Asher Fleming is a recurring character on Season 4 of WB drama Gilmore Girls. He is portrayed by Michael York.
Character
Asher was a Yale professor and author, who developed a romantic relationship with Paris Geller. The two met through Richard Gilmore, because Asher and Richard went to school together. Despite the massive age difference, Paris and Asher had a serious relationship throughout Paris and Rory's freshman year of Yale. He died of a heart attack two weeks before Rory and Paris' sophomore year of Yale begins. (5.03) He was teaching a Shakespeare class in Oxford when he had the heart attack. He left Paris an eighteenth-century printing press, which she briefly stored in the common room she shared with Rory.