Career
Born in San Francisco in September 1903, he began his film production career in Hollywood in 1919. After joining the staff of Warner Brothers he was sent over to England as the managing director of their subsidiary Teddington Studios in Middlesex in the mid 1930s (where he is credited for discovering and seeing the potential of Errol Flynn when he was a young unknown actor who was hanging around Teddington Studios at the time looking for a way into the movies). Flynn played his first significant part as the lead in the now-lost, which was produced by Asher.
Asher went on to join Alexander Korda"s London Film Productions where he worked on the epic The Four Feathers (1939).
Later in his career, he was head of production for 20th Century Fox Television. Asher died in California in March 1985.
Trouble in Store - short.