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Anthony Asquith

Film Director / Screenwriter / Actor | * 11/09/1902 († 65, 02/20/1968) | London (United Kingdom (UK))
Anthony Asquith (9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was an English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), among other adaptations. His other notable films include Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Way to the Stars (1945) and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | War

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Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Milli ...

The Browning Version

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1951 | 3.8/5 | 1h 30min
Drama
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When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. ...

Pygmalion

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1939 | 3.5/5 | 1h 36min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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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 Pil ...

The Way to the Stars

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1945 | 2.7/5 | 1h 49min
Drama, War, Romance / Love
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A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Na ...

Orders to Kill

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1958 | 3.5/5 | 1h 52min
Drama, Thriller, War
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Movies with Anthony Asquith as Actor(2)

1960 Insight: Anthony Asquith
as Bespectacled Man in Cinema (uncredited)1929 A Cottage on Dartmoor

Movies with Anthony Asquith as Crew(54)

Directing/Director1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Directing/Director1963 The V.I.P.s
Directing/Director1963 An Evening With The Royal Ballet
Directing/Director1962 Guns of Darkness
Directing/Director1961 Two Living, One Dead
Writing/Writer1961 Two Living, One Dead
Directing/Director1960 The Millionairess
Directing/Director1959 The Doctor's Dilemma
Directing/Director1959 Libel
Directing/Director1958 Orders to Kill
Directing/Director1956 On Such a Night
Directing/Director1954 Carrington V.C.
Directing/Director1954 The Young Lovers
Directing/Director1953 The Final Test
Directing/Director1953 The Net
Directing/Director1952 The Importance of Being Earnest
Writing/Screenplay1952 The Importance of Being Earnest
Directing/Director1951 The Browning Version
Directing/Director1950 The Woman in Question
Directing/Director1948 The Winslow Boy
Directing/Director1947 While the Sun Shines
Directing/Director1945 The Way to the Stars
Directing/Director1944 Fanny by Gaslight
Directing/Director1943 We Dive at Dawn
Directing/Director1943 A Welcome to Britain
Directing/Director1943 The Demi-Paradise
Directing/Director1942 Uncensored
Directing/Director1941 Rush Hour
Directing/Director1941 Cottage to Let
Directing/Director1941 Freedom Radio
Directing/Director1941 Quiet Wedding
Directing/Director1940 French Without Tears
Directing/Director1940 Channel Incident
Directing/Director1939 Pygmalion
Directing/Director1936 The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
Directing/Assistant Director1935 Brown on Resolution
Directing/Director1935 Moscow Nights
Directing/Director1934 Unfinished Symphony
Directing/Director1933 The Lucky Number
Writing/Writer1933 The Lucky Number
Writing/Story1933 Letting in the Sunshine
Writing/Writer1932 Marry Me
Directing/Director1931 Dance Pretty Lady
Writing/Writer1931 Dance Pretty Lady
Directing/Director1931 Tell England
Writing/Writer1931 Tell England
Directing/Director1929 The Runaway Princess
Directing/Director1929 A Cottage on Dartmoor
Writing/Writer1929 A Cottage on Dartmoor
Directing/Director1928 Shooting Stars
Writing/Writer1928 Shooting Stars
Directing/Director1928 Underground
Writing/Screenplay1928 Underground
Writing/Writer1927 Boadicea

Full Name: Anthony Asquith
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Sunday, 11/09 1902 (November) in London (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Tuesday, 02/20 1968 (February) in London (aged: 65)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Balliol College, Winchester College, Summer Fields School
Siblings: Herbert Asquith, Raymond Asquith, Arthur Asquith, Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, Violet Bonham Carter, Elizabeth Bibesco
Father: H. H. Asquith
Mother: Margot Asquith
Other names for Anthony Asquith (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Антони Асквит"
"Энтони Асквит"
"Энтони Эсквит"
Anthony Asquith frequently works together with these people:
Anatole de Grunwald (16x, Crew)
Terence Rattigan (12x, Crew)
Benjamin Frankel (9x, Crew)
Teddy Baird (7x, Crew)
Johnnie Schofield (6x, Actor)
Margaret Rutherford (5x, Actress)
Bernard Knowles (5x, Crew)
George Bernard Shaw (5x, Crew)
Desmond Dickinson (5x, Crew)
Wally Patch (5x, Actor)
H. Bruce Woolfe (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:857809, Added: 11/14/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024