John Heyman

John Heyman
Born	1933 Leipzig, Germany
Occupation	producer
Years active	1963–present
Spouse(s)	Norma Parnell Heyman (m. ?-?) Nizza (m. 1982)

John Heyman (born 1933 in Leipzig, Germany) 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 (eight Harry Potter films, Yes Man, Juice, I Am Legend, Meet the Millers, Gravity, Paddington, etc.); Lil, partner in a concierge firm; 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, an entrepreneur with interests in Third World countries. He was previously married to producer Norma Heyman.

His father, an economist and broadcaster who opposed Hitler, fled Germany on 30 January 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 naturalised British in the national interest. After the war he was the 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. 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.

Heyman was educated at Norfolk House in London, Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, and finally at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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