Hilary Dwyer Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Hilary Dwyer (born 6 May 1945, Liverpool) is a former actress, businessperson and film producer. Dwyer is the daughter of an Orthopaedic Surgeon. As a youth, she practiced ballet and became a talented pianist. Dwyer trained in repertory theatres and appeared on stage at the Bristol Old Vic. Dwyer is best known for appearing in several horror films distributed by American International Pictures in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most notably Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), starring Vincent Price. She also appeared in The Oblong Box (1969) and Cry of the Banshee (1970), both... MORE

Hilary Dwyer (born 6 May 1945, Liverpool) is a former actress, businessperson and film producer. Dwyer is the daughter of an Orthopaedic Surgeon. As a youth, she practiced ballet and became a talented pianist. Dwyer trained in repertory theatres and appeared on stage at the Bristol Old Vic. Dwyer is best known for appearing in several horror films distributed by American International Pictures in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most notably Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), starring Vincent Price. She also appeared in The Oblong Box (1969) and Cry of the Banshee (1970), both again featuring Price, as well as Robert Fuest's Wuthering Heights (1970). Banshee was her final feature film appearance, and after that she worked only in television. Her many television roles included The Prisoner, The Avengers, Hadleigh and Van der Valk. Her last credit as an actress was in 1976, in a small part in an episode of Space: 1999. In 1973, Dwyer gave up her acting career in order to set up the talent agency Duncan Heath Associates, with her then husband-to-be Duncan Heath, now the co-chairman of the Independent Talent Group Ltd. In a 2002 interview in the Financial Times, Heath said of LESS