John Asher

John Asher

director, actor, writer

John Asher was born on Jan 13, 1971 in USA. John Asher's big-screen debut came with Return to Green Acres directed by William Asher in 1990, strarring Chill. John Asher is known for The 716th directed by Andrew Bowen, John Asher stars as Ash and Andrew Bowen as Doc. The most recent award John Asher achieved is San Diego Film Festival. The upcoming new movie John Asher plays is Me Too Nice which will be released on Nov 11, 2020.

John is an award winning writer/director who spent his early life breaking his dad's video cameras trying to get an epic shot. He always wanted to be a director, to tell stories in images, probably because dyslexia made it so difficult for him to tell them in words. But children don't have many directing opportunities, so John became an actor, and used every job he had as a chance to watch directors. His four years on Weird Science were his film school.He directed his first film at age 25-Kounterfeit (1996), starring Oscar winner Hillary Swank. He followed that with Chick Flick (1998), then the Miramax film, Diamonds (1999), starring Kirk Douglas and Dan Aykroyd. All before his 30th birthday. In 2005 his film Dirty Love premiered at Sundance.Branching out into TV, John directed the Showtime series, Going to California (2001), and the hit CW series, One Tree Hill (2006), as well as several LIVE comedy specials including Margaret Cho: PsyCHO (Showtime), Sebastian Maniscalco: Aren't You Embarrassed (Showtime), and Ralphie May: Unruly (Netflix).In 2013 John returned to directing films with the innovative Somebody Marry Me (2013), the first romantic comedy feature shot in one continuous take. (No cuts! Yes, really!) John continued challenging himself creatively and visually with A Boy Called Po (2016). The story is both the family's journey with autism, and the inner journey of the child's mind, and it is John's most personal and important project to date. His son Evan has autism and is John's biggest influence, both personally and professionally.In 2017, John wrote and directed TOOKEN, the over the top spoof lampooning the Taken franchise, starring Margaret Cho. In 2019 he directed the family comedy I Hate Kids.

  • Birthday

    Jan 13, 1971
  • Place of Birth

    Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Also known

    John Mallory Asher

Known For

Awards

6 wins & 0 nominations

San Diego Film Festival
2016
Breakthrough Feature
Winner - Festival Award
WorldFest Houston
2016
Best Film
Winner - Special Jury Award
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