Renée Asherson
Also Known As: Рене Эшерсон, Dorothy Renée Ascherson
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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
Birthday: May 19, 1915
Deathday: October 30, 2014
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Gender: Female
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The Others
Overview: 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 the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-02
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Sir Norbert Smith, a Life
Overview: a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Overview: 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 plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-06
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Theatre of Blood
Overview: A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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The Way Ahead
Overview: A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Running Late
Overview: 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 his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-11
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The Small Back Room
Overview: 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 officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-21
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Malta Story
Overview: 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 girl.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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Miss Nightingale
Overview: The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Grey Owl
Overview: 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 woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he leaves, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England, his secret is revealed. Will Anahareo continue to love him?
Genres: Western Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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The Magic Box
Overview: 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 include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Once a Jolly Swagman
Overview: A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Overview: A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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Time Is My Enemy
Overview: A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Bed
Overview: Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Romance on the Orient Express
Overview: Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years earlier while vacationing in France, which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt break-up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-04
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Overview: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Harnessing Peacocks
Overview: 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 a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley’s bestselling novel, «Harnessing Peacocks» is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-28
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The Way to the Stars
Overview: 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 in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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Life After Life
Overview: A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-30
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A Man Called Intrepid
Overview: During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-07
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Edwin
Overview: 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 fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Memento Mori
Overview: Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-19
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The Cure for Love
Overview: Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-29
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Overview: The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-11
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Overview: 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 from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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The Portland Millions
Overview: Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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