Renée Asherson
Acting • Born 1915-05-19 – 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
47 credits
The Others
Movie • 2001
Old Lady
Norbert Smith: A Life
Movie • 1989
Lady Norbert
Henry V
Movie • 1944
Princess Katherine
Pool of London
Movie • 1951
Sally
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Movie • 1966
Tsarina
Theatre of Blood
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Maxwell
The Way Ahead
Movie • 1944
Marjorie Gillingham
Running Late
Movie • 1992
Old Lady
The Small Back Room
Movie • 1949
A.T.S. corporal
Malta Story
Movie • 1953
Joan Rivers
Miss Nightingale
Movie • 1974
Fanny Nightingale
Grey Owl
Movie • 1999
The Magic Box
Movie • 1952
Miss Tagg
Once a Jolly Swagman
Movie • 1949
Pat
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Movie • 1969
Anne Johnson
Time Is My Enemy
Movie • 1954
Barbara Everton
Bed
Movie • 1995
Marjorie
Romance on the Orient Express
Movie • 1985
Beatrice
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Movie • 1961
Angela
Harnessing Peacocks
Movie • 1993
Louisa Fox
The Way to the Stars
Movie • 1945
Iris Winterton
Life After Life
Movie • 1990
Rosie Treadwell
Edwin
Movie • 1984
Lady Margaret Truscott
Memento Mori
Movie • 1992
Charmian Colston
The Cure for Love
Movie • 1949
Milly Southern
Caesar and Cleopatra
Movie • 1945
Iras (uncredited)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Movie • 1987
(archive footage)
The Portland Millions
Movie • 1976
Miss Robinson
Quiet as a Nun
Movie • 1978
Mother Ancilla
Wind of Change
Movie • 1977
Lady Birt
An Aspidistra in Babylon
Movie • 1973
Mother
Tenko
TV • 1981
Sylvia Ashburton
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Baroness
Disraeli
TV • 1978
Lady Bradford
Tom's Midnight Garden
TV • 1989
Mrs. Bartholemew
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
TV • 1985
Miss Bunner
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Emily Simpson
Time for Murder
TV • 1985
Helen, Lady Sibley
Brighton Belles
TV • 1993
Diana
Strange Report
TV • 1969
Miss Dalton
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
Fay Driver
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Charmian Colston
Performance
TV • 1991
Marjorie
Clayhanger
TV • 1976
Miss Gailey
A Man Called Intrepid
TV • 1979
Mrs. Wainwright
Jubilee 1977
TV • 1977
Lady Maude Birt
Victorian Scandals
TV • 1976
Miss Robinson