Renée Asherson, the Glossary
Dorothy Renée Ascherson (19 May 1915 – 30 October 2014), known professionally as Renée Asherson, was an English actress.[1]
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76 relations: A Streetcar Named Desire, Aldwych Theatre, Antonia Fraser, Apollo Theatre, Armchair Thriller, Arnold Bennett, Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Caesar and Cleopatra (film), Criterion Theatre, Denis Quilley, Duchy of Anjou, Edinburgh, Edwin (film), Extra (acting), Gerrards Cross, Grey Owl (film), Henry V (1944 film), Henry V (play), Henry V of England, Janet Suzman, John Gielgud, John Mills, Juliet, Kensington, King John (play), Laurence Olivier, Liverpool Playhouse, London, Malta Story, Memento mori, Midsomer Murders, Miss Marple (TV series), Much Ado About Nothing, Neal Ascherson, Nicole Kidman, Noël Coward Theatre, Once a Jolly Swagman, Pool of London (film), Primrose Hill, Quiet as a Nun, Rasputin the Mad Monk, Robert Donat, Romeo and Juliet, Savoy Theatre, She Stoops to Conquer, St Martin's Theatre, Tenko (TV series), The Clayhanger Family, The Cure for Love, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- Actors from Gerrards Cross
- Actresses from Buckinghamshire
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947.
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Aldwych Theatre
The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster, central London.
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Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
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Apollo Theatre
The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, in central London.
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Armchair Thriller
Armchair Thriller is a British television drama series broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980 in two seasons.
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically.
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Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)
Beatrice is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing.
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England.
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Caesar and Cleopatra (film)
Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 British Technicolor film directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains.
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Criterion Theatre
The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre at Piccadilly Circus in the City of Westminster, and is a Grade II* listed building.
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Denis Quilley
Denis Clifford Quilley, OBE (26 December 1927 – 5 October 2003) was an English actor and singer.
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Duchy of Anjou
The Duchy of Anjou (Andegavia) was a French province straddling the lower Loire.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Edwin (film)
Edwin is a 1984 British television film directed by Rodney Bennett and starring Alec Guinness, Renée Asherson and Paul Rogers.
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A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera, or ballet production who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene).
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Gerrards Cross
Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north bordering villages of Fulmer, Hedgerley, Iver Heath and Stoke Poges.
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Grey Owl (film)
Grey Owl is a 1999 biopic directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Pierce Brosnan in the role of real-life British schoolboy turned Native American trapper "Grey Owl", Archibald Belaney (1888–1938), and Annie Galipeau as his wife Anahareo, with brief appearances by Graham Greene and others.
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Henry V (1944 film)
Henry V is a 1944 British Technicolor epic film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same title.
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Henry V (play)
Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599.
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Henry V of England
Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422.
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Janet Suzman
Dame Janet Suzman, (born 9 February 1939) is a South African-born British actress who had a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on television.
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John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. Renée Asherson and John Gielgud are actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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John Mills
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
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Juliet
Juliet Capulet is the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
Kensington
Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London.
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King John (play)
The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), the son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Henry III of England.
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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Liverpool Playhouse
The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, England.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Malta Story
Malta Story is a 1953 British war film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, which is set during the air defence of Malta during the Siege of Malta in the Second World War.
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Memento mori
Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die"), Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition, June 2001.
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Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series created by Caroline Graham, and broadcasts on the ITV Network since its premiere on 23 March 1997.
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Miss Marple (TV series)
Miss Marple, titled Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the series, is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599.
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Neal Ascherson
Charles Neal Ascherson (born 5 October 1932) is a Scottish journalist and writer.
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Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress, model and producer.
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Noël Coward Theatre
The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
Once a Jolly Swagman (U.S. title: Maniacs on Wheels) is a 1949 British film starring Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Thora Hird and Sid James.
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Pool of London (film)
Pool of London is a 1951 British noir crime film directed by Basil Dearden.
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Primrose Hill
Primrose Hill is a Grade II listed public park located north of Regent's Park in London, England, first opened to the public in 1842.
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Quiet as a Nun
Quiet as a Nun is a thriller novel, written by Antonia Fraser.
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Rasputin the Mad Monk
Rasputin the Mad Monk is a 1966 Hammer horror film directed by Don Sharp and starring Christopher Lee as Grigori Rasputin, the Russian peasant-mystic who gained great influence with the Tsars prior to the Russian Revolution.
