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John Heyman is a Director and Producer born on 1933 at Leipzig (German)
John Heyman (born 1933 in Leipzig, Germany) is a British film and TV producer, who since the mid-1980s has mainly been involved in film financing. Married to his wife Nizza since 1982, this is his second marriage. He has five children, David (1961), producer of the successful Harry Potter film franchise, Lil (1965), Gabrielle (1971), Dahlia (1983) and Daniel (1987). His first wife was producer Norma Heyman.
His father, an economist and broadcaster who opposed Hitler, left Germany in January 1933, and seven months old, John and his mother arrived in England where his father had secured work as a journalist on the now defunct News Chronicle. During World War II, his father worked for the Ministry of Information, and after the war he became financial correspondent for The Economist, The Financial Times and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. John's mother, an avid suffragette, was both a teacher of Russian studies and a permanent student, collecting her seventh degree (in Economics) from the London School of Economics at the age of 70.
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His father, an economist and broadcaster who opposed Hitler, left Germany in January 1933, and seven months old, John and his mother arrived in England where his father had secured work as a journalist on the now defunct News Chronicle. During World War II, his father worked for the Ministry of Information, and after the war he became financial correspondent for The Economist, The Financial Times and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. John's mother, an avid suffragette, was both a teacher of Russian studies and a permanent student, collecting her seventh degree (in Economics) from the London School of Economics at the age of 70.
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Jesus (1979)
, 1h55Directed by John Heyman, Peter Sykes, John Krish
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Brian Deacon, Yosef Shiloach, Alexander Scourby, Richard Kiley, Eli Danker, Mosko Alkalai
Rating71%
La vie de Jésus Christ en suivant principalement l'évangile de Luc de la Bible.
Privilege (1967)
, 1h43Directed by Peter Watkins, Paul Jones, Jeremy Child, John Heyman, Norman Bogner, Jean Shrimpton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future, Political films
Actors Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Jeremy Child, James Cossins, Arthur Pentelow, Doreen Mantle
Rating67%
The story is set in the then near-future of the 1970s and concerns a disillusioned pop singer, played by Paul Jones, who is manipulated by the church and state which seek to turn him into a messianic leader.
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Jesus (1979)
, 1h55Directed by John Heyman, Peter Sykes, John Krish
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Brian Deacon, Yosef Shiloach, Alexander Scourby, Richard Kiley, Eli Danker, Mosko Alkalai
Roles Producer
Rating71%
La vie de Jésus Christ en suivant principalement l'évangile de Luc de la Bible.
Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973)
, 3hDirected by Waris Hussein
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Carrie Nye, Barry Foster, Rosalyn Landor, Gabriele Ferzetti
Roles Executive producer
Rating51%
The Go-Between (1971)
, 1h58Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Dominic Guard, Michael Redgrave
Roles Producer
Rating71%
The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is invited by a school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at a Norfolk country house occupied by his family. While Leo is there, Marcus is taken sick, and Leo finds himself becoming a messenger (go-between) carrying messages between Marcus's older sister, Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and a farmer neighbour, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates) with whom she is secretly in love. However, her parents want her to become engaged to the owner of the house and estate, Hugh, Viscount Trimingham (played by Edward Fox). A heatwave leads to a thunderstorm, which coincides with Leo's birthday party and the climax of the film, when Marion's mother and Leo find Marion and Burgess making love in an outbuilding. This event has a long-lasting impact on Leo, and Burgess shoots himself with his own gun in his farmhouse kitchen.
Twinky (1970)
, 1h38Directed by Richard Donner
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Orson Bean, Honor Blackman
Roles Executive producer
Rating53%
A 38-year-old writer of pornographic novels Scott (Charles Bronson) meets and falls in love with a sixteen-year-old school girl (Susan George) whilst living in London.
Bloomfield (1970)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Harris, Uri Zohar
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Association football films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Harris, Romy Schneider, Maurice Kaufmann, Yossi Yadin, David Heyman, Mosko Alkalai
Roles Producer
Rating52%
Lorsqu'un footballeur sur le déclin se voit proposer un pot-de-vin pour truquer un match, son fan dévoué de 12 ans est déterminé à le remettre sur le droit chemin.
Boom! (1968)
, 1h53Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Joanna Shimkus, Noël Coward, Michael Dunn, Romolo Valli
Roles Producer
Rating55%
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth (Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "Angelo Del Morte" (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be "The Angel of Death".
Privilege (1967)
, 1h43Directed by Peter Watkins, Paul Jones, Jeremy Child, John Heyman, Norman Bogner, Jean Shrimpton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future, Political films
Actors Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Jeremy Child, James Cossins, Arthur Pentelow, Doreen Mantle
Roles Producer
Rating67%
The story is set in the then near-future of the 1970s and concerns a disillusioned pop singer, played by Paul Jones, who is manipulated by the church and state which seek to turn him into a messianic leader.