Renée Asherson

Renée Asherson

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).

  • Popularity : 4.473
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1915-05-19
  • Place of Birth : Kensington, London, England, UK
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Renée Asherson Movies

  • 2001
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    The Others

    The Others

    7.614 2001 HD

    Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When...

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  • 1989
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    Sir Norbert Smith, a Life

    Sir Norbert Smith, a Life

    8 1989 HD

    a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

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  • 1944
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    Henry V

    Henry V

    6.582 1944 HD

    In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

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  • 1951
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    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    6.4 1951 HD

    Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

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  • 1966
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    Rasputin: The Mad Monk

    Rasputin: The Mad Monk

    5.9 1966 HD

    Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals...

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  • 1973
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    Theatre of Blood

    Theatre of Blood

    6.736 1973 HD

    A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

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  • 1944
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    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead

    6.4 1944 HD

    A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...

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  • 1992
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    Running Late

    Running Late

    1 1992 HD

    Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at...

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  • 1949
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    The Small Back Room

    The Small Back Room

    6.6 1949 HD

    At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal...

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  • 1953
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    Malta Story

    Malta Story

    5.8 1953 HD

    Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese...

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  • 1974
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    Miss Nightingale

    Miss Nightingale

    1 1974 HD

    The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.

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  • 1999
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    Grey Owl

    Grey Owl

    5.5 1999 HD

    Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the...

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.3 1952 HD

    Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

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  • 1949
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    Once a Jolly Swagman

    Once a Jolly Swagman

    5.4 1949 HD

    A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

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  • 1969
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    The Smashing Bird I Used to Know

    The Smashing Bird I Used to Know

    5.1 1969 HD

    A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.

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  • 1954
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    Time Is My Enemy

    Time Is My Enemy

    5.8 1954 HD

    A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.

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  • 1995
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    Bed

    Bed

    1 1995 HD

    Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.

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  • 1985
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    Romance on the Orient Express

    Romance on the Orient Express

    5.2 1985 HD

    Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who...

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  • 1961
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    The Day the Earth Caught Fire

    The Day the Earth Caught Fire

    6.8 1961 HD

    British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world...

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  • 1993
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    Harnessing Peacocks

    Harnessing Peacocks

    4.5 1993 HD

    Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in...

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  • 1945
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    The Way to the Stars

    The Way to the Stars

    5.7 1945 HD

    Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join...

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  • 1990
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    Life After Life

    Life After Life

    1 1990 HD

    A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.

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  • 1979
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    A Man Called Intrepid

    A Man Called Intrepid

    7 1979 HD

    During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.

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  • 1984
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    Edwin

    Edwin

    8 1984 HD

    Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's...

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  • 1992
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    Memento Mori

    Memento Mori

    7 1992 HD

    Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

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  • 1949
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    The Cure for Love

    The Cure for Love

    1 1949 HD

    Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he...

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  • 1945
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    Caesar and Cleopatra

    Caesar and Cleopatra

    6.1 1945 HD

    The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

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  • 1987
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    Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    6.4 1987 HD

    A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips...

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  • 1976
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    The Portland Millions

    The Portland Millions

    1 1976 HD

    Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

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  • 1981
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    Tenko

    Tenko

    7.95 1981 HD

    Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of...

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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.4 1986 HD

    The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

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  • 1978
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    Disraeli

    Disraeli

    7.5 1978 HD

    Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.

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  • 1965
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    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    3.8 1965 HD

    Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a...

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  • 1989
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    Tom's Midnight Garden

    Tom's Midnight Garden

    6 1989 HD

    Six part BBC adaptation of the novel for children by Philippa Pearce. Tom Long is staying at his Aunt and Uncle's. When their grandfather clock...

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  • 1985
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    Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

    Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

    7.2 1985 HD

    An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.

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  • 1997
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.6 1997 HD

    The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

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  • 1985
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    Time for Murder

    Time for Murder

    4 1985 HD

    Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no...

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  • 1984
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    Miss Marple

    Miss Marple

    8 1984 HD

    Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan...

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  • 1993
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    Brighton Belles

    Brighton Belles

    2 1993 HD

    On her husband's demise, attractive Bridget suddenly finds she can't meet the financial demand of her Sussex country house in Brighton without his...

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  • 1976
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    Victorian Scandals

    Victorian Scandals

    1 1976 HD

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