Anthony Asquith

The Honourable Anthony Asquith
Walter J. Turner, Asquith, Charles Percy Sanger and Mark Gertler, in a photo taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell
Born	9 November 1902 London, England
Died	20 February 1968(1968-02-20) (aged 65) London, England
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1927–1964
Parents	H. H. Asquith Margot Tennant

Anthony Asquith (/ˈæskwɪθ/; 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.

Life and career

Born in London, he was the son of

Asquith was a longtime friend and colleague of Terence Rattigan (they collaborated on ten films) and producer Anatole de Grunwald. His later films included Rattigan's The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

Asquith was an

Feature film

• Shooting Stars (1927)
• Underground (1928)
• The Runaway Princess (1929)
• A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
• Tell England (1931)
• Dance Pretty Lady (1932)
• The Lucky Number (1933)
• Letting in the Sunshine (1933)
• Unfinished Symphony (1934)
• Moscow Nights (1935)
• Pygmalion (1938)
• French Without Tears (1940)
• Freedom Radio (1941)
• Quiet Wedding (1941)
• Cottage to Let (1941)
• Uncensored (1942)
• We Dive at Dawn (1943)
• The Demi-Paradise (1943)
• Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
• The Way to the Stars (1945)
• While the Sun Shines (1947)
• The Winslow Boy (1948)
• The Woman in Question (1950)
• The Browning Version (1951)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
• The Final Test (1953)
• The Net (1953)
• The Young Lovers (1954)
• Carrington V.C. (1955)
• On Such a Night (1955)
• Orders to Kill (1958)
• The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
• Libel (1959)
• The Millionairess (1960)
• Two Living, One Dead (1961)
• Guns of Darkness (1962)
• The V.I.P.s (1963)
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965)

Short film

• The Story of Papworth (1935)^[5]
• Channel Incident (1940)
• Rush Hour (1941)
• Two Fathers (1944)

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