Renée Asherson
Acting
Born May 19, 1915, Kensington, London, England, UK
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
- 2001The Others — Old Lady
- 1999Grey Owl
- Midsomer Murders — Emily Simpson
- 1995Bed — Marjorie
- Brighton Belles — Diana
- 1993Harnessing Peacocks — Louisa Fox
- 1992Memento Mori — Charmian Colston
- 1992Running Late — Old Lady
- Performance — Marjorie
- 1990Life After Life — Rosie Treadwell
- 1989Norbert Smith: A Life — Lady Norbert
- 1989Tom's Midnight Garden — Mrs Bartholomew
- Tom's Midnight Garden — Mrs Bartholomew
- 1987Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood — (archive footage)
- Lovejoy — Baroness
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced — Miss Bunner
- 1985Romance on the Orient Express — Beatrice
- Screen Two — Charmian Colston
- Time for Murder — Helen, Lady Sibley
- 1984Edwin — Lady Margaret Truscott
- Love and Marriage — Dame Ursula Ford
- Goodbye Darling — Maude Ransome
- Tenko — Sylvia Ashburton
- A Man Called Intrepid — Mrs. Wainwright
- Disraeli — Lady Bradford
- 1978Quiet as a Nun — Mother Ancilla
- Jubilee 1977 — Lady Maude Birt
- 1977Wind of Change — Lady Birt
- Clayhanger — Miss Gailey
- 1976The Portland Millions — Miss Robinson
- Victorian Scandals — Miss Robinson
- 1974Miss Nightingale — Fanny Nightingale
- 1973An Aspidistra in Babylon — Mother
- Away from It All — Evie
- 1973Theatre of Blood — Mrs. Maxwell
- Country Matters — Mother
- Strange Report — Miss Dalton
- 1969The Smashing Bird I Used to Know — Anne Johnson
- 1966Rasputin: The Mad Monk — Tsarina
- Thirty-Minute Theatre — Miss Parks
- 1961The Day the Earth Caught Fire — Angela
- Sunday-Night Play — Fay Driver
- 1954Time Is My Enemy — Barbara Everton
- 1953Malta Story — Joan Rivers
- 1952The Magic Box — Miss Tagg
- 1951Pool of London — Sally
- 1949Once a Jolly Swagman — Pat
- 1949The Cure for Love — Milly Southern
- 1949The Small Back Room — A.T.S. corporal
- 1945Caesar and Cleopatra — Iras (uncredited)
- 1945The Way to the Stars — Iris Winterton
- 1944Henry V — Princess Katherine
- 1944The Way Ahead — Marjorie Gillingham