte de Villeneuve

1995
One Hundred and One Nights

as The Second Speaker

1994
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

as Daniel Toscan du Plantier

1977
Spoiled Children

as Le député

1974
1971
Samedi soir

as Self

Crew

1988
La Bohème

as Presenter