The actor Pat Heywood, who has died aged 92, was a stalwart of repertory theatres over several decades whose credits also included four of Franco Zeffirelli’s movies and the 1954 world premiere, at the Bristol Old Vic, of the revue-style musical Salad Days, by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds.
She appeared in Richard Fleischer’s brilliantly acted film 10 Rillington Place (1971), as the wife of the murderer John Christie (one of Richard Attenborough’s outstanding screen performances), with John Hurt as Timothy Evans, who was wrongly convicted and hanged for the murders Christie had committed.
