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William Asher is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 8 august 1921 at New York City (USA)
William Milton Asher (August 8, 1921 – July 16, 2012) was an American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series.
With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is hyperbolically credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom
Asher was nominated for an Emmy four times, winning once for directing Bewitched in 1966. He was also nominated for the DGA award in 1951 for I Love Lucy.
Avec la télévision à ses débuts, Asher a présenté la sitcom Our Miss Brooks , qui a été adapté à partir d'une émission de radio. Il a commencé à diriger I Love Lucy par 1952. À la suite de ses premiers succès, Asher a été considéré comme un "enfant prodige de la télévision".
Asher a été nominé quatre fois pour un Emmy Awards, et le remportant une fois pour la direction de Ma sorcière bien-aimée en 1966. Il a également été récompensé par la Directors Guild of America Awards en 1951 pour I Love Lucy . Il a été l'époux de l'actrice Elizabeth Montgomery entre 1963 et 1973, durant la période où il la dirigeait dans la série Ma sorcière bien-aimée. Le couple a eu trois enfants. Elizabeth Montgomery et William Asher resteront tout de même amis, après leur divorce.
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William Asher
Birth name William Milton Asher
Nationality USA
Birth 8 august 1921 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 july 2012 (at 90 years) at Palm Desert (USA)
Awards Emmy Award
Nationality USA
Birth 8 august 1921 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 july 2012 (at 90 years) at Palm Desert (USA)
Awards Emmy Award
With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is hyperbolically credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom
Asher was nominated for an Emmy four times, winning once for directing Bewitched in 1966. He was also nominated for the DGA award in 1951 for I Love Lucy.
Biography
Il était l' un des réalisateurs les plus prolifiques de télévision et a dirigé plus de deux douzaines de séries.Avec la télévision à ses débuts, Asher a présenté la sitcom Our Miss Brooks , qui a été adapté à partir d'une émission de radio. Il a commencé à diriger I Love Lucy par 1952. À la suite de ses premiers succès, Asher a été considéré comme un "enfant prodige de la télévision".
Asher a été nominé quatre fois pour un Emmy Awards, et le remportant une fois pour la direction de Ma sorcière bien-aimée en 1966. Il a également été récompensé par la Directors Guild of America Awards en 1951 pour I Love Lucy . Il a été l'époux de l'actrice Elizabeth Montgomery entre 1963 et 1973, durant la période où il la dirigeait dans la série Ma sorcière bien-aimée. Le couple a eu trois enfants. Elizabeth Montgomery et William Asher resteront tout de même amis, après leur divorce.
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Return to Green Acres (1990)
, 2hDirected by William Asher
Genres Comedy
Actors Eddie Albert, Frank Cady, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Mary Grace Canfield, Henry Gibson
Rating54%
Movers & Shakers (1988)
, 1h20Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Vincent Gardenia, Tyne Daly, Bill Macy, Gilda Radner
Rating42%
Hollywood studio mogul Joe Mulholland (Matthau) vows to produce the pet project of a dying acquaintance, who has been trying to find a way to make a film out of a best-selling sex manual. He and screenwriter Herb Derman (Grodin) try to make it happen, but fail in every possible way. Meanwhile, Herb is distracted by his own marital problems.
, 2hDirected by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Barbara Eden, Wayne Rogers, Bill Daily, Hayden Rorke, Mackenzie Astin, André De Shields
Rating55%
Jeannie has been a happily married housewife for 15 years to her astronaut husband Tony Nelson and has a teenage son, T.J. When Tony is promoted to Colonel and is about to retire from the NASA space program, Jeannie decides to give him a celebration party in their backyard. However, egged on by his colleagues to retire with a dramatic flair, Tony breaks his promise to Jeannie for one more space flight (aboard the shuttle), this time with a female astronaut, Captain Nelly Hunt.
, 1h36Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bill Paxton, Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis, Steve Eastin
Rating63%
Billy Lynch (Jimmy McNichol) is a high school student who has been raised by his aunt since age three, after his parents died in a violent car accident. His Aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrrell) is overly protective of her nephew. A gifted basketball player, Billy is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado, but Cheryl dismisses the idea, assuming that Billy will stay with her to "contribute." At school, Billy is bullied by one of his basketball teammates, Eddie (Bill Paxton), who is jealous of Billy's close friendship with their coach, Tom Landers (Steve Eastin), while Julia (Julia Duffy), the school's journalism photographer, begins to take romantic interest in Billy.
Fireball 500 (1966)
, 1h32Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian Forte, Chill Wills, Harvey Lembeck, Julie Parrish
Rating51%
Stock car racer "Fireball" Dave Owens from California goes to race in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he intends on competing against local champ Sonny Leander Fox. Dave beats Leander in a race, impressing the latter's girlfriend, Jane, and the wealthy Martha Brian.
