Renée Asherson
Birthday: 1915-05-19
Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
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).
Movies
The Others
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Ni...
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Norbert Smith: A Life
A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith....
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Henry V
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
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Pool of London
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....
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Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand...
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Theatre of Blood
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition....
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The Way Ahead
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and...
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Running Late
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of...
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The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...
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Malta Story
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...
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Miss Nightingale
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale....
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Grey Owl
Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an u...
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Time Is My Enemy
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in ...
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Romance on the Orient Express
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France,...
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're ...
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Harnessing Peacocks
Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of...
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The Way to the Stars
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri...
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Edwin
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves ...
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Memento Mori
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious teleph...
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The Cure for Love
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to r...
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Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra....
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films i...
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Quiet as a Nun
A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a conven...
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