Daniel Toscan du Plantier
French actor and Producer
He was born April 7, 1941
Place: Chambéry
Former wives: Marie Christine Barrault, Francesca Comencini, Sophie Bouniol. He was also the companion of Isabella Rossellini, Isabelle Huppert and Ann-Gisel Glass
He died of a heart attack in Berlin , at the age of 61.
Daniel Toscan du Plantier was the president of the Film Academy and of the cinema academy of Toulouse as well as of UNIFRANCE.
He was one of the founders of the festival of film of Marrakech.
He was the ambassador and tireless artisan of French movies, a lover of the seventh art and of music. (Pioneer of the movies he participated in operas such as Mr. Giovanni, Boris Godounov, Carmen, the Bohême, the Rough one, Parsifal).
Daniel Toscan du Plantier travelled frequently throughout the world as the president of Unifrance, an agency responsible for the promotion of the French movies abroad. He organized festivals in countries such as the United States , Japan and Mexico .
1941 in Chambéry, Toscan du Plantier obtained a diploma of the Institute of Political Sciences and he later debuted in the publicity and directed for ten years the Régie Presse.
1975 He became director of Gaumont. He produced films such as "Cousin Cousine" (Jean-Chat Tacchella), "Mr. Giovanni" (Losey), "A nous amours", "Police", "Sous le soleil de Satan", “Van Gogh" of Pialat, "la cite des femmes" (Fellini).
1980 He won a Palm d’Or for “Sous le Soleil de Satan” and worked with actors like Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Marie-Christine Barrault
1983 He produced “Mr. Giovanni” in Monte Carlo
1985, Toscan du Plantier was named director of Erato Disques and of his subsidiary Euripide Productions.
1996 Décembre: His 38 year old wife Sophie Bouniol Toscan was murdered in Ireland , a hundred meters away from their house in Cork county, in tragic situations that have not been elucidated.
1998 Daniel Toscan du Plantier married his assistant Melita Nicolitch
2003 February 11, Daniel Toscan du Plantier died as a consequence of a heart attack, while he was at the Berlin Film Festival.
Filmography
2002 Le Grand appartement
de Pascal Thomas
2001 Karmen Geï (Karmen)
de Joseph Gaï Ramaka
2000 Tosca
de Benoît Jacquot
2000 Mercredi folle journée
de Pascal Thomas
1999 Les Savates du bon Dieu
de Jean-Claude Brisseau
1998 La Dilettante
de Pascal Thomas
1996 Le Comédien
de Christian de Chalonge
1997 La Femme de chambre du Titanic
(La Camarera del Titanic )
de José Juan Bigas Luna
1996 Quadrille
de Valérie Lemercier
1995 Désiré
de Bernard Murat
1995 Tous les jours dimanche
(Todos los días es domingo.)
de Jean-Charles Tacchella
1994 Grosse Fatigue
(Mala fama)
de Michel Blanc
1991 Au pays des Juliets
de Mehdi Charef
1987 Sous le soleil de Satan
de Maurice Pialat