Anthony Asquith (1902-1968), Film director; youngest son of Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Sitter associated with 29 portraits
Anthony Asquith was a film director. Born in London, he was the son of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War I, and Margot Asquith. His first successful film was Pygmalion (1938) based on the George Bernard Shaw play. His later films included The Winslow Boy (1948), The Browning Version (1951), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). The last two starred Michael Redgrave. All three were remade in subsequent years.
Anthony Asquith; Sylvester Govett Gates; Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson; Charles Percy Sanger
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Anthony Asquith
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Philip and Julian with Garsington visitors
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922-1923
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Walter James Redfern Turner; Anthony Asquith; Charles Percy Sanger; Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Anthony Asquith; Sylvester Govett Gates
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy; Anthony Asquith; Sylvester Govett Gates
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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Anthony Asquith; Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence)
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, late 1920s
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by Bassano
whole-plate glass negative, 17 September 1927
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by Bassano
whole-plate glass negative, 17 September 1927
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by Bassano
whole-plate glass negative, 17 September 1927
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1st Earl and Countess of Oxford and Asquith with Anthony Asquith
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1928
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by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1935
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by Rolf Mahrenholz
cream-toned vintage bromide print, 1940s
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by Lotte Meitner-Graf
bromide print, 1950s
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by Cornel Lucas
bromide fibre print on card mount, 1950s
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Rex Harrison; Anthony Asquith on the set of 'The Yellow Rolls-Royce'
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1964
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Asquith
Related People
Elizabeth (née Asquith), Princess Bibesco (sister)
Ralouka ('Rachel') Bibesco-Bassaraba (née Musurus), Princess de Brancovan (niece)
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (father)
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith (mother)
Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Bt (grandfather)
Category
Film and Broadcasting
Royalty, Rulers and Aristocracy
Places
London
Oxfordshire
