Jane Asher
Born	April 5, 1946 (1946-04-05) (age 61) Marylebone, London, England
Spouse(s)	Gerald Scarfe 1981-present
Official site	Jane-Asher.co.uk

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Biography

Early life

Jane Asher was the second of three children to Dr. Richard and Margaret Asher, née Eliot in Marylebone, London. Her mother was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; her older brother was Peter Asher, one half of the duo Peter & Gordon; her younger sister was the radio actress Clare Asher. Sir Richard Alan John Asher, MD, FRCP (Brighton 3 April 1912 – Marylebone 25 April 1969) was the physician at the Central Middlesex Hospital, who gave the name Munchausen syndrome to the disease in a 1951 article in The Lancet. ... Margaret Augusta Eliot (born 26 February 1914) was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. ... The French word née (feminine) or né (masculine) (or the English word nee) is still commonly used in some newspapers when mentioning the maiden name of a woman in engagement or wedding announcements. ... Marylebone (sometimes written St. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in the City of London, UK. The first Guildhall School was housed in an old warehouse in Aldermanbury, but these premises soon proved too small. ... Peter Asher (born on June 22, 1944 in London, England) is a guitarist, singer and record producer. ... Peter & Gordon were a British Invasion-era performing duo, formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, that rocketed to fame in 1964 with A World Without Love. Peter Ashers sister (the actress Jane Asher) was dating Paul McCartney (of The Beatles), and so Peter & Gordon recorded several songs written...

Asher's first appearance as a child actress was as Nina in the 1952 film Mandy. Other film appearances were the 1955 science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment, and, co-starring with Kenneth More and Susannah York, in the 1961 UK film The Greengage Summer, which was subsequently released in the United States under the title "Loss of Innocence.". She also appeared as her distant relative Lady Jane Grey in the 1962 film and Disney TV programme, "The Prince and the Pauper". British TV appearances included 3 episodes (1956–1958) of the British TV series, The Adventures of Robin Hood (working alongside her brother Peter), and as a panelist on the BBC's Juke Box Jury. The term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor. ... -1... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... The 1955 advertising poster for the films UK release. ... Kenneth Gilbert More CBE, (20 September 1914 - 12 July 1982) was a successful British cinema, television and theatre actor. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... The Greengage Summer/Lost Innocence (US title) (1961) GB 1 hr 39 min colour Comedy/romantic comedy Directed by Lewis Gilbert Cast Screenplay Rumer Godden, Howard Koch Book: Rumer Godden (Novel, The Greengage Summer) Photographer: Freddie Young Kenneth More (Eliot) Danielle Darrieux (Madame Zisi) Susannah York (Joss Grey) Claude Nollier... Lady Jane Grey, formally Jane of England (1537 – February 12, 1554), a grand-niece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days in July 1553. ... The Prince and the Pauper is an 1882 book by Mark Twain that represents his first attempt at historical fiction. ... The Adventures of Robin Hood was a popular, long-running British television series (143 half-hour, black and white episodes, 1955–1960) starring Richard Greene as Robin Hood. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation,which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Juke Box Jury was a pop themed panel show, originally produced by BBC television from 1959-1967. ...

Relationship with Paul McCartney

In 1963, Asher interviewed The Beatles. A photographer for the BBC's Radio Times asked them to pose with Asher ^[1]. Asher subsequently commenced a five-year relationship with Paul McCartney (they became engaged in 1967^[2]). She inspired many of McCartney's songs, such as "Here, There and Everywhere", "I'm Looking Through You", "You Won't See Me", "We Can Work It Out", "And I Love Her", and "For No One" (all credited as Lennon/McCartney). Lennon/McCartney penned the number one hit "A World Without Love" for her brother Peter. The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Current Radio Times logo Radio Times is the BBCs weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award– and Grammy Award–winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... Here, There and Everywhere is a song by Paul McCartney (though credited to Lennon-McCartney), recorded for The Beatles 1966 album Revolver. ... Im Looking Through You is a Lennon-McCartney song, written mainly by Paul McCartney, that first appeared on The Beatles 1965 album and the tenth song of Rubber Soul. ... You Wont See Me is a song by the British 60s rock group The Beatles, on the album Rubber Soul. ... We Can Work It Out is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon and released by The Beatles as a double A-sided single with Day Tripper. The song is a classic instance of true Lennon-McCartney collaboration, its authors meeting more closely in a single song only... And I Love Her is a song by The Beatles and is the fifth track on their third album, A Hard Days Night. ... For No One is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) that originally appeared on The Beatles seventh album, Revolver. ... The songwriting credit Lennon/McCartney appears on all Beatles songs that were written by John Lennon and/or Paul McCartney without the aid of the other two Beatles, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... REDIRECT[[]]A World Without Love was a chart-topping song written by Lennon/McCartney (Northern Songs Ltd. ... Peter Asher (born on June 22, 1944 in London, England) is a guitarist, singer and record producer. ...

