Robert Asher

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Robert Asher (* 1920 in Brent (Middlesex) , England , † November 16, 1979 in London-Hackney ) was a British film director .

Life

Robert Asher, born in 1920 in what is now Greater London, began his film career in 1943 when he was in his early twenties as an assistant director on Lance Comfort's comedy When We Are Married . He filled this job in over 40 cinema productions under many well-known directors such as Anthony Asquith , Ronald Neame , Ken Annakin and Roy Ward Baker until 1959, when he switched to directing himself. His first own film was the comedy Follow a Star with Norman Wisdom in the lead role, with which he also starred in the following years The Rocket for the Brisk Doll (1960), Bed Laughter (1963), The Big Bottle (1965), and Ein blindes Huhn (1966) should shoot together.

In 1967 Robert Asher switched from cinema to television as a director. There he staged various episodes for popular English series such as number 6 , Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone or Simon Templar . In 1973 he shot his last episode for The Pathfinders series .

Robert Asher has directed a total of nine films in his career and has directed several television programs himself. He died in November 1979 at the age of 59.

Cinematographer Jack Asher was his older brother.

Filmography (selection)

The grave of the film director Robert Asher in New Southgate Cemetery in north London

movie theater

  • 1959: Follow a Star
  • 1960: Make Mine Mink
  • 1960: The Bulldog Breed
  • 1962: She'll Have to Go
  • 1962: Practice early ... (On the Beat)
  • 1963: Bed Laughter (A Stitch in Time)
  • 1965: Hot Goods - Cold Feet (The Intelligence Men)
  • 1965: The Big Bottle (The Early Bird)
  • 1966: A Blind Chicken (Press for Time)

watch TV

literature

  • Robert Asher. In: Jack Webster : A Final Grain of Truth: My Autobiography. , 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. exact date of death according to David Jones: Film Fanatics Guide, Merlin Books Ltd., Braunton (Devon) 1988, p. 8
  2. Robert Asher at findmypast.co.uk
  3. The often read, alleged birth years of Asher 1915 or 1916 are presumably errors and are probably based on a confusion with the year of birth Jack Asher (1916). Since only one Robert Asher died in the last quarter of 1979 - the date of death is certain - and this Asher was born in 1920 (see link) it must be this Robert Asher
  4. Robert Asher. In: Geoff Mayer : Guide to British Cinema. , Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003, p. 350