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
, 1h38Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Musical films
Actors Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Deborah Walley, Jody McCrea
Rating56%
A singer, Sugar Kane (Linda Evans), is unwittingly being used for publicity stunts for her latest album by her agent (Paul Lynde), for example, faking a skydiving stunt, actually performed by Bonnie (Deborah Walley). Meanwhile, Frankie (Frankie Avalon), (duped into thinking he rescued Sugar Kane), takes up skydiving at Bonnie's prompting; she secretly wants to make her boyfriend Steve (John Ashley) jealous. This, of course, prompts Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) to also try free-falling. Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and his Malibu Rat Pack bikers also show up, with Von Zipper falling madly in love with Sugar Kane. To top all this, Bonehead (Jody McCrea) falls in love with a mermaid (Marta Kristen). Eventually, Von Zipper "puts the snatch" on Sugar Kane. The film takes a The Perils of Pauline-like twist, with the evil South Dakota Slim (Timothy Carey) kidnapping Sugar and tying her to a buzz-saw.
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
, 1h30Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, John Ashley
Rating48%
Frankie (Frankie Avalon) goes to Tahiti on Naval Reserve duty. While cavorting with local girls, Frankie realizes that Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) might be disloyal to him. When Frankie seeks help from a witch doctor (Buster Keaton), the witch doctor sends a sea beauty, Cassandra (Beverly Adams), to lure Ricky (Dwayne Hickman), an advertising exec, away from Dee Dee.
Bikini Beach (1964)
, 1h40Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Harvey Lembeck, Don Rickles
Rating54%
School is out and the teenagers head for the beach. All is well until millionaire Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III (Wynn) comes around, convinced that the beachgoers are so senselessly obsessed with sex that their mentality is below that of a primate – especially Honeywagon's wunderkind pet chimp Clyde, who can surf, drive, and watusi better than anyone on the beach. With the teenagers demoralized and discredited, Honeywagon plans to turn Bikini Beach into a senior citizens retirement home.
Muscle Beach Party (1964)
, 1h34Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors John Ashley, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, Don Rickles, Jody McCrea
Rating51%
Frankie, Dee Dee, and the beach party gang hit Malibu Beach for another summer of surfing and no jobs only to find their secret surfing spot threatened by a gang of bodybuilders, led by the dim-witted coach Jack Fanny (Don Rickles).
Beach Party (1963)
, 1h41Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Sports films, Surfing films
Actors Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Morey Amsterdam, Dick Miller
Rating51%
An anthropologist, Professor Robert Orville Sutwell is secretly studying the "wild mating habits" of Southern California teenagers who hang out at the beach and use strange surfing jargon. After he temporarily paralyzes Eric Von Zipper, the leader of the local outlaw motorcycle club, who was making unwanted advances on Dolores, she develops a crush on the Professor. Her surfing boyfriend Frankie becomes jealous and begins flirting with Ava, a Hungarian waitress. Meanwhile, Sutwell's assistant Marianne further develops her crush on the Professor. Von Zipper and his gang plot to bring down Sutwell, only to be thwarted in the end by the surfing teenagers.
Johnny Cool (1963)
, 1h43Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, Brad Dexter
Rating63%
Johnny Colini, an exiled American living in Rome, rescues Salvatore Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police. After Giordano is groomed, polished, and renamed "Johnny Cool," Colini sends him on a mission of vengeance to the United States to assassinate the men who plotted his downfall and enforced exile. Johnny arrives in New York and quickly kills several of the underworld figures on Colini's list.
The 27th Day (1957)
, 1h15Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Gene Barry, Valerie French, Jiří Voskovec, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln
Rating61%
Five people, Englishwoman Evelyn Wingate, American reporter Jonathan Clark, Chinese peasant Su Tan, German physicist Klaus Bechner, and Soviet soldier Ivan Godofsky, are randomly transported to an alien spacecraft in Earth orbit. There, they are met by a humanoid referring to himself only as "The Alien" (Arnold Moss), who explains that he is the representative of a world orbiting a sun about to go Nova. Needing a new world to inhabit within the next 35 days, yet prohibited by their moral code from killing intelligent life, The Alien provides each of the five with sets of three capsules in a clear, round, hand-held case. Each capsule is capable of destroying all human life within a 3,000-mile diameter, with the expectation that humanity will use all the capsules, obliterating itself, leaving the Earth free for alien colonization. The capsules' clear containers can only be opened by the thought waves of the person to whom they were given. Once out in the open, the capsules inside can then be used by anyone, but only during the next 27 days, after which they become inert.
The Shadow on the Window (1957)
, 1h16Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Philip Carey, Betty Garrett, John Drew Barrymore, Corey Allen, Eve McVeagh, Jerry Mathers
Rating60%
Upon seeing his mother Linda terrorized by three thugs, young Petey (Jerry Mathers) is traumatized and wanders off. Truck drivers find him and the boy is brought to police headquarters, where he is recognized as the son of detective Tony Atlas (Philip Carey).
Mobs, Inc. (1956)
, 1h2Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Reed Hadley, Lisa Howard, Marjorie Reynolds, Douglass Dumbrille, Don Haggerty, Will Geer
Rating32%
Leather Gloves (1948)
, 1h15Directed by Richard Quiney, William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Grey, Jane Nigh, Sam Levene, Blake Edwards, Henry O'Neill
Rating25%
Former boxer Dave Collins leaves the city to get away from his previous life to hide out in the southwest. He applies for a job in a sleepy old town and is immediately offered by bar owner Bernie, to fight the local champ, Vince Reedy. The prize if he wins is $200.