Jack Asher

Nascimento : 1916-03-29, London, England, UK

Filmes

The Early Bird
Cinematography
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
The Intelligence Men
Cinematography
A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
The Secret of Blood Island
Cinematography
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
A Stitch in Time
Director of Photography
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
O Cavaleiro Audaz
Director of Photography
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
She'll Have to Go
Director of Photography
When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married...
She'll Have to Go
Producer
When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married...
Norman, O Marujo Maluco
Cinematography
Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
O Monstro de Duas Faces
Director of Photography
Londres, 1874. Henry Jekyll (Paul Massie) é um dedicado pesquisador que há 6 anos está casado com Kitty (Dawn Addams), mas lhe dá pouca atenção. Com isso ela se apaixonou por Paul Allen (Christopher Lee), o maior amigo de Jekyll. Paralelamente Henry desenvolve uma fórmula que faz vir à tona o lado negro de cada ser e, ao aplicar em si esta droga, Jekyll se altera não só psicologicamente como fisicamente. Logo ele está na Sphinx, uma casa noturna cara mas de má reputação. Lá encontra Kitty e Paul, que conversam com ele. Logo Jekyll está dançando com Kitty, que não imagina que este desconhecido que diz se chamar Edward Hyde é o seu marido, que ela tanto evita. Este encontro marca o início de várias tragédias.
As Noivas do Vampiro
Director of Photography
Marianne Danielle está viajando pelo Leste Europeu a fim de assumir o cargo de professora de francês em uma escola para moças na Transilvânia, agora livre da ameaça do Conde Drácula. Ela não é muito bem recebida pelos locais e acaba sendo acomodada no castelo da Baronesa Meinster, onde conhece o filho da nobre, que vive acorrentado à parede. Com pena do jovem, Marianne decide libertá-lo sem desconfiar que ele é um vampiro. Para sorte dela, o Doutor Van Helsing está por perto e promete por fim à vida de mais esse ser das trevas.
A Múmia
Director of Photography
Egito, 1895. Três arqueologistas britânicos, John Banning (Peter Cushing), Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) e Joseph Whemple (Raymond Hutley), descobrem o túmulo de uma princesa egípcia, Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux), que morreu há quatro mil anos. Sem imaginar o que realmente fazia, Stephen lê o "Pergaminho da Vida". Isto faz voltar a vida Kharis (Christopher Lee), o guardião da tumba, que recebe a ajuda de Mehemet Bey (George Pastell), um egípcio que não aceita o túmulo ter sido profanado por "infiéis". Três anos depois, Mehemet leva para a Inglaterra Kharis, que terá a missão de matar os três arqueólogos que lideraram a expedição que achou a tumba de Ananka.
O Homem Que Enganou a Morte
Director of Photography
Um artista e cientista centenário em uma Paris de 1890 mantém sua juventude e saúde substituindo periodicamente uma glândula de seu corpo pela de uma pessoa viva.
O Cão dos Baskervilles
Director of Photography
Peter Cushing é um perfeito Sherlock Holmes e André Morell um perfeito Dr Watson, neste clássico de mistério e terror, que conta também com a interpretação da lenda do horror Christopher Lee. Com envolventes interpretações e cinematografia assustadora, este excelente filme de grande qualidade, vai mantê-lo na expectativa - e ofegante - até à última imagem! Um mal demoníaco esconde-se num manto de névoa nos pântanos que povoam as lendas inglesas. Na forma de um cão infernal, ele alimenta-se da carne dos herdeiros do Palácio dos Baskervilles. Mas antes desta besta selvagem poder ferrar os dentes no novo dono da mansão, tem que colocar as suas malévolas mandíbulas no astuto intelecto do mais poderoso inimigo que alguma vez encontrou - o incomparável Sherlock Holmes.
Follow a Star
Cinematography
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Passaporte para a Vergonha
Director of Photography
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
Suicídio ou Assassinato?
Director of Photography
Embora a polícia tenha chamado a morte de sua mãe como suicídio, uma adolescente acredita que seu padrasto a assassinou.
A Vingança de Frankenstein
Director of Photography
O Barão Frankenstein foge da execução na guilhotina e usa o pseudônimo Dr. Stein para abrir sua clínica na Alemanha. Lá, recomeça seus experimentos com cadáveres, mas um de seus pacientes tem um destino diferente do que Stein planejou.
O Vampiro da Noite
Director of Photography
Jonnathan Harker morre aparentemente vítima de um vampiro. Ao investigar a misteriosa morte do amigo, Van Helsing encontra um diário que incrimina o Conde Drácula. Mas Lucy, a prometida de Harker, também foi atacada por um vampiro. O irmão e a cunhada da moça se unem a Van Helsing para capturar a sanguinária criatura.
The Camp on Blood Island
Director of Photography
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
The Steel Bayonet
Director of Photography
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
After the Ball
Cinematography
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
A Maldição de Frankenstein
Director of Photography
O Barão Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) descobre uma maneira de enganar a morte. Para testar sua descoberta, monta um corpo com pedaços de diferentes cadáveres. O resultado é uma criatura sem nome, irracional e sedenta de morte. Ciência ou loucura?"
O Céu ao Seu Alcance
Director of Photography
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
A Sombra do Pecado
Director of Photography
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
The Secret
Director of Photography
An American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear, but unfortunately, things quickly get out of hand.
Before I Wake
Director of Photography
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
The Young Lovers
Director of Photography
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
Os Bons Morrem Cedo
Director of Photography
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Fast and Loose
Director of Photography
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
Albert R.N.
Cinematography
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
All Hallowe'en
Cinematography
A woman falls in love with a ghost on All Hallows Eve.
Grand National Night
Director of Photography
The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.
Cosh Boy
Director of Photography
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
Women of Twilight
Director of Photography
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
A Killer Walks
Cinematography
Psychological thriller about an odd family with Harvey playing the older domineering son, who resents both his overbearing grandmother and his younger brother. Before long, the old woman ends up dead—murdered. Fingers point strongly to one suspect, but is he really guilty?
Girdle of Gold
Director of Photography
The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.
Hell Is Sold Out
Cinematography
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
Lilli Marlene
Director of Photography
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
The Astonished Heart
Director of Photography
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
The Lost People
Director of Photography
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
Helter Skelter
Cinematography
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Portrait from Life
Director of Photography
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
Tragédia nos Alpes
Camera Operator
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
Easy Money
Director of Photography
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
The Magic Bow
Cinematography
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Time Flies
Camera Operator
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Back-Room Boy
Camera Operator
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Hyde Park Corner
Camera Operator
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.