death of his good friend producer Hilary Heath ged 74 after battle with coronavirus.....
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"Suave leading man Charles Dance has been comforting an old friend, Hilary Heath, after she was the victim of a terrifying attack at her £1million home in Barbados.
The former actress - ex-wife of Britain's most powerful showbusiness agent, Duncan Heath - was forced to jump from her bedroom window on to rocks on a beach to escape from a knife-wielding intruder. A close friend says: 'Hilary was on her own in the house. She managed to get out through her window and had to jump."
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"She then managed to call for help from her neighbours. It's a two-storey house with a basement and, of course, she suffered quite bad injuries. It was horrific for her. She has been fantastically brave.'
Hilary, 58, sustained a broken ankle, and injuries to her legs and back in the jump. She was in hospital for nine days and her children, Laura, 29, a vet, and Daniel, 20, a student at university in Boston, and Dance, have been helping her recuperate.
In February, Dance was seen paddling in the seas in Barbados with bikini-clad Hilary - who was mistakenly identified by some as his new lover."
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London. July 10, 2003 Took this evening off for a party at Hilary Heath's (producer, friend, and the ex-wife of Duncan Heath, head of my London agent ICM). As ever, a good crowd of the usual suspects were there, all of whom seemed to know more about the preparations for my film than I did. Alan Rickman sidled up to me at one point and in that languid drawl of his said, 'Charles, I hear you're going to direct a film.'
'I'm trying to, Alan,' I replied.
'Let me give you a piece of advice.' I hadn't asked for any, but let him proffer it nevertheless: 'Have a party halfway through the shoot. It's good for company morale.' There was I thinking I was about to hear something profoundly clarifying about the relative merits of geared heads or his preference for a particular size of lens. Bless him. Of course I'll have a party.
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in 2005
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“One of the things that annoyed Hilary most about her accident was that she couldn’t wear those crazily high heels any more,” said her friend, the actor Charles Dance. “She had such fabulous legs.”
Charles Dance reads the poem Etiquette by W S Gilbert for #BrainAppealStoryTime
1985
interview circa 2004
Celia Imrie is already preparing a new movie for our viewing pleasure. The big screen adaptation of Alice Thomas Ellis' novel THE INN AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD will see her on film together with another famous thespian Charles Dance alongside Peter Firth, Stephen Mangan and Freddie Fox. Directed and written by Charles Dance himself, the story of the award winning book revolves around five people who respond to an advert to escape Christmas and all its enforced jollity in London and retreat to an Inn off the West coast of Scotland. This will be the first time Dance is directing after 15 years.
About this movie in the past :
The first projects include a feature version of Alice Thomas Ellis’s novel The Inn at the Edge of the World, which is being co-executive produced by Charles Dance and is aiming for a late 2014 shoot..."
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Charles Dance is set to direct The Inn At The Edge Of The World, in which he will also star...
The film will tell the story of a group of unrelated people who share a common desire to escape the enforced jollity of Christmas and venture to a remote Scottish island where their lives are changed forever. Joanna Lumley, Mark Williams, Gregor Fisher and Freddie Fox are also in the cast. Dance adapted the screenplay from Alice Thomas-Ellis’ novel of the same name....
...The project was previously announced in 2009 but due to scheduling issues has been on ice.
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Andrew Brown has joined Parkland Pictures as head of sales
Among the titles Brown is selling at AFM is Charles Dance’s The Inn At The Edge Of The World, a film which he, as executive producer, brought to Parkland Entertainment
“Charles Dance is the perfect director for The Inn At The Edge Of The World and he is opening his little black book to get some nice names in there,” he added of the production, which will shoot early next year.
