Hersha Parady was in Hollywood as an actress and also as a wife of a filmmaker, John Peverall. She was married to her husband in 1994 when she was 49 and he was 63. Despite the age difference, they were together for a while and had a child before John’s demise in 2009.
Hersha Parady’s husband was an Oscar-award-winning British film producer and director. He was known for The Man Who Fell on Earth, The Deer Hunter, Arthur of the Britons, and The Deer Hunter.
All About Hersha Parady’s Husband, John Peverall
He was 14 Years Older than Parady and His Father was a Soldier
Hersha’s husband was born John Charles Peverall in 1931 in Islington, London, England, and was 14 years older than his wife who was born in May 1945.
He was born about 8 years after his parents, Pier John Peverall and Alice Maud Peverall were married in 1922 in Islington.
He led a quiet early life but his father was a soldier and served in the 1st Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment.
John Peverall Started His Career in the Movie Industry in the 1950s
Hersha’s husband started making an impact in the movie industry in the 1950s. He was an assistant director in over 35 movies and several other series.
Some of his earliest works are Prescription for Murder (1958), I Only Arsked! (1958), The Supreme Secret (1958), The Mummy (1959), and Yesterday’s Enemy (1959).
He later started a career as a producer and also as a production supervisor, production manager, and unit manager.
Through his contributions to the movie industry, Peverall won an Oscar in 1979 in the category of Best Picture for The Deer Hunter. She shared the award with Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, and Michael Cimino.
- The Far Pavilions (1984)
- McVicar (1980)
- Quarophenia (1979)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
- The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
- From Beyond the Grave (1974)
- The Assassination Bureau (1969)
- Only When I Larf (1968)
- Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
- The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
- Court Martial (1965)
- Khartoum (1966)
- Masquerade (1965)
- The Moon-Spinners (1964)
- This Is My Street (1964)
- The Magical World of Disney (1954)
- Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)
- West 11 (1963)
- The Damned (1962)
- The Primitives (1962)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
- Night Creatures (1962)
- The Traitors (1962)
- The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
- Cash on Demand (1961)
- Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
- The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
- The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
- The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
- The Brides of Dracula (1960)
- Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960)
- The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
- The Ugly Duckling (1959)
- The Mummy (1959)
- Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)
- The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
- The Supreme Secret (1958)
- I Only Arsked! (1958)
- Further Up the Creek (1958)
- Up the Creek (1958)
- Prescription for Murder (1958)
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John Peverall’s Marriage to Hersha Parady, Born Betty Ann Sandhoff
Hersha was married to her husband Peverall on 29 May 1994 in Pinellas, Florida, United States. At the time, Hersha was 49 while John was 63 years old.
Due to the union, she also became known as Hersha Peverall, and as Betty Paverall.
The union produced a son named Jonathan Peverall.
The marriage was mostly kept under wraps and while some sources claim that the union ended in divorce, others claim that they were still married until John died in 2009.
Speaking of death, let us look at how John died.
Hersha Parady’s Husband Died at 78 in the Same State He Married His Wife
John Peverall died at 78 on October 3, 2009, in Florida, United States. He was preceded in death by his mother Alice (died in 1995), and his father Pier (died in 1970).
He was also succeeded by his son Jonathan and Hersha who would later die of brain tumor on August 23, 2023, at 78.
