And Furthermore (28 page)

I am eternally grateful to all my friends and colleagues in the profession who have made my career such a happy and fulfilling one; many of them are named in these pages, and to the many others who are not I proffer my apologies as well as my thanks. Sadly some of them are no longer with us, and I miss them all.

For their permission to quote them, my particular thanks to John Moffatt for his poem, to David Hare for his letter, and to Trevor Nunn for his Address at my husband Michael’s funeral. I am also grateful to John Miller for his help, not least in checking many of the details against my occasionally patchy memory. I would like to express my thanks to Ion Trewin for inviting me to write this book, for his patience when I hesitated about seeing it through to completion, and for his meticulous editing of the manuscript.

Finally, I must pay special tribute to my daughter Finty and my grandson Sammy for all their love and support, and to whom I have dedicated
And Furthermore.

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Absolute Hell
(Ackland)

Academy Awards
see
Oscars

Achard, Marcel,
A Shot in the Dark

Ackland, Rodney,
Absolute Hell

Adams, Polly

Affleck, Ben

Africa, Nottingham Playhouse Company tour

Albert Hall, London

Albery Theatre, London

Alchemist, The
(Jonson)

Alderton, John

Aldridge, Michael

Aldwych Theatre, London

Alice in Wonderland
(Carroll)

All’s Well That Ends Well

American Shakespeare Guild, John Gielgud Award

Amy’s View
(Hare)

Anderson, Mary

Andrews, Harry

Annis, Francesca

Anouilh, Jean,
Romeo and Jeannette

Antony and Cleopatra

Apocalypse Now
(film)

Apollo Theatre, London

Apted, Michael

Arbuzov, Aleksei:
The Promise
;
The Twelfth Hour

Argyll, Margaret, Duchess of

Arms and the Man
(Shaw)

As Time Goes By
(TV series)

Ashcroft, Dame Peggy;
Antony and Cleopatra
;
The Cherry Orchard
;
Cymbeline
;
The Duchess of Malfi
;
The Importance of Being Earnest

Asherson, Renée

Astrakhan Coat, The
(Macaulay)

Atkins, Dame Eileen

Attenborough, Michael

Aubrey, John,
Brief Lives

Australia, RSC tour

Ayckbourn, Sir Alan,
A Small Family Business

BAFTA: awards; fellowship

Baker, George

Balcon, Jill

Banderas, Antonio

Bangkok

Bannerman, Celia

Barber, Frances

Barber, John

Barbican, London

Barrie, J.M.,
Peter Pan

Barrit, Desmond

Barton, John

Baxter, Keith

Bayley, John

Belfast

Belfrage, Julian

Belfrage, Victoria ‘Tor’

Bell, Joshua

Bennett, Arnold,
Clayhanger

Benthall, Michael

Berry, Cicely

Binoche, Juliet

Birmingham Rep Studio

Birt, John

Birtwistle, Sue

Blanchett, Cate

Blatchley, John

Blessed, Brian

Blick, Newton

Bloom, Claire

Blythe, Peter

Boddington, Diana

Bond, Edward,
The Sea

Bond, Philip

Bond, Samantha

Bonham Carter, Helena

Bonneville, Hugh

Boucicault, Dion,
London Assurance

Boundy, Neville

Bowles, Peter

Boys from Syracuse, The
(musical)

Brahms, Caryl

Branagh, Kenneth;
Coriolanus
;
Ghosts
;
Henry V
;
Ivanov
;
King Lear
;
Look Back in Anger
;
Much Ado About Nothing

Brando, Marlon

Breath of Life, The
(Hare)

Brebner, Veronica

Brecht, Bertolt,
Mother Courage

Bree, James

Bretherton, Philip

Brief Lives
(Aubrey)

Briers, Richard

British Council

Broadbent, Jim

Broccoli, Barbara

Brook, Peter

Brook, Phoebe (school teacher)

