John Heyman

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), 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...