Anthony Asquith

Anthony Asquith

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 8-12. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Buried in family plot in the church yard of Sutton Coutenay, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Directed 3 actors to Oscar nominations: Leslie Howard (Best Actor, Pygmalion (1938)), Wendy Hiller (Best Actress, Pygmalion (1938)), and Margaret Rutherford (Best Supporting Actress, The V.I.P.s (1963)). Rutherford won an Oscar for her performance.

Doubled in blonde wig for Phyllis Neilson-Terry in Boadicea (1928).

His half-sister, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, was the grandmother of Helena Bonham Carter.



Son of H.H. Asquith, the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British WWI Prime Minister.


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