Brooker, Moira

Brosnan, Pierce

Browne, Coral

Browne, E. Martin

Brühl, Daniel

Bryant, Michael

Burke, David

Burton, Richard

Button, Fiona

Byrne, Patsy

Cabaret
(musical)

Caesar and Cleopatra
(Shaw)

Caird, John

Cairncross, James

Calder-Marshall, Anna

Caldwell, Zoe

Callard, Rebecca

Callow, Simon

Campbell, Martin

Canada: filming
The Chronicles of Riddick
; filming
The Shipping News

Caron, Leslie

Carter, Jim

Casino Royale
(film)

Cassel, Jean-Pierre

Castle, John

Cats
(musical)

Celebration
(Storey)

Cellan-Jones, James

Central School of Speech and Drama

Chamberlain, Richard

Chapman, Paul

Charlecote

Chekhov, Anton:
The Cherry Orchard
;
The Seagull
;
Three Sisters

Cher

Cherry Orchard, The
(Chekhov): National Theatre; RSC; television production

Chichester

Chitty, Alison

Chocolat
(film)

Christie, Julie

Chronicles of Riddick, The
(film)

Church, Tony

Clifford, Richard

Clifton Preparatory School, York

Clinton, Bill

Close, Glenn

Clunes, Martin

Coburn, James

Coliseum, London

Collier, Patience

Collins, Pauline

Colquhoun, Robert

Comedy of Errors, The

Compton Verney

Congreve, William,
The Way of the

World

Connolly, Billy

Content to Whisper
(Melville)

Cooke, Alistair

Cooke, Juliet

Cooper, Rowena

Coriolanus

Corri, Adrienne

Cotillard, Marion

Country Wife, The
(Wycherley)

Cowan, Theo

Coward, Noël:
Hay Fever
;
Private Lives

Craig, Daniel

Craig, Michael

Cranford
(TV series)

Crazy Gang

Crosbie, Annette

Cruttwell, Hugh

Cruz, Penelope

Cuckoo in the Nest
(Travers)

Curtis, Simon

Cymbeline

Dance, Charles

Daneman, Paul

Daniel, Jennifer

Danner, Blythe

Davies, Howard

Davis, Ernie (Old Vic stage doorkeeper)

Day-Lewis, Cecil

Day-Lewis, Daniel

de Filippo, Eduardo,
Filumena

de Sica, Vittorio

Dead Cert
(film)

Dearman, Glyn

Dench, Jeffery (JD’s brother); stage career

Dench, Dame Judi

Life
: childhood; schooldays; school plays; art school; Central School of Speech and Drama; Old Vic Company; American tour; European tours; joins the RSC; end of RSC contract; Nottingham Playhouse Company; West African tour; Oxford Playhouse Company; death of father; returns to Nottingham Playhouse; wins first BAFTA; returns to Oxford Playhouse; buys house in Hampstead; returns to the RSC; tour of Japan and Australia; marriage; pregnancy; birth of Finty; returns to work; buys house at Charlecote; back at the RSC; ankle injury and withdrawal from
Cats
; National Theatre Company; award of Dame of the British Empire; reads at Peggy Ashcroft’s Memorial Service; fire at Hampstead home; returns to National Theatre; Oscar nomination for
Mrs Brown
; Oscar win for
Shakespeare in Love
; on Broadway with
Amy’s View
; wins the Golden Quill award; death of Michael; receives BAFTA fellowship; returns to the RSC; knee operation and ankle injury; daily routine before going on stage; hopes for the future

