Jeffery Dench Jeffery Dench Jeffery Danny Dench (29 April 1928 – 27 March 2014) was an English actor, best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was the older brother of actress Judi Dench. Jeffery Dench was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire to Eleanora Olave (née Jones), a native of Dublin, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a physician who met his future wife while studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. Jeff lived in Tyldesley with his brother Peter; later the family moved to York where his sister, Judith, was born. Dench attended St Peter's, York, where he began acting with the
Peter and Alice Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, breaks your heart open."". However, there was some criticism of the play. Henry Hitchings in "The Evening Standard" wrote: "" this is a piece that uses lush language to compensate for its lack of real dynamism"". Despite this, the critics applauded the performance of Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, with one critic saying ""Dame Judi and Mr Whishaw are good, she almost Queen Motherly these days, he so sensitive, so irredeemably moist, that he could do with sponging."" Peter and Alice Peter and Alice is a play by American writer John Logan based on the