Denis Héroux was a French-Canadian producer, director and writer best known for producing the Oscar-nominated film Atlantic City. The 1980 movie, directed by Louis Malle, starred Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon, and followed the story of a gangster and his partner in crime, the estranged wife of a pot dealer. The film earned a total of five Academy Award nominations, including for best picture.

Héroux also worked in television, including production work on the animated children’s series Mask, Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, as well as the live-action series Bordertown and Counterstrike. He also contributed to the television movies Lousiana, starring Margot Kidder; The Park Is Mine, with Tommy Lee Jones; God Bless the Child, with Mare Winningham and Sword of Gideon.

Additionally, Héroux worked on the films The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, with Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen; Blood Relatives, with Donald Sutherland; Us Two, with Catherine Deneuve; The Blood of Others, with Foster and The Bay Boy, with Kiefer Sutherland.

Héroux began his career as a film director in the 1960s, before he began working consistently as a producer in the early 1970s.

He died December 10, 2015, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was 75.