Education and Early Career
Heyman was educated at Norfolk House in London, Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, and finally at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
After two years in the National Service, Heyman returned to Oxford to read law. During a summer vacation, he obtained free tickets to a Radio Luxembourg show. Having been chosen as a contestant he won £93, more money that he thought existed in the world, and he returned to Oxford as a question writer for the show Double Your Money which would run for thirteen years on the new Independent Television Network in England, to whom he also sold a number of television concepts he had written. In 1955, Heyman started full-time work in the entertainment industry and by the age of 22 had become Head of Public Relations at Associated Television, one of the two founder companies of the ITV. By then he was already working on five television programs, three of which were rated among ITV's top ten.
In 1959, Heyman formed The International Artists Agency, which handled, among others, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, Trevor Howard, Shirley Bassey and Burt Bacharach. In 1961 the agency formed the subsidiary World Film Sales, the first company to pre-sell and license pictures on a territory-by-territory basis. In 1973, World Film Sales was sold to ITC.
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