McCartney wrote several Beatles songs in the Ashers' house. He wrote in a room usually used for music lessons. The Asher house was also a place of intellectual stimulation for McCartney. He enjoyed the rarefied atmosphere of upper-middle class conversation and company that the house afforded, and to which he aspired.^[3] According to Cynthia Lennon, McCartney was "as proud as a peacock" to have Jane as a girlfriend,^[4] and saw her as "a great prize."^[5] Marianne Faithfull remembered McCartney and Asher "never getting on very well," and described one evening at Cavendish Avenue when McCartney wanted a window to be open and Asher wanted it shut. McCartney would repeatedly get up and open the window and then Asher would get up and close it, although neither of them made any comment about it during the whole evening.^[6] McCartney did not stop having one-night stands with other women during his time with Asher,^[7] because he felt that since they were not married, it was allowed.^[7] Their relationship was reportedly ended by McCartney in mid-1968. To this day, Ms. Asher is very sensitive about her relationship with Mr. McCartney and she refuses to discuss McCartney or her time with him. ^[8] On this basis, she is described by the Beatles' 1968 biographer Hunter Davies as the only major Beatles associate not to have published her recollections. Cynthia Lillian Lennon née Powell (born September 10, 1939) in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. ... Peacock re-directs here; for alternate uses see Peacock (disambiguation). ... Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress whose career spans over four decades. ... Look up one-night stand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Hunter Davies (born 7 January 1936) is a prolific British author, journalist and broadcaster, best known for his books about The Beatles. ...

Acting

Asher appeared in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death in 1964, Alfie, opposite Michael Caine in 1966, and in Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End in 1970. Thereafter, she was more commonly seen on television: The Stone Tape (1972); Rumpole of the Bailey (1978); Brideshead Revisited (1981); as Faith Ashley in Wish Me Luck (three series in 1987–89); The Mistress (1985–87); Crossroads Mark III (2003) as hotel owner Angel Samson. Although the series was unpopular with die-hard Crossroads fans, and only lasted a matter of months, the sharp-tongued wit of Mrs Samson and brilliant acting from Asher made the part a huge success. Roger Corman. ... The Masque of the Red Death is a classic 1964 horror film, directed by Roger Corman, based on the short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1842. ... Alfie is a 1966 film starring Michael Caine. ... Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning British film actor. ... Jerzy Skolimowski (b. ... Deep End is a 1970 movie directed by Jerzy Skolimowski featuring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. ... The opening title sequence. ... Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by British writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer, QC and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients. ... Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ... Wish Me Luck is a British television drama about the exploits of British women agents during the Second World War. ... The Mistress was a British sitcom starring Felicity Kendal that aired for two series from 1985 to 1987. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

She guest starred in an episode of the British television comedy series The Goodies in the episode "Punky Business", as a trend setting newspaper writer, patterned on the punk journalist Caroline Coon. In 1994, she portrayed the Doctor Who companion Susan Foreman in a BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?. Another notable radio appearance was in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 2002, in the episode "The Peculiar Persecution of Mr John Vincent Harden". The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ... Caroline Coon is a British artist, journalist and political activist, born in 1945. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme (and a 1996 television film) produced by the BBC. The series shows the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In... Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Whatever Happened to . ... The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a series of radio dramas based on Arthur Conan Doyles detective Sherlock Holmes. ...

Marriage and later career

Asher met the illustrator Gerald Scarfe in 1971, and they married ten years later. They have three children (Katie, Alex and Rory). Gerald Scarfe (born 1936) is a British cartoonist and illustrator whose work is characterised by an apparent obsession with the grotesque and diseased, perhaps a result of an asthmatic, bed-ridden childhood. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ...

Now well known as the author of recipe books, Asher runs a company making party cakes and sugarcrafts for special occasions, and still acts on television and in the theatre. In 2006 Asher starred in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, which aired on the British digital television station BBC Four. Starting 24th April 2007, Asher will appear in BBC medical Drama, Holby City as Lady Byrne. An example recipe, printed from the Wikibooks Cookbook. ... Main title caption for A For Andromeda A for Andromeda is the title of a 1961 British television drama series and novel by astronomer Fred Hoyle and author and TV producer John Elliot, and a 2006 television remake. ... Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals used by analog (traditional) TV. DTV uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set, or a... BBC Four Ident BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began on March 2, 2002 – its first evenings programmes being simulcast on BBC Two. ...

She is a shareholder in Private Eye, President of Arthritis Care and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. She is also President of the National Autistic Society, in which she takes an active role. She was also a speaker at the launch of the National Autistic Society's "Make School Make Sense" campaign along side Joshua Muggleton (ASD speaker/writer). She is also President of the Parkinson's Disease Society. She has been one of the most striking examples of a rare but true 'strawberry blonde'. Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio... The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism. ... The National Autistic Society (NAS) is the United Kingdoms most prominent autism-related charity. ... Strawberry blonde is A light reddish-blonde or orange hair color A 1941 film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rita Hayworth and James Cagney. ...

Notes

1. ^ Miles. p102.
2. ^ "McCartney's lament: I can't buy your love", Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June 2004 (link)
3. ^ Bob Spitz, "The Beatles"
4. ^ Lennon (1978)
5. ^ Miles. p103.
6. ^ Miles. p453.
7. ^ ^{a b} Miles. pp142-143
8. ^ "Butter wouldn't melt", The Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2005 (link)

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References

• Lennon, Cynthia (June 1978). A Twist of Lennon. London: Star Books. ISBN 0-352-30196-1. 
• Lennon, Cynthia (September 2005). John. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-89511-X. 
• Miles, Barry (October 1997). Many Years from Now. London: Secker & Warburg. ISBN 0-436-28022-1. 
• Spitz, Bob (November 2005). The Beatles: The Biography. London: Aurum Press. ISBN 0-316-80352-9. 

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External links

• Jane-Asher.co.uk - Jane Asher's official website
• Jane Asher at the Internet Movie Database
• CNdb - Jane Asher at CNdb