British Actor Hilary Heath has dies due to complication from coronavirus. She was best known for her role on horror movie ‘Witchfinder General’. The news of her death was confirmed by her godson, Alex Williams, through Facebook. The actor was 74. He wrote:
“We lost my wonderful Godmother Hilary Heath to Covid-19 last week. Hilary had many careers, starting out as a screen and stage actress in the 1960s and 1970s, and then re-inventing herself as a producer in the 1990s, making films like Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman) and An Awfully Big Adventure (Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman). Her most remarkable re-invention came in her mid-60s, when she won a master’s degree from Oxford in psychology and became an addiction counsellor, specialising in CBT. She worked at clinics all over the world, often for free, often with very deprived and distressed individuals, and she regarded this as her most valuable work by far. She was a force of nature, and I can’t bear it that she is no longer with us.”
Hilary Heath was born on May 6, 1945 in Liverpool, England. She worked in several TV series including The Avengers before making her big-screen debut as Sara Lowes in Witchfinder General (1968). A string of films followed including The Body Stealers (1969), Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oblong Box (1969) and Cry of the Banshee (1970).
Hilary Heath made her last onscreen appearance in a 1976 episode of Space: 1999.
Her producing credits included the 1986 telefilm The Worst Witch; Criminal Law (1988); and TV adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Frenchman’s Creek and Tennessee Williams’ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone in 1997, ’98 and ’03, respectively.
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