Jeffery Dench was an English actor, best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Background
Jeffery Dench was born in Tyldesley, Manchester 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.
Education
Dench attended Street Peter"s, York, where he began acting with the role of Cleopatra in George Bernard Shaw"s Caesar and Cleopatra.
Career
He was the older brother of actress Judi Dench. "When not playing grotesque old men, he brought humour, warmth and integrity to his parts. Shakespeare did write brilliant leading roles for Burbage and others, but he also wrote for a known company of talented professionals.
The Royal Society of Chemistry has been fortunate to have among its regulars a number of high-quality actors, safe hands that could carry the plays along with distinction.
Jeffery Dench was one of those, and if there were to be a late twentieth-century version of the page in the First Folio "The Names of the Principal Actors in all These Plays", his name would be on the list.".
Membership
As a member of the audience, seeing Jeffery Dench"s name on the cast list was a guarantee of quality.