by Various (Author), John Miller (Editor)
The very name Judi Dench encourages a warm and admiring response from the public and fellow actors alike. Her wide-ranging career includes numerous Shakespearean performances (most recently in ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL at the RSC) and contemporary theatre (in plays by, among others, David Hare and Hugh Whitemore); on television (in the series A FINE ROMANCE and AS TIME GOES BY) and in the cinema (MRS BROWN, her Oscar-winning performance in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, THE SHIPPING NEWS, IRIS, and in four James Bond films as 'M'). Judi Dench is as popular as she is talented - when she and Maggie Smith appeared together in a David Hare play last year all seats were sold for the entire run within 24 hours. John Miller, her biographer, invited fellow actors, writers, and people of the theatre, film and television, to illustrate her genius and her character from their own experience and perspective. With contributors ranging from Billy Connolly to Hugh Whitemore, Bob Larbey to Tim Pigott-Smith, this is a unique portrait of the legend that is Dame Judi Dench.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 06 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 0752864629
ISBN 13: 9780752864624
Book Overview: Judi Dench is one of Britain's greatest - and best loved - actors. She has just been made Companion of Honour in the Birthday Honours list. This book offers a unique look at her life, with a range of contributors that reads like a Who's Who of stage, screen and television. John Miller has known Judi Dench for 10 years and this book has been written with her full co-operation. Miller's authorised biography of Judi Dench has sold almost 100,000 copies and reprints regularly. 'DARLING JUDI is devoid of sentimentality. It consists of intimate snapshots, full of joy and irreverence, and studied attempts to capture her brilliance ... One thing that all the contributors emphasize is that Dame Judi's greatness as an actress is also her greatness as a person' Daily Mail.
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John Miller's career has principally been in TV and radio (for the BBC) and for ten years until 1992 for the South of England ITV company, TVS. He is the author of biographies of Ralph Richardson, and for W&N/Orion: Judi Dench and Peter Ustinov. He collaborated with John Gielgud on AN ACTOR AND HIS TIME (Pan pb).