Plato Alexander Skouras, age 74, died at his home in Brinkley, Arkansas on Sunday, July 4, 2004. He was born in New York City on March 7, 1930 to the late Spyros P. Skouras and the late Sarah K. Bruiglia Skouras of Rye, New York.

Plato attended the Iona School in New Rochelle, New York, the Harvey School in Katonah, New York, and the prestigious Taft Prep School in Watertown, Connecticut to prepare for Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He was a 1952 graduate from Yale with a major in Drama. While at Yale, Plato was on the rowing team, the wrestling team, served as co-captain of the Pierson College football team and was accepted into Berzelius and the St. Elmo Society. He was an avid yachtsman and entered and won many races on the east coast and in California.

After college he was employed in his family's chain of movie theaters, Skouras Theatres, located in and around New York City. He began investing in the movie industry and owned part of such films as "A Walk on the Wild Side", "The Man Who Never Was", "Ruby Gentry", "A Kiss Before Dying" and"We'll Bury You" a history of communism which was recognized in the halls of Congress.

Plato moved to Beverly Hills, California and became a production assistant with 20th Century Fox and an assistant to the chief of production, Darryl F. Zanuck. He worked on such movies as "The Tall Men" starring Clark Gable and Jane Russell, "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" starring Jane Russell and "The House of Bamboo" starring Robert Ryan and Robert Stack.

Later he formed an independent film company and traveled around the world producing such pictures as "Francis of Assisi," which starred Brad Dilman and Dolores Hart, "Sierra Baron" with Brian Keith, "Apache Warrior", "Under Fire", and "Villa". He also owned an insurance agency in Los Angeles and served on the Board of Directors of the Skouras Lines: World Wide Tankers, Prudential Lines and Admiralty Enterprises, which were his family’s steamship companies – now out of service.

. After moving to Brinkley, he sold his rights to several scripts that he had developed. The last one was "Embryo" which was one of Rock Hudson's last movies. At the time of his death he was working on a biography of his father, Spyros P. Skouras, a Greek immigrant who rose to become the head of 20th Century Fox and was instrumental in the development of Cinemascope as well as head of the Greek War Relief Fund during World War II. Plato loved his family and friends and will be missed by each of them.

Plato is survived by his wife, Barbara
Four sons: Plato A. Skouras and his wife Sandra, of Moorpark, CA
Spyros A. Skouras of Brentwood, CA
Alexander S. Skouras of Brinkley, AR
Christopher P. Skouras of Vilonia, AR
Four grandchildren: Mary, Samantha, Alexandria and Landon
One brother: Spyros S. Skouras and his wife Barbara of Greenwich, CT
One sister: Daphne Root of Bedford, NY And a host of nieces, nephews other relatives and friends.