Robert Asher(1915-1979)
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Production Manager
British director Robert Asher began his film career in 1934 as an
assistant director, and in that capacity worked with such directors as
Roy Ward Baker and
Anthony Pelissier. He became a
director in 1959 with the Norman Wisdom
comedy Follow a Star (1959). He and
Wisdom were a good team, and Asher shot several more Wisdom comedies
before making his last one with the comedian,
Press for Time (1966). By this
time film projects were harder and harder for Asher to come by, and he
turned to television, directing episodes of such fondly remembered
shows as Patrick McGoohan's classic
The Prisoner (1967).
