In 1959, Heyman set up The International Artists Agency, his clients including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, Trevor Howard, Shirley Bassey and Burt Bacharach.
By the age of 22, he was Head of Public Relations at Associated Television.
Father of David Heyman, producer of the Harry Potter films.
Co-founded the company Island World in 1990, sold four years later to Polygram.
Educated at Norfolk House, London, Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire, and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
[on the failure of Joseph Losey's film, "Secret Ceremony" (1968)]: It should have been the story of two people who love and trust each other until one leans on the other a little bit more than she should. Unfortunately, the kind of sympathy Losey shows for people in real life was absent from the relationship, which is what I think made it unacceptable.