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Last Updated:  February 28, 2010


  
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Audio Recordings   (includes Radio Plays, etc.)

            Year       Title / Event
            1959       Lucius Junius Brutus ... Radio Play
            1959       Hilda Lessways  ... Radio Play
            1966       Titus Andronicus
            1968       Pericles
            1968       Cabaret - recording of Stage Production
            1972       Puss in Boots
            1974       The Good Companions - recording of Stage Production
            1975       The Butterfly Ball
            1977       The Jubilee Bear -- BBC Radio
            1978       Heidi  
            1980       Notre Dame at Noon ... 
            1981       My Favourite Fairy Stories
            1982       Silas Marner
            1985       Private Lives ... Amanda - special performance
                                   for the Queen Mother's birthday
            1986       A Room with a View
            1986       Kids' Stuff
            1986       Woman of Paris
            1987       Lady Chatterly's Lover
            1987       A View to the Mountain 
            1989       Whom Do I Have the Honor of Addressing? BBC
 Radio
            1992       Hamlet
            1993       Romeo and Juliet
            1993       Chicken Shed Theater "The Night Before Christmas"
            1994       A Dog So Small
            1994       A Midsummers Night's Dream
            1994       King Lear
            1995       A Bunch of Sweet Peas
            1995       English Verse Readings -- multiple tapes
            1995       Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
            1995       Importance of Being Earnest
            1995       Lark Rise to Candleford
            1995       A Little Night Music -- recording of Stage Production 
            1995       The Ultimate Fairy Tale Collection
            1996       As Time Goes By 
            1996       Britten - Canticles I-V 
            1996       Man and Superman
            1996       The Driver's Seat
            1997       A Wizard of Earthsea
            1997       Winnie-the-Pooh Stories -- multiple stories / tapes
            1998       Hound of the Baskervilles
            1998       Amy's View
            1998       BBC Collection Love Poetry
            1999       Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire
            1999       Hay Fever
            2000       Men in Scarlet
            2000       Shakespeare: His Life, Works
            2000       Angelina Ballerina -- recorded for TV Series
            2000       Christmas Book at Bedtime
            2002       Into the Woods -- Voice recording for Broadway Play
            2002      
The Royal Story
            2002       All the Queen's Horses
            2002       Rosalind -- BBC Radio 4 Play
      
            2003       Two in Torquay

            2003       The Silver Swan CD
            2005       Pangbourne -- BBC Radio 4 Programme

              

  


