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Irving Asher (1903–1985) was an American film producer. Born in San Francisco in September 1903, he began his film production career in Hollywood in 1919. After joining the staff of Warner Brothers he was sent over to England as the managing director of their subsidiary Teddington Studios in Middlesex in the mid 1930s (where he is credited for discovering and seeing the potential of Errol Flynn when he was a young unknown actor who was hanging around Teddington Studios at the time looking for a way into the movies). Flynn played his first significant part as the lead in the now-lost Murder at Monte Carlo (1935), which was produced by Asher. Asher went on to join Alexander Korda's London Film Productions where he worked on the epic The Four Feathers (1939). Subsequently he returned to Hollywood to work as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he earned his only Academy Award nomination for the 1941 Greer Garson film Blossoms in the Dust.
Later in his career, he was head of production for 20th Century Fox Television.
He married the actress Laura La Plante in 1934.
Asher died in California in March 1985.
Filmography
all 56
Movies 53
Producer 52
TV Shows 3
Director 2
self 1
Writer 1
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler (1983)
Man Without a Gun (1957)
Broken Arrow (1956)
Elephant Walk (1954)
The Turning Point (1952)
Here Comes the Groom (1951)
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
Nazi Agent (1942)
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Billy the Kid (1941)
Ten Days in Paris (1940)
The Spy in Black (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Q Planes (1939)
Thank Evans (1938)
You Live and Learn (1937)
Don't Get Me Wrong (1937)
Educated Evans (1936)
The Brown Wallet (1936)
Where's Sally? (1936)
Faithful (1936)
The Black Mask (1935)
Get Off My Foot (1935)
Man of the Moment (1935)
Crime Unlimited (1935)
So You Won't Talk (1935)
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935)
The Blue Squadron (1934)
The Church Mouse (1934)
This Acting Business (1933)
I Adore You (1933)
The Bermondsey Kid (1933)
Her Imaginary Lover (1933)
Mayfair Girl (1933)
High Finance (1933)
As Good as New (1933)
Her Night Out (1932)
Lucky Ladies (1932)
The Silver Greyhound (1932)
High Society (1932)
Illegal (1932)
Help Yourself (1932)
The Aviator (1931)
A Notorious Affair (1930)
The Aviator (1929)
Below the Line (1925)
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GenderMale
Birthday1903-09-16
Deathday1985-03-17 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, California, USA
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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