Renée Asherson

Born: 1915-05-19, Kensington, London, England, UK

Died: 2014-10-30

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).

Filmography

• Midsomer Murders (1997)
• Screen Two (1985)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
• The Others (2001)
• Lovejoy (1986)
• Tenko (1981)
• Clayhanger (1976)
• Grey Owl (1999)
• Country Matters (1972)
• Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985)
• Victorian Scandals (1976)
• Theatre of Blood (1973)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
• The Small Back Room (1949)
• The Way Ahead (1944)
• A Man Called Intrepid (1979)
• The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)
• Brighton Belles (1993)
• Disraeli (1978)
• Edwin (1984)
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
• Bed (1995)
• Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood (1987)
• The Magic Box (1952)
• Pool of London (1951)
• Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
• Romance on the Orient Express (1985)
• Quiet as a Nun (1978)
• The Way to the Stars (1945)
• Norbert Smith: A Life (1989)