Awards 

Year       Title / Event
1961       Paladino D'Argentino at the Venice Festival for Romeo And Juliet
1966       Best Actress - Win - Four in the Morning
1967       Bafta TV Award - Win - Talk to Strangers
1970       Received OBE
1976       Olivier Award - Win - Macbeth
1978       SWET Award - Win - Macbeth
1978       Honorary Doctor of Letters, Warwick University
1980       Olivier Award - Win - Juno and PC
1980       SWET Award - Win - Juno And The Paycock
1980       Evening Std Award - Win - Juno And PC
1980       Plays and Players Award - Win - Juno And PC
1980       BAFTA TV Award - Win - AFR / Going Gently
1981       Olivier Award - Nom - Other Places
1982       Olivier Award - Nom - IOBE
1982       Evening Std Award - Win - AKA / IOBE
1982       Drama Theatre Award - Win - AKA / IOBE
1983       Olivier Award - Win - Pack of Lies
1983       SWET Award - Win - Pack Of Lies
1983       Plays and Players Award - Win - Pack Of Lies
1983       Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of York
1985       Bafta Award - BSA Win - ARWAV
1985       ACE Award - Win - Mr & Mrs Edgehill
1987       Bafta Award - BSA Win - AHOD
1987       Evening Std Award - Win - A & C
1987       Drama Theatre Award - Win - A & C
1988       Received DBE
1988       Olivier Award - Win - A & C
1991       Olivier Award - Nom - Boys From Syracuse
1992       Olivier Award - Nom - Gift of Gorgon
1996       Olivier Award - Win - Absolute Hell
1996       Olivier Award - Win - ALNM
1997       Olivier Award - Nom - Amy's View
1997       Critics Circle Award - Win - Amys View
1998       Scottish BAFTA Award - Win - Mrs Brown
1998       Golden Globe Award - Win - Mrs Brown
1998       Golden Satellite Award - Nom - Mrs Brown
1998       Chicago Film Critics Award - Nom - Mrs Brown
1998       Evening Std Film Awards - Nom -Mrs Brown
1998       London Film Critic's Circle - Nom - Mrs Brown
1998       SAG Award - Nom - Mrs Brown
1998       BAFTA Award - Win - Mrs Brown
1998       Oscar Award - Nom - Mrs Brown
1998       Bafta TV Award - Nom - ATGB
1998       Olivier Award - Nom - Filumena
1999       Golden Globe Award - Nom - SIL
1999       Natl Society of Film Critics Award - Win - SIL
1999       SAG Award - Nom - SIL
1999       BAFTA Award - Win - SIL
1999       Outer Critics Circle Award - Nom - Amy's View
1999       Oscar Award - Win - SIL
1999       Tony Award - Win - AV
1999       The Gielgud Award
1999       Variety UK Entertainment Personality of the Year
2000       Named York Millennium Person
2000       Oscar Ceremony - Presenter
2000       Walpole Award
2000       Benjamin Franklin Award
2000       Oxford Univ Honorary Degree
2000       QMU Honorary Degree
2000       Univ of Wales Honorary Degree
2000       Univ of East Anglia Honorary Degree
2000       People's Award
2001       Golden Globe Award - Win - LOTBB
2001       Golden Globe Award - Nom - Choc
2001       ShoWest BSA Award - Win - Choc
2001       SAG BSA Award - Win -Choc
2001       SAG Award - Nom - LOTBB
2001       Oscar - Nominee - Choc
2001       Bafta TV Award - Win - LOTBB
2001       Emmy Lead Actress - Nom - LOTBB
2001       Bafta Fellowship Award
2002       Golden Globe Award - Nom - IRIS
2002       Bafta Award - Win - BA - IRIS
2002       Bafta Award - Nom - BSA - TSN
2002       SAG Award - Nom - BA - IRIS
2002       SAG Award - Nom - BSA - TSN
2002       Oscar Award - Nom - BS - IRIS
2002       Variety Club's Best Actress Award
2002       London Film Critic's Circle - Best British Actress

2002       Honorary Freeman of York
2002      
Freedom of Jovick
2002       Honorary Degree - Leeds University   
2003       Honorary Degree - Trinity College Dublin
2003       The Olivier Society's Special Award
2003       Mary Baldwin College - Honorary Degree
2004       The Will Award - Shakespeare Theatre
2004       The Juilliard School - Honorary Degree
2004       Taormina Arte Award - Sicily, Italy
2004       Evening Standard Theatre Awards
2005       Companionship of Honour - British Empire Award
2006       Oscars -- Weekend Events
2007       BAFTA Film Awards
          
                         
????       Broadcasting Press Guild TV & Radio Award - Best Actress
            



Books 

Year      Title / Event
1986      Gerald Jacobs Bio of DJD - A Great Deal of Laughter
1999      John Miller Bio of DJD - With a Crack in Her Voice
2004      John Miller 70th Birthday Tribute -- Darling Judi
2005      Judi Dench ... Scenes from my life




Directed by
 
1988      Much Ado About Nothing (Play)
1989      Look Back in Anger (Play)
1989      Look Back in Anger (Made for TV Film)
1989      Macbeth (Play)
1991      The Boys from Syracuse (Musical)
1993      Romeo and Juliet (Play)
 



Films    (Theatre Release / Made For TV)

Year      Title / Event
1964      The Third Secret
1965      A Study in Terror
1965      Four in the Morning
1965      He Who Rides a Tiger
1966      Days To Come  (need a copy)
1968      A Midsummer Night's Dream

1972      Luther
1974      Dead Cert
1977      The Comedy of Errors
1978      Langrishe, Go Down
1978      Macbeth
1979      On Giant's Shoulders

