Jane Asher Filmography

The White Knight

Actors: Paz Vega, Casper Zafer, Esther Nubiola, Leonor Watling, Ingrid Rubio, Charlie Cox

Synopsis: Writer-director Vincente Aranda adapted his sweeping historical saga Tirante el Blanco (AKA The White Knight, 2006) from the bestselling European novel by Joanot Martorell. Casper Zafer (La Femme Musketeer) plays the titular soldier, Tirante. Ordered by the Emperor of Byzantium to free Read More

French & Saunders: Living in a Material World

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This compendium of material from the BBC sketch comedy program French & Saunders pokes fun at everything from Baywatch and the Batman franchise to Björk and Ingmar Bergman, stopping along the way to mock British tennis players and postcolonial biddies. Most of the material dates from the early to Read More

Closing Numbers

Actors: Jane Asher, Tim Woodward, Patrick Pearson, Nigel Charnock, Hazel Douglas

Synopsis: This British gay drama explores the reaction of a British housewife who suddenly discovers that her husband Keith is having an affair with another man. Anna is devastated by the discovery. After her initial hysterical reaction, Anna begins to do some research about homosexuals and their practices. Read More

Paris by Night

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Jane Asher, Andrew Ray

Synopsis: British playwright David Hare both wrote and directed the complicated political melodrama Paris By Night. Charlotte Rampling plays a Tory member of the European parliament, who lets absolutely nothing get in way of her ambitions. At present, Rampling is convinced that she is being blackmailed by Read More

Wish Me Luck [TV Series]

Actors: Kate Buffery, Suzanna Hamilton, Jane Asher, Julian Glover, Michael J. Jackson

Synopsis: WWII was remembered from a distinctly feminist point of view in the long-running British drama series Wish Me Luck. Jane Asher was cast as Faith Ashley, London-based coordinator for a team of female resistance fighters, who journeyed behind enemy lines to confound the Nazis. Ashley's chief Read More

Dreamchild

Actors: Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper, Caris Corfman, Amelia Shankley

Synopsis: Irreverent British writer Dennis Potter speaks aloud what many literary historians have only postulated in whispers in Dreamchild. The film is set in 1932, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll. The guest of honor at the New York-based celebration is Read More

Voyage' Round My Father

Actors: Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: John Mortimer's autobiographical play Voyage 'Round My Father was given a class-A TV adaptation in 1984. Mortimer, best known for his Rumpole of the Bailey stories, has fashioned an unexpurgated but affectionate portrait of his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer, played by Sir Read More

Success is the Best Revenge

Actors: Michael York, Janna Szerzerbic, Michael Lyndon, George Skolimowski, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Read More

Runners

Actors: James Fox, Jane Asher, Kate Hardie, Robert Lang, Eileen O'Brien

Synopsis: In this standard story about a father searching for his missing teenage daughter long after others have given up, there are a few subplots, such as a woman looking for her own missing son, but attention focuses on the father's search. When he does find his daughter safe and sound -- working in a Read More

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Actors: David Baillie, Peter Clay, Sarah Long, Mark York, Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Frances Cuka

Synopsis: Henry VIII and His Six Wives is a feature film based upon the 1971 BBC miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Keith Michell weathers several makeup changes as the much-married titular monarch. While the miniseries was able to explore the political and personal reasons for the selection (and Read More

The Buttercup Chain

Actors: Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jane Asher, Sven-Bertil Taube, Clive Revill

Synopsis: The Buttercup Chain, based on Janice Elliot's novel, details the intense friendship among four people that turns tragic over the course of one summer. France (Hywel Bennett) and Margaret (Jane Asher) are first cousins, born of twin sisters on the same day. As children, they were brought up as Read More

Deep End

Actors: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors

Synopsis: John Moulder-Brown plays a teen-aged London bathhouse attendant who forms a business alliance with female attendant Jane Asher. The object is to obtain better tips from their clients, but soon the impressionable Moulder-Brown falls in love with the older Asher. Brushed off by the girl in favor of Read More

The Winter's Tale

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jane Asher, Diana Churchill, Moira Redmond, Jim Dale

Synopsis: This feature is a filmed stage production of the tragedy by William Shakespeare. Laurence Harvey stars as Leontes, the jealous king who eventually repents his wrongdoings. Moira Redmond is Queen Hermione who is victimized by the indiscretions of her monarch husband. Jane Asher is the village Read More

Alfie

Actors: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher

Synopsis: Michael Caine's first starring role was a foray into dramatic irony, scripted by Bill Naughton from his novel and play. Alfie (Caine) is a charming, rogueish Cockney who cannot get his fill of women. He uses them without shame or malice, jumping from one promiscuous female's bed to another without Read More

The Masque of the Red Death

Actors: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: Though based on two Edgar Allen Poe stories, Masque of the Red Death relies more upon its mood and atmosphere than its story values for its success. During a devastating 12th-century plague called "The Red Death," the decadent, devil-worshipping Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) holds court over a Read More

The Model Murder Case

Synopsis: When a beautiful model is found shot in her apartment, a famous television star is felt to be the murderer in a failed extortion plot. Although the investigation turns up a surprise ending, by the time most viewers get there they could not care less who did it. Singularly uninspired murder drama. Read More

The Girl in the Headlines

Actors: Ronald Fraser, Ian Hendry, Margaret Johnston, Natasha Parry, Jeremy Brett

Synopsis: Inspector Birkett (Ian Hendry) and his faithful assistant Saunders (Ronald Fraser) are assigned to investigate the murder of a fashion model. they arrive at the scene of the crime, scouring the dead girl's apartment for clues. On the surface, it appears robbery is the motive, and the detectives Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Guy Williams, Sean Scully, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Based on Mark Twain's classic tale, this lively 16th-century-set comedy drama chronicles the misadventures and the lessons learned by two disparate and discontented look-a-likes who swear that the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Loss of Innocence

Actors: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Jane Asher, Claude Nollier

Synopsis: A young Susannah York had her first lead role in this drama about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood. When her mother falls ill during a vacation in the French wine country, 16-year-old Joss Grey (York) is left to her own devices as she and her three younger siblings are left in the reluctant Read More

The Adventures of Robin Hood: Christmas Goose

The Quatermass Xperiment

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean, David King-Wood, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a forceful, misanthropic American scientist, the Q-1 had three astronauts aboard when it left Earth, but only one of them, engineer Victor Caroon Read More

Adventure in the Hopfields

Synopsis: Popular British juvenile star Mandy Miller carries the dramatic weight of Adventure in the Hopfields on her firm little shoulders. After breaking one of her mother's prize pieces of bric-a-brac, Miller must scrimp and save to pay for a replacement. A group of tough kids steal her money, tie her up Read More

Mandy

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan, Mandy Miller, Godfrey Tearle

Synopsis: Released in Britain as Crash of Silence, Mandy is a straightforward story about a handicapped child's efforts to adapt to a normal world. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. Her desperate parents enroll her in special education classes. It's a slow, uphill climb, but by film's end Read More