SKYFALL MOVIE CAST - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: DAME JUDI DENCH, SAM MENDES - HFSID 341628

SKYFALL MOVIE CAST
Signed production shot from the 2012 film showing director Sam Mendes with actress Judi Dench, with Dench adding her character's name, "M", beneath her signature
Photograph signed: "Judi Dench/M", "Sam Mendes", Color 10x8. Highly respected British actress JUDI DENCH (b. 1934) has been nominated for numerous acting awards, winning three British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (A Room With a View, 1986; A Handful of Dust, 1988; and Iris, 2001), an Oscar(Shakespeare in Love, 1998), seven Laurence Olivier Awards for acting(Macbeth, 1977; Juno and the Paycock, 1980; Pack of Lies, 1984; Antony and Cleopatra, 1987; Absolute Hell, 1996; and A Little Night Music, 1996) and a Tony Award (Amy's View, 1999). Dench began a prolific stage career with a critically acclaimed performance as Hamlet's Ophelia with the Old Vic Company and made her first of over 80 TV, movie and video game appearances with the title role in the TV series Hilda Lessways (1959). Some other notable performances from her arms-length resume include the BBC TV series A Fine Romance (1981-1984) and As Time Goes By (1992-2002), Queen Victoria in the movie Mrs. Brown (1997), Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, Arabella in Tea with Mussolini (1999), Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal (2006), James Bond fans know her as Bond's boss M in five movies (Golden Eye, 1995; Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997; The World Is Not Enough, 1999; Die Another Day, 2002; and Casino Royale, 2006). Dench was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1988. SAM MENDES (b. 1965) is an English stage and film director. He began his career directing plays in England with shows like Stephen Sondheim's Assassins in 1992, Lauren Bart's Oliver in 1994, John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret also in 1994 and Stephen Sondheim's Company in 1995. His film directorial debut was the award winning, box office smash, American Beauty (1999). The film won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture and Mendes won the Directors Guild of America Award for the film. He later directed the films Road to Perdition (2002),Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008) and Away We Go (2009). He is married to the Academy Award winning actress Kate Winslet. Mendes' signature in poor contrast, but legible. Fine condition.