1980      The Cherry Orchard
1980      Nela ...  voice only  (need a copy / more info)
1982      Saigon - Year of the Cat
1985      A Room with a View
1985      Ghosts
1985      Mr and Mrs Edgehill
1985      The Browning Version
1985      Wetherby
1986      84 Charing Cross Road
1987      A Handful of Dust
1988      Behaving Badly
1989      Henry V

1990      Can You Hear Me Thinking
1991      Absolute Hell
1995      Goldeneye
1995      Hamlet
1995      Jack and Sarah
1996      Mrs. Brown
1997      Tomorrow Never Dies
1997      Shakespeare in Love
1998      Tea with Mussolini
1999      The World is Not Enough
1999      The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000      Chocolat
2000      Into the Arms of Strangers
2001      The Shipping News
2001      Iris
2001      The Importance of Being Earnest
2002      Die Another Day
2003      Ladies in Lavender
2003      Bugs !
2003      Home on the Range
2003      The Chronicles of Riddick
2004      Pride and Prejudice
2004      Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005      Notes on a Scandal
2006      Casino Royale
2006      Doogal

 



Interviews   (Radio / Television)

Year      Title / Event
1988      Kaleidoscope
1995      Bravo Profile Show
1996      The Pebble Mill Show
1997      Desert Island Disks
1998      Conan O'Brien Show
1998      The View
1999      Rough Cut
1999      Barry Norman's Film Night
1999      The Today Show
1999      Rosie O'Donnell Show
1999      The Charlie Rose Show
2000      ATGB -- Salute to British Comedy
2001      Changing Stages: Shakespeare
2001      The Today Show
2001      The Rosie O'Donnell Show
2001      Talking Movies
2002      Aled Jones- BBC Radio Wales
2002      The View
2002      The Early Show
2002      The Charlie Rose Show
2002      The Parkinson Show -- BBC1 TV
2002      CBS 60 Minutes
2002      Richard Eyre Interview
2003      Radio Redhill Interview
2003      The Parkinson Show
2004      KTLA 5 News - Live
2004      BBC Radio 4 -- Loose Ends
2004      NPR (National Public Radio)
2004      The Today Show
2004      Private Passions -- BBC Radio 3
2004      The Bounty Hunter
2004      The Parkinson Show - ITV  
2004      BBC Radio 2 - Judi at 70
2005      Live with Regis and Kelly
2005      The Leonard Lopate Show
2005      Showbiz Tonight - CNN
2005      The Charlie Rose Show

2005      National Public Radio (NPR) Interview
2005      The Today Show -- April 2005
2006      Lenny and Will:  Act 2 -- BBC Radio 4
2006      The Parkinson Show
2007      CBS Sunday Morning
2007      Berlin Int'l Film Festival
2007      The Oprah Winfrey Show
 



 