Stage appearances
:
Absolute Hell
;
The Alchemist
;
Alice in Wonderland
;
All’s Well That Ends Well
;
Amy’s View
;
Antony and Cleopatra
;
Arms and the Man
;
The Astrakhan Coat
;
The Breath of Life
;
Cabaret
;
The Cherry Orchard
;
The Comedy of Errors
;
Content to Whisper
;
Coriolanus
;
The Country Wife
;
Cymbeline
;
The Duchess of Malfi
;
Entertaining Strangers
;
Filumena
;
The Firescreen
;
The Gay Lord Quex
;
The Gift of the Gorgon
;
The Good Companions
;
Hamlet
;
Hay Fever
;
Henry V
;
Henry VIII
;
The Importance of Being Earnest
;
Juno and the Paycock
;
A Kind of Alaska
;
King Lear
;
A Little Night Music
;
London Assurance
;
Macbeth
;
Madame de Sade
;
Major Barbara
;
Measure for Measure
;
The Merchant of Venice
;
The Merry Wives of Windsor
;
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
;
Mother Courage
;
Mr and Mrs Nobody
;
Much Ado About Nothing
;
Pack of Lies
;
A Penny for a Song
;
Pillars of the Community
;
The Plough and the Stars
;
Private Lives
;
The Promise
;
Romeo and Jeannette
;
Romeo and Juliet
;
The Royal Family
;
The Rules of the Game
;
St Joan
;
The Sea
;
The Seagull
;
She Stoops to Conquer
;
A Shot in the Dark
;
Time and the Conways
;
Toad of Toad Hall
;
Too True to be Good
;
The Twelfth Hour
;
Twelfth Night
;
Waste
;
The Way of the World
;
The Winter’s Tale
;
The Wolf
;
Women Beware Women
; York Mystery Plays

Television and radio roles:
Absolute Hell
;
As Time Goes By
;
The Cherry Orchard
;
The Comedy of Errors
;
Cranford
;
A Fine Romance
;
Ghosts
;
Going Gently
;
Henry V – Age of Kings
;
Hilda Lessways
;
King Lear
;
Langrishe, Go Down
;
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
;
Love in a Cold Climate
;
Luther
;
Macbeth
;
Saigon – Year of the Cat
;
Talking to a Stranger
;
Whom Do I Have the the Honour of Addressing?
;
Z-Cars

Film roles:
Casino Royale
;
Chocolat
;
The Chronicles of Riddick
;
Dead Cert
;
Die Another Day
;
Charing Cross Road
;
Four in the Morning
;
GoldenEye
;
Henry V
;
The Importance of Being Earnest
;
Iris
;
Ladies in Lavender
;
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
;
Mrs Brown
;
Mrs Henderson Presents
;
Nine
;
Notes on a Scandal
;
Pride and Prejudice
;
Rage
;
A Room with a View
;
Shakespeare in Love
;
The Shipping News
;
A Study in Terror
;
Tea with Mussolini
;
The Third Secret
;
Tomorrow Never Dies
;
Wetherby
;
World Is Not Enough, The

Directing:
The Boys from Syracuse
;
Look Back in Anger
;
Macbeth
;
Much Ado About Nothing
;
Romeo and Juliet

Dench, Olave (
née
Jones; JD’s mother)

Dench, Peter (JD’s brother)

Dench, Reginald (JD’s father)

Denham, Maurice

Depp, Johnny

Desert Island Discs
(radio series)

Desert Song, The
(musical)

Dexter, John

Die Another Day
(film)

Diesel, Vin

Digby Day, Richard

Donmar Warehouse, London

Doran, Gregory

Dotrice, Roy

Doyle, Patrick

Dubrovnik

Duchene, Kate

Duchess of Malfi, The
(Webster)

Dukakis, Olympia

Dury, Susan

Eagle in a Cage
(film)

Eden, Mark

Edgar, David,
Entertaining Strangers

Edwards, Buster

84
Charing Cross Road
(film)

Elizabeth II, Queen

Ellis, Robin

Englishby, Paul

Enigma
(film)

Entertaining Strangers
(Edgar)

Evans, Dame Edith

Evans, Tenniel

Everett, Rupert

Eyre, Sir Richard

Eyre, Ronald

Fairhall, Gary

Farhi, Nicole

Farrell, Nicholas

Feldman, Marty

Fellini, Federico

Fergie (singer)

Ffrangcon-Davies, Dame Gwen

Field, Sid