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Robert Donat
Friedrich Robert Donat (March 18, 1905 – June 9, 1958) was an English actor.
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.
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Savoy Theatre
The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773.
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St Martin's Theatre
St Martin's Theatre is a West End theatre which has staged the production of The Mousetrap since March 1974, making it the longest continuous run of any show in the world.
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Tenko (TV series)
Tenko is a television drama series co-produced by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which was broadcast between 1981 and 1985.
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The Clayhanger Family
The Clayhanger Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918.
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The Cure for Love
The Cure for Love is a 1949 British comedy film starring and directed by Robert Donat.
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The Cure for Love (play)
The Cure for Love is a comedy play by the British writer Walter Greenwood which premiered in 1945.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a 1961 British science fiction disaster film directed by Val Guest and starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro.
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The Grove, Highgate
The Grove, Highgate, N6 is a short tree-lined street in north London, running north from Highgate West Hill to Hampstead Lane, known for the notable residents who have lived there over several centuries.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Magic Box
The Magic Box is a 1951 British Technicolor biographical drama film directed by John Boulting.
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.
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The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.
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The Others (2001 film)
The Others (Los otros) is a 2001 gothic supernatural psychological horror film written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann and James Bentley.
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The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.
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The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory) is a 1949 film by the British producer-writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack.
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The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know is a 1969 British drama/sexploitation film, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Renée Asherson, Patrick Mower, Dennis Waterman, Madeleine Hinde and Maureen Lipman.
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The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.
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The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead (also known as Immortal Battalion) (1944) is a British Second World War drama film directed by Carol Reed.
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The Way to the Stars
The Way to the Stars is a 1945 Anglo-American black-and-white Second World War drama film made by Two Cities Films.
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Theatre of Blood
Theatre of Blood (U.S. title: Theater of Blood) is a 1973 British horror comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Vincent Price and Diana Rigg.
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Time Is My Enemy
Time Is My Enemy is a 1954 British crime film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Dennis Price, Renée Asherson and Patrick Barr.
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.
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Understudy
In theatre, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, actress, or other performer in a play.
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Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress.
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Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood (17 December 1903 – 13 September 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel Love on the Dole (1933).
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Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, formerly the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, was a drama school, and originally a singing school, in London.
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Westminster Theatre
The Westminster Theatre was a theatre in London, on Palace Street in Westminster.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal is a theatre in St Leonard's Place, in York, England, which dates back to 1744.
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See also
Actors from Gerrards Cross
- Angela Douglas
- C. V. France
- Jenny Hanley
- Kenneth More
- Renée Asherson
Actresses from Buckinghamshire
- Alexandra Gilbreath
- Alice Connor
- Angela Douglas
- Anna Acton
- Anneke Wills
- Beatrix Lehmann
- Beryl Reid
- Carla Chases
- Caroline Harding
- Carolyn Seymour
- Deborah Watling
- Diana King (actress)
- Dilys Watling
- Emily Bergl
- Gabriella Licudi
- Georgia Lock
- Gillian Blake
- Jennifer Kirby
- Jenny Hanley
- Joan Gardner (British actress)
- Katy Brand
- Louisa Connolly-Burnham
- Louise Dearman
- Lynda Bellingham
- Maggie O'Neill
- Margaret Rutherford
- Maria McErlane
- Mary Hayley Bell
- Renée Asherson
- Rosemarie Ford
- Ruta Gedmintas
- Sally-Jane Spencer
- Sharon Osbourne
- Simone Ashley
- Sue Bond
- Terri Seymour
- Thalissa Teixeira
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Asherson
Also known as Asherson, Dorothy Ascherson, Dorothy Renée Ascherson.
, The Cure for Love (play), The Daily Telegraph, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Grove, Highgate, The Guardian, The Independent, The Magic Box, The Merchant of Venice, The Old Vic, The Others (2001 film), The Scotsman, The Small Back Room, The Smashing Bird I Used to Know, The Tempest, The Way Ahead, The Way to the Stars, Theatre of Blood, Time Is My Enemy, Twelfth Night, Understudy, Vivien Leigh, Walter Greenwood, Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, Westminster Theatre, William Shakespeare, York Theatre Royal.