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Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer
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Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer

Hilary Dwyer aka Hilary Heath ‑ an English actress, businessperson, and film producer – passed  away after contracting Covid-19 on 30 March 2020.   She was best known for her acting roles in films such as Witchfinder General (1968) and Wuthering Heights (1970). She also performed on the London stage.   In 1974, she married the talent agent Duncan Heath, with whom she had two children, and helped to found Duncan Heath Associates, which was later bought by ICM Partners. They divorced in 1989. Later in her career, under her married name, "Hilary Heath", she produced the feature film An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), as well as TV remakes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1997) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)....