Whether you embraced the surname Heath or Dwyer, you were cute as a button, with acting finesse to match, especially when crossed with the masterful Vincent Price in three classic, Poe-ish pictures: "The Witchfinder General" (aka "The Conqueror Worm"), "Cry of the Banshee" and "The Oblong Box" (costarring the cunning Christopher Lee).
On the horror/science-fiction front, you entered "The Body Stealers", while stroking romance in "Wuthering Heights '70" and exciting espionage for "The File of the Golden Goose". You even became an effective producer in later years, prompting that prestigious stretch with the popular "An Awfully Big Adventure".
Though the big screen proved good to you, you also gained fame through your television appearances on "The Prisoner"; "The Avengers"; "The Challengers"; "Space: 1999"; "Villains"; "Z Cars"; "Arthur of the Britons"; "United!"; "Hadleigh"; and "Callan".
Your beauty could melt anyone's heart and your sprite personality couldn't help but entrance. You're an angel now among the angels, Ms. Heath: a beacon whose quality contributions will never douse.
Many know you from such melodramatic and breezy jaunts as "Fawlty Towers"; "The Doctors"; "The Bill"; and "Lovejoy"; and in such films as "There's a Girl in My Soup"; "Crooks and Coronets"; "The Jokers"; "The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones"; "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"; and "Parting Shots".
Others know you from your appearances in the soap operas "Downton Abbey" and "EastEnders".
Adventure fans know you from "Penny Gold"; "We Still Killl the Old Way"; "Mosquito Squadron"; "Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express"; and the Bondian tribute, "No 1 of the Secret Service" (aka, "Her Majesty's Top Gun").
However, to horror fans you gained your greatest glory with performances in "The Witchfinder General" (aka "The Conqueror Worm"); "Vampira" (aka "Old Dracula"); the dark, futuristic "Narcopolis"; and that mod, irreverent, cult classic, "Psychomania" (aka "The Death Wheelers").
You were suave, sophisticated, funny and whenever the chance arose, downright mean. For all of your varied efforts, you'll continue to stand supreme: an actor to be remembered, a gentleman to be revered.
