John Heyman

Who is John Heyman?

John Heyman is a British film and TV producer also involved in television production, consulting and film financing. Married to his wife Nizza since 1982, this is his second marriage. He has five children, David, a film producer, Lil, Gabrielle, an executive at Zynga, Dahlia, who won the screen-writing Golden Globe in Italy for her first film and is a Vice President at World Film Group, and Daniel. He was previously married to producer Norma Heyman.

His father, an economist and broadcaster who opposed Hitler, fled Germany on January 30, 1933. The seven-month-old John and his mother joined him that November in London, 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 was naturalized British in the national interest. After the war he became financial correspondent for The Economist, The Times of London and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He died at his typewriter putting the final 'full stop' on a leader column for the Times, which was published two days after his death.