Theatre - Plays           The Old Vic Company Collection

Year      Title / Event
1957      York Mystery Plays
1957      Hamlet
1957      Measure For Measure
1957      Midsummer's Night Dream
1958      Twelfth Night
1958      Henry V
1958      Henry V
1958      Twelfth Night
1959      The Double Dealer
1959      As You Like It
1959      The Importance of Being Earnest
1959      The Merry Wives of Windsor
1960      Richard II
1960      Romeo and Juliet
1960      She Stoops to Conquer
1960      A Midsummer Night's Dream
1960      Henry VI
1960      King Lear
1960      Romeo and Juliet
1961      The Cherry Orchard
1962      A Midsummer Night's Dream
1962      Measure For Measure
1962      A Penny for a Song
1963      Twelfth Night
1963      A Shot in the Dark
1963      Macbeth
1963      Twelfth Night
1964      Macbeth
1964      Three Sisters
1964      The Twelfth Hour
1965      Romeo and Jeannette
1965      The Alchemist
1965      The Firescreen
1965      Measure For Measure
1965      Private Lives
1966      The Country Wife
1966      The Astrakhan Coat
1966      St. Joan
1966      The Promise
1966      The Rules of the Game
1967      The Promise
1968      Cabaret
1969      The Winter's Tale
1969      Women Beware Women
1969      Twelfth Night
1970      London Assurance
1970      Major Barbara
1971      The Duchess of Malfi
1971      The Merchant of Venice
1971      Toad of Toad Hall
1973      Content to Whisper
1973      The Wolf
1974      The Good Companions
1975      The Gay Lord Quex
1975      Too True to be Good
1976      Much Ado About Nothing
1976      Macbeth
1976      The Comedy of Errors
1976      King Lear
1977      The Way of the World
1977      Pillars of the Community
1979      Cymbeline
1980      Juno and the Paycock
1981      A Village Wooing
1981      Cats (had to pull out due to injury)
1981      Other Places
1982      A Kind of Alaska
1982      The Importance of Being Earnest
1983      Pack of Lies
1984      Mother Courage
1985      Waste
1986      Mr and Mrs Nobody
1987      Antony and Cleopatra
1987      Entertaining Strangers
1989      Hamlet
1989      Macbeth
1989      The Cherry Orchard
1991      The Plough and the Stars
1991      The Sea
1992      Coriolanus
1992      The Gift of the Gorgon
1994      The Seagull
1995      A Little Night Music
1995      Absolute Hell
1997      Amy's View -- RNT Theatre
1998      Filumena
1998      Amy's View - Aldwych Theatre
1999      Amy's View - Broadway
2001      The Royal Family
2002      The Breath of Life
2003      All's Well That Ends Well
2003      Les Miserables
2006      Hayfever
2006      The Merry Wives of Windsor





Private Life   (no link)

Year      Title / Event
1934      Judith Olivia Dench born
1935      Michael Williams born
1971      Married Michael Williams
1972      Tara Cressida Williams (Finty) born
2001      Michael Williams passed away




             Public Appearances

             Year      Title / Event
            
1993      Dunhill Queens Cup Polo 
           
  1997      Mrs. Brown Premiere

             1997      Evening Standard Awards
             1997      Tomorrow Never Dies Premiere

             1998      John Mills' 90th Birthday Party
             1998      Albert Memorial Miniature Unveiling
             1998      Charity Fundraiser - Mander and Mitchenson Theatre
             1998      Hampton Court Flower Show

             1999      Tea With Mussolini Premiere 
             1999      Amy's View Opening Night

             1999      Closure -- Broadway Play 

             1999      Marlene -- Broadway Opening
             1999      Literacy Partners Evening of Reading Gala
             1999      The 13th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition
             1999      65th Annual Drama League Awards
            
1999     
Highland Games -- Scotland
             1999      Oscar Wilde Statue Unveiling
             1999      BAFTA Awards -- Presenter

             1999     
The Lion King --Premiere          
             1999      The World is Not Enough -- UK Premiere

             2000      Gielgud Award Ceremony
             2000      Shakespeare Exhibition Opening 

             2000      The 72nd Academy Awards

            
2000      Dedication of Shakespeare's Birthplace
             2000      Oxford University Honorary Degree
             2000      Highland Games
             2000      John Mill's Book Signing
             2000      Bob Fosse New Dance Show Opening
             2000      The Mount School - MOSA


             2001      Tribute to John Mills  
             2001      Unite for the Future Fundraiser
             2001      Surrey Hospital Garden Dedication
             2001      Westminster Abbey Memorial Service
             2001      IRIS World Premiere

             2002      IRIS UK Premiere
             2002     
The Shipping News -- UK Premiere
             2002     
The Oxford Union Address
            
2002      Surrey Drama School Dedication
             2002      Surrey Swan Save Appearance          

             2002      White Tie and Tiara Ball
             2002      Hampton Court Flower Show

             2002      Winchester Festival

             2002      Oxted Gala Preview of IOBE
             2002      Carnival Cruise Ship Christening
             2002      IOBE -- UK Premiere
             2002      The Breath of Life -- Opening Night
             2002      The Story of Christmas Appeal Anniv Dinner
             2002      Die Another Day -- Royal World Premiere
             2002      Dame Judi's Birthday Celebration
             2002      The Story of Christmas Programme

