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.
Co-financed more than 100 films, in the process raising in excess of $4 billion .