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Anthony Asquith was an English film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was born on 9 November 1902 in London, England, UK. He was the son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.
Asquith began his career as an actor in the 1920s, appearing in several films. He then moved into directing, and his first film was Underground (1928). He went on to direct a number of successful films, including Pygmalion (1938), The Way to the Stars (1945), and The Browning Version (1951).
Asquith was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director for Pygmalion and The Browning Version. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best British Film for The Way to the Stars.
Asquith's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million. He earned his wealth from his career as a director, screenwriter, and actor.
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66 years old |
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9 November, 1902 |
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20 February, 1968 |
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Marylebone, London, England, UK |
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In 1967 Asquith was tipped to direct the big-screen adaptation of the best-selling novel The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) set to co-star Olivier and Anthony Quinn, but he had to drop out of the production due to ill heath.
s (1963), also with a screenplay by Rattigan. It is based in an incident in the life of Laurence Olivier, a frequent Asquith collaborator.
Asquith was active in the British film industry from the late silent period until the mid-1960s.
As a director he was highly respected by his contemporaries and had a long and successful career; by the 1960s he was one of only three British directors (the others being David Lean and Carol Reed) who were directing major international motion picture productions. However, Asquith's proclivity for adapting plays for the screen caused an erosion in his critical reputation as a filmmaker after his death. He was faulted for what was perceived as his failure to focus, like his contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, on the cinematic. Asquith was known as an actor's director, and solicited some of the finest film performances from Britain's greatest actors, including Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave. Although Asquith's first love was music, he lacked musical talent. He channeled his artistic ambitions toward the nascent motion picture, and was instrumental in the formation of the London Film Society to promote artistic appreciation of film.
By the 1960s Asquith was directing Hollywood-style all-star productions, including the episodic The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), once again from a screenplay by Rattigan, and the Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor potboiler The V. I. P.
Asquith's most successful postwar film was, arguably, his adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). More than a half-century after it was made, Asquith's film remains the best adaptation of Wilde's work. Ironically, Asquith's father H. H. , while serving as Home Secretary, ordered Wilde's arrest for his homosexual behavior. Wilde's arrest, for "indecent behavior", led to his incarceration in the Reading jail and destroyed the great playwright, personally. The Wilde incident stifled gay culture in Britain for the first two-thirds of the 20th century. Another irony of the situation is that H. H. 's youngest son, Anthony, himself was gay.
Asquith had a long professional association with playwright Terence Rattigan, and two of Asquith's most famous and successful pictures were based on Rattigan plays, The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951).
Asquith directed the screen version of Rattigan's first successful play, French Without Tears (1940), in 1940.
Among his best-known films is Pygmalion (1938), an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's stage play, which he co-directed with its star, Leslie Howard. The film was a major critical success, even in the United States, winning multiple Academy Award nominations. Nobel Prize-winner Shaw, who had been a co-founder of the London Film Society along with Asquith, won an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for the film.
Asquith traveled to Hollywood in the 1920s to observe American film production techniques, and after returning to England, he became a director.
Asquith served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1908-1916 and was subsequently elevated to the hereditary peerage. His youngest child, Anthony, was called Puffin by his family, a nickname given him by his mother, who thought he resembled one. Puffin was also the name his friends called him throughout his life.
British film director Anthony Asquith was born on November 9, 1902, to H. H. Asquith, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his second wife. A former home secretary and the future leader of the Liberal Party, H. H.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 8-12. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.