Daniel Toscan de Plantier(7 April 1941 - 11 February 2003) was a French film producer. Educated at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques

Institut d'études politiques

Instituts d'études politiques , or IEPs, are nine publicly owned institutions of higher learning in France. They are located in Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg and Toulouse , and their vocation is the study and research of contemporary political science...

 he became advertising manager for the France Soir

France Soir

France Soir is a French daily newspaper that prospered during the 1950s and 1960s, but it has declined since then under various owners. It was re-launched as a populist tabloid in 2006.-History:...

 daily newspaper in 1966 and between 1975 and 1985 was director-general of the Gaumont Film Company

Gaumont Film Company

Gaumont Film Company is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont . Gaumont is the oldest continously operating film company in the world....

, and president of Unifrance

Unifrance

Unifrance is an organisation for promoting French films outside France. It is managed by the Centre National de la Cinématographie. It has several hundred members who include film makers, directors, screenwriters and agents....

, an organisation for promoting French films, from 1988 until his death.

He was married four times, and has three sons and two daughters. His third wife was Sophie Toscan du Plantier

Sophie Toscan du Plantier

Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a French film producer beaten to death outside her holiday home near Toormore, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland on the night of 22 December 1996. She was the wife of another film producer, Daniel Toscan du Plantier...

, victim of an as-yet unsolved murder.