Anthony Asquith
(1902-1968), Film directorSitter associated with 31 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.
by Helen Wilson
crayon, 1930
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Anthony Asquith; Sylvester Govett Gates; Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson; Charles Percy Sanger
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Julian 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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Bob 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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'Sunday Afternoon' (Lord David Cecil; T.S. Eliot)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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Lord David Cecil; L.P. Hartley; Virginia Woolf; Anthony Asquith; Sylvester Govett Gates
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
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, late 1920s
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by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 17 September 1927
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by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 17 September 1927
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by Bassano Ltd
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 (Ernest) Cyril Stanborough
bromide print, 1930s
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Related People
- Elizabeth (née Asquith), Princess Bibesco (sister)
- Ralouka ('Rachel') Bibesco-Bassaraba (née Musurus), Princess de Brancovan (niece)
- Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith (mother)
- Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (father)
- Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Bt (grandfather)
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