by Sandra Brennan
biography
Writer/director Douglas Heyes has worked in both feature films and in television, but is best known for the latter. In film, he is best known as the director of the 1964 Ann-Margret vehicle Kitten with a Whip, and for the 1966 version of Beau Geste. In television, Heyes has directed some of the first Twilight Zone episodes, and has worked on such mini-series as The Captains and the Kings (1976), The French Atlantic Affair (1979) and helped develop the entire North & South miniseries in 1985. Heyes has also worked on television movies such as Drive Hard, Drive Fast (1969).
