Irving Asher

Executive, Producer

About

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Birth Place

California, USA

Born

September 16, 1903

Died

March 17, 1985

Filmography

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A Notorious Affair (1930)

Assistant Director

Below the Line (1925)

Assistant Director

Elephant Walk (1954)

The Stars Are Singing (1953)

The Turning Point (1952)

Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Associate Producer

Photos & Videos

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Spy In Black, The (a.k.a. U-Boat 29) -- (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Know Him By Sight?

Spy In Black, The (a.k.a. U-Boat 29) -- (Movie Clip) A German Spy Would Give His Head

Family & Companions

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Laura LaPlante

Wife

Actor.

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

A Notorious Affair (1930)

Assistant Director

Below the Line (1925)

Assistant Director

Producer (Feature Film)

Elephant Walk (1954)

The Stars Are Singing (1953)

The Turning Point (1952)

Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Associate Producer

The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)

Sabotage Agent (1943)

The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)

Tennessee Johnson (1942)

Nazi Agent (1942)

Mr. & Mrs. North (1942)

Billy the Kid (1941)

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Clouds over Europe (1939)

U-Boat 29 (1939)

Prison Without Bars (1939)

Associate Producer

The Four Feathers (1939)

Associate Producer

Simply Terrific (1938)

Thank Evans (1938)

Quiet Please (1938)

Double or Quits (1938)

The Viper (1938)

You Live And Learn (1937)

Side Street Angel (1937)

It's Not Cricket (1937)

The Man Who Made Diamonds (1937)

The Perfect Crime (1937)

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1936)

Executive Producer

Twelve Good Men (1936)

Crown v. Stevens (1936)

Fair Exchange (1936)

Head Office (1936)

Educated Evans (1936)

It's in the Bag (1936)

Get Off My Foot (1935)

Mr. What's-His-Name (1935)

Crime Unlimited (1935)

A Glimpse of Paradise (1934)

Leave It to Blanche (1934)

Big Business (1934)

What's in a Name? (1934)

Too Many Millions (1934)

Murder at Monte Carlo (1934)

No Escape (1934)

Something Always Happens (1934)

Executive Producer

Call Me Mame (1933)

The Bermondsey Kid (1933)

The Silver Greyhound (1932)

Her Night Out (1932)

L'aviateur (1931)

Life Events

Videos

Spy In Black, The (a.k.a. U-Boat 29) -- (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Know Him By Sight? German fleet headquarters at Kiel, 1917, Conrad Veidt as Captain Hardt, arriving from 16 days on the sub with aide Schuster (Marius Goring), taking disappointments relayed by the concierge (Bernard Miles) in stride, from the first scene in Michael Powell’s The Spy In Black (a.k.a U-Boat 29), 1939.

Spy In Black, The (a.k.a. U-Boat 29) -- (Movie Clip) A German Spy Would Give His Head Valerie Hobson is a German spy in the Ornkney Islands of Scotland, 1917, posing as the new schoolteacher, as German submarine captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt) approaches by motorbike, together tricking the local constable (Grant Sutherland), in Michael Powell’s The Spy In Black (a.k.a U-Boat 29), 1939.

Spy In Black, The (a.k.a. U-Boat 29) -- (1939) -- (Movie Clip) A Traitor And A Drunkard Scotland, 1917, German submarine captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt) is the guest of Valerie Hobson, a German spy posing as the new schoolmistress, about to introduce him to the traitor Ashington (Sebastian Shaw) and plans to sink the British fleet, in Michael Powell’s The Spy In Black (a.k.a U-Boat 29), 1939.

Spy In Black, The (a.k.a. U-Boat 29) -- (1939) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Have To Take The Hearse Brilliant bit by director Michael Powell, working for the first time with screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, teacher Anne (June Duprez) thinks her trip to Scotland is being saved by a wealthy traveler (Helen Haye) and her chauffeur (Valerie Hobson), who are really German spies, in The Spy In Black (a.k.a U-Boat 29), 1939.

Sabotage Agent (1943) -- (Movie Clip) The Patient Died London, 1940, early in the blitz, demolition expert Captain Stevenson (Robert Donat) arrives as an unexploded bomb threatens an injured lad (Maurice Rhodes) and nurse (Josephine Wilson), opening Sabotage Agent, 1943, a.k.a. The Adventures Of Tartu, from the MGM British studio.

Sabotage Agent (1943) -- (Movie Clip) An Officer But Not A Gentleman Romanian-born Brit Stevenson (Robert Donat) dropped into Bucharest on an espionage mission, contacts Wakefield (Charles Carson) and is briefed on his identity and the scheme to blow up a poison gas factory in Czechoslovakia, in Sabotage Agent, 1943, a.k.a. The Adventures Of Tartu.

Billy The Kid (1941) -- (Movie Clip) He Don't Look So Tough Robert Taylor (title character) has just busted Pedro (Frank Puglia) and others out of jail, now in the saloon earning the attention of crooked cattle man Hickey (Gene Lockhart), who offers a job, early in MGM's Taylor-toughening Billy The Kid, 1941.

Billy The Kid (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Back In Silver City Robert Taylor (title character) on his first evening on the job, stampeding the competition's cattle, runs into an old friend, Brian Donlevy as "Jim Sherwood," on the other side, manly material early in MGM's Billy The Kid, 1941.

Crown V. Stevens (1936) -- (Movie Clip) No Harm In Saying Hello Director Michael Powell's opening, leading man Patric Knowles as "Chris," Mabel Poulton as "Mamie" and Billy Watts as leering "Joe," from one of what the director called his "quota quickies" made for the Warner Bros' subsidiary Teddington Studios, Crown V. Stevens, 1936.

Crown V. Stevens (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Char Woman Found Him Innocent Chris (Patric Knowles) is about to seek mercy from a Notting Hill money lender whom he is surprised to find dead, as-yet nameless Doris (Beatrix Thomson) hefting the smoking gun, police (Bernard Miles supporting Allan Jeayes) investigating afterward, in director Michael Powell's Crown V. Stevens, 1936.

Crown V. Stevens (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Any Man You Wanted Some noteworthy choices by director Michael Powell, as unhappy wife Doris (Beatrix Thomson), whom we know has committed a maybe-justified murder, receives old chorus-line pal Ella (Googie Withers), Davina Craig and Frederick Piper her maid and husband, in the low-budget Crown V. Stevens, 1936.

Elephant Walk -- (Movie Clip) Poisonous Snakes Peter Finch, playing "John Wiley," narrates the opening, introducing his wife-to-be Ruth (Elizabeth Taylor) and her fussy customer (Norma Varden), in Paramount's Elephant Walk, 1954, also starring Dana Andrews.

Companions

Laura LaPlante

Wife

Actor.

Bibliography

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