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Anthony Asquith (/ ˈ æ s k w ɪ θ /; 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.
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In 1925, Asquith was raised to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith. His great-grandson Raymond is the present Earl. All of H. H. Asquith's seven children achieved some prominence in national affairs. By his first wife Helen Kelsall Melland (d. 1891), he had four sons and one daughter. All of the sons volunteered for the Front early in the ...
Orders to Kill is a 1958 British wartime drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Paul Massie, Eddie Albert and Irene Worth. [3] [4] It was written by Paul Dehn and George St. George based on a story by Donald Chase Downes, [5] [6] a former American intelligence operative who also acted as technical adviser to the film.
Anthony Asquith, only son from the second marriage of the first Earl, became a successful film director. Dominic Asquith , second son of the second Earl, is a prominent diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Iraq from 2006 to 2007.
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an ageing Classics master at an English public school, and is forced into retirement by his increasing ill health.The film, in common with the original stage play, follows the schoolmaster's final two days in his post, as he comes to terms with his sense of failure as a teacher, a sense of weakness exacerbated by his wife's infidelity and the realisation that he is ...
Underground is a 1928 British sound drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, and Norah Baring.While the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects, using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
A Cottage on Dartmoor (a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor) is a 1929 British part-talkie sound film, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Norah Baring, Uno Henning and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. The cameraman was Stanley Rodwell. In addition to a sequence with audible dialogue or a talking sequence, the film also featured a synchronized musical ...