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).

  • Title: Renée Asherson
  • Popularity: 16.493
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1915-05-19
  • Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Рене Эшерсон, Dorothy Renée Ascherson
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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...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Nicole Kidman

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  • 1944
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    Henry V
    Henry V

    6.615 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.

    Genre: History

    Cast: Laurence Olivier

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  • 1951
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    Pool of London
    Pool of London

    6.448 1951 HD

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

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Bonar Colleano

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  • 1973
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    Theatre of Blood
    Theatre of Blood

    6.749 1973 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Vincent Price

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  • 1966
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    Rasputin: The Mad Monk
    Rasputin: The Mad Monk

    5.913 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...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Christopher Lee

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Niven

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  • 1949
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    The Small Back Room
    The Small Back Room

    6.5 1949 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Farrar

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Donat

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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.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Dirk Bogarde

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  • 1969
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    The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
    The Smashing Bird I Used to Know

    5.714 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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Madeleine Hinde

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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.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Dennis Price

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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.

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Renée Asherson

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Cheryl Ladd

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  • 1961
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    The Day the Earth Caught Fire
    The Day the Earth Caught Fire

    6.802 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...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Janet Munro

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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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Serena Scott Thomas

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alec Guinness

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Redgrave

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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.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: George Cole

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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.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: David Niven

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alec Guinness

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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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Maggie Smith

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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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Donat

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  • 1945
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    Caesar and Cleopatra
    Caesar and Cleopatra

    6.151 1945 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Claude Rains

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Charles Gray

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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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Bowles

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  • 1999
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    Grey Owl
    Grey Owl

    5.526 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...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Pierce Brosnan

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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.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Harry Enfield

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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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    Cast: Robert Flemyng

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  • 1984
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    Tenko
    Tenko

    7.95 1984 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephanie Cole

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  • 1994
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    Lovejoy
    Lovejoy

    7.3 1994 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ian McShane

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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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ian McShane

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  • 1973
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    Thirty-Minute Theatre
    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    3.8 1973 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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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...

    Genre: Kids

    Cast: Jeremy Rampling

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  • 2024
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    Midsomer Murders
    Midsomer Murders

    7.571 2024 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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Neil Dudgeon

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  • 1994
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    Brighton Belles
    Brighton Belles

    2 1994 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jean Boht

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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.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Joan Hickson

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  • 1985
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    Time for Murder
    Time for Murder

    1 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...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast:

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  • 1987
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    Miss Marple
    Miss Marple

    8 1987 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joan Hickson

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