Renée Asherson
Date of birth: 1915-05-19
Place of birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Рене Эшерсон, Dorothy Renée Ascherson
Biography
Dorothy Renée Ascherson, known professionally as Renée Asherson, was an English actress. Much of her theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as the Old Vic, the Liverpool Playhouse, and the Westminster Theatre. Her first stage appearance was on 17 October 1935, aged 20, and her first major film appearance was in The Way Ahead (1944). Her last film appearance was in The Others (2001).
Movie Credits
The Others
2001-08-02
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Ni
Norbert Smith: A Life
1989-11-03
A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
Henry V
1944-11-24
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co
Pool of London
1951-02-20
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966-03-06
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand
Theatre of Blood
1973-03-16
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
The Way Ahead
1944-06-09
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and
Running Late
1992-10-11
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of
The Small Back Room
1949-02-21
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa
Malta Story
1953-06-01
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B
Miss Nightingale
1974-01-01
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
Grey Owl
1999-10-01
Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949-02-02
A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
1969-08-25
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an u
Time Is My Enemy
1954-09-01
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in
Bed
1995-10-20
Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
Romance on the Orient Express
1985-03-04
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France,
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961-11-01
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're
Harnessing Peacocks
1993-11-28
Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of
The Way to the Stars
1945-06-16
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri
Life After Life
1990-12-30
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
Edwin
1984-01-01
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves
Memento Mori
1992-04-19
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious teleph
The Cure for Love
1949-12-29
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to r
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945-12-11
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987-06-26
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films i
The Portland Millions
1976-09-17
Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
Quiet as a Nun
1978-04-11
A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a conven
Wind of Change
1977-05-01
1960/61: The decline of the aristocracy.