{"id":34036,"date":"2014-11-07T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=34036"},"modified":"2014-11-07T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T04:18:30","slug":"vale-renee-asherson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2014\/11\/07\/vale-renee-asherson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Renee Asherson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34037\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg\" alt=\"Renee Asherson - 1915-2014\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renee Asherson &#8211; 1915-2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">English stage, television and film actress Renee Asherson has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Asherson began her career on stage in Britain in 1935, in an adaption of <em>Romeo &amp; Juliet<\/em> for Sir John Gielgud. Asherson had a significant television career, commencing in 1939&#8217;s <em>Smiling At Grief<\/em>, before her first major role in a feature film came in 1944&#8217;s <em>The Way Ahead<\/em>, followed by 1945&#8217;s<em> Caesar &amp; Cleopatra, Henry V<\/em> (for Laurence Olivier),<em> The Day The Earth Caught Fire<\/em>, and 1973&#8217;s <em>Theater Of Blood<\/em>. Her most recent film role was opposite Nicole Kidman in <em>The Others<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Between 1953 and 1958, Ms Asherson was married to fellow actor Robert Donat, who received a Best Actor Oscar for his work in <em>Goodbye Mr Chips<\/em>, and also appeared in Hitchcock&#8217;s <em>The 39 Steps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Asherson passed away on October 30th, aged 99.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34038\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/others_2001-2-720x404.jpg\" alt=\"Ms Asherson in 2001's The Others.\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/others_2001-2-720x404.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/others_2001-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/others_2001-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms Asherson in 2001&#8217;s The Others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English stage, television and film actress Renee Asherson has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":34037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",360,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-360x280.jpg",360,280,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-360x365.jpg",360,365,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",360,450,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",360,450,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",360,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",360,450,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",360,450,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",272,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/renee_asherson.jpg",146,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}