Acting

Renée Asherson

Born 1915-05-19 · Kensington, London, England, UK

Died 2014-10-30

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).

Credits

Newest first

The Others
as Old Lady
2001
Grey Owl
1999
Midsomer Murders
as Emily Simpson
1997
Bed
as Marjorie
1995
Harnessing Peacocks
as Louisa Fox
1993
Brighton Belles
as Diana
1993
Running Late
as Old Lady
1992
Memento Mori
as Charmian Colston
1992
Performance
as Marjorie
1991
Life After Life
as Rosie Treadwell
1990
Norbert Smith: A Life
as Lady Norbert
1989
Tom's Midnight Garden
as Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Tom's Midnight Garden
as Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as (archive footage)
1987
Lovejoy
as Baroness
1986
Time for Murder
as Helen, Lady Sibley
1985
Romance on the Orient Express
as Beatrice
1985
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Miss Bunner
1985
Screen Two
as Charmian Colston
1985
Love and Marriage
as Dame Ursula Ford
1984
Edwin
as Lady Margaret Truscott
1984
Tenko
as Sylvia Ashburton
1981
Goodbye Darling
as Maude Ransome
1981
A Man Called Intrepid
as Mrs. Wainwright
1979
Disraeli
as Lady Bradford
1978
Quiet as a Nun
as Mother Ancilla
1978
Wind of Change
as Lady Birt
1977
Jubilee 1977
as Lady Maude Birt
1977
The Portland Millions
as Miss Robinson
1976
Victorian Scandals
as Miss Robinson
1976
Clayhanger
as Miss Gailey
1976
Miss Nightingale
as Fanny Nightingale
1974
Away from It All
as Evie
1973
Theatre of Blood
as Mrs. Maxwell
1973
An Aspidistra in Babylon
as Mother
1973
Country Matters
as Mother
1972
Strange Report
as Miss Dalton
1969
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
as Anne Johnson
1969
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Tsarina
1966
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Miss Parks
1965
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
as Angela
1961
Sunday-Night Play
as Fay Driver
1960
Time Is My Enemy
as Barbara Everton
1954
Malta Story
as Joan Rivers
1953
The Magic Box
as Miss Tagg
1952
Pool of London
as Sally
1951
The Cure for Love
as Milly Southern
1949
The Small Back Room
as A.T.S. corporal
1949
Once a Jolly Swagman
as Pat
1949
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Iras (uncredited)
1945
The Way to the Stars
as Iris Winterton
1945
Henry V
as Princess Katherine
1944
The Way Ahead
as Marjorie Gillingham
1944