             2003      The Olivier Awards
            
2003      The Iris Murdoch Bldg Opening
             2003      Harry Potter -- Book Launch
             2003      Elton John's White Tie and Tiara Ball
             2003      Hampton Court Flower Show

             2004      Blackfriars Playhouse Tribute

             2004      Ladies in Lavender -- Royal Film Premiere

             2005      Evening Standard Awards
             2005      Sandringham Flower Show

             2006      Oscars -- Weekend Events
             2006      Chelsea Flower Show

             2007      Berlin Int'l Film Festival
 

      

             199?       Dedication of Judi Dench Theatre at Hymer's College

 

 



Recitals / Public Performances / Lectures, etc.

Year      Title / Event
1996      Fond and Familiar -- DJD, MW and John Moffat
1998      Hey Mr. Producer
1998      Coming of Christmas - Sheldonian Recital

2002      NFA An Enchanted Evening Gala
2002      Oxford's Iris Murdoch Appeal
2002      Open Air Theatre - 70th Anniv Gala
2002      NT Platform with John Miller
2002      Cheltenham Literature Festival
2002      Fond and Familiar -- DJD, Geoffrey Palmer and John Moffat
2002      BAFTA Tribute to Billy Connolly

2003      The Poetry of War -- Cheltenham Fest of Lit
2003      Stratford Poetry Festival
2003      Swan Hellenic - Minerva II - Ship Launch
2003      Fond and Familiar
2003      Remembrance Ceremony -- September 11th

2004      Fond and Familiar
2004      Cheltenham Festival of Lit
2004      Geilgud Centenary Gala
2004      Shakespeare's Birthday
2004      Shakespeare Debate
2004      The Rose in Kingston Gala
2004      Judi Dench & Friends Gala

     2005      The Food of Love Concert
     2005      One Knight Only Gala
     2005      Theatre Royal Restoration Appeal
     2005      Cries from the Heart
     2005      National Theatre Platform

     2006      Make Poverty History
     2006      An Audience with Dame Judi
     2006      Side by Side by Sondheim
     2006      Fond and Familiar

 

 



Television

Year      Title / Event
1959      Family on Trial
1960      Henry V - Age of Kings
1960      Z-Cars
1960      Pink String and Sealing Wax
1962      Major Barbara
1963      The Funambulists
1965      Safety Man - Mogel
1966      Talking to a Stranger
1968      Morecombe & Wise Show
1968      On Approval
1970      Confession - Neighbors
1973      Keep an Eye on Amelie
1978      A Village Wooing
1979      Love in a Cold Climate
1980      A Fine Romance - Season 1 (7)
1980      Going Gently
1981      A Fine Romance - Season 2 (6)
1982      A Fine Romance - Season 3 (6)
1983      A Fine Romance - Season 4 (7)
1984      Playing Shakespeare
1986      Make and Break
1990      The Torch
1991      As Time Goes By - Season 1 (6)
1992      As Time Goes By - Season 2 (7)
1993      As Time Goes By - Season 3 (10)
1994      As Time Goes By - Season 4 (10)
1994      Middlemarch ...  The Voice of George Eliot
1995      As Time Goes By - Season 5 (7)
1996      As Time Goes By - Season 6 (7)
1998      As Time Goes By - Season 7 (7)
2000      As Time Goes By - Season 8 (6)
2002      As Time Goes By - Season 9 (4 + 1)
2003      Maria Callas -- BBC TV Documentary
2004      Theatre Biz - BBC Four
2005      As Time Goes By - Specials (2)




Videos 

Year      Title / Event
1979      The Shock of the New ...  Reader
1985      The Angelic Conversation
1986      Bar Convent in York * ...  Narrator
1989      Cinderella -- storytelling
1989      The Tinder Box -- storytelling
1989 ?    Judi Dench's York -- Video Tour
1996      1914 - 1918 Total War
1996      Film Portrait of JRR Tolkien

 

 
 

 


 


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