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Anthony Asquith
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His half-sister, Lady
Violet Bonham Carter
, was the grandmother of
Helena Bonham Carter
.
Directed 3 actors to Oscar nominations:
Leslie Howard
(Best Actor,
Pygmalion (1938)
),
Wendy Hiller
(Best Actress,
Pygmalion (1938)
), and
Margaret Rutherford
(Best Supporting Actress,
The V.I.P.s (1963)
). Rutherford won an Oscar for her performance.
Son of
H.H. Asquith
, the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British WWI Prime Minister.
Doubled in blonde wig for
Phyllis Neilson-Terry
in
Boadicea (1927)
.
Mother was a leading society figure, Margot Tennant.
Buried in family plot in the church yard of Sutton Coutenay, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 8-12. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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