Dan Sonney
American film director
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Dan Sonney (23 January 1915 – 3 March 2002) was a producer and distributor of exploitation films. He was the son of Louis Sonney, who founded Sonney Amusements, the husband of Margaret Sonney, and a long-term business partner of David F. Friedman. He was, for a time, the owner of the mummified corpse of the American outlaw Elmer McCurdy.
In 2001 he co-starred in the documentary Mau Mau Sex Sex along with Friedman.
His father, Louis, was a coal miner-turned-lawman who arrested notorious bank robber Roy Gardner.[1]
