The couple's bliss was shattered in 1993 when he and Dame Judi's Grade II listed home in Hampstead was destroyed by fire while their daughter Finty was at home with a friend.
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Later they appeared together on screen in the movie Tea With Mussolini although he admitted he only took the part to 'hold Judi's hand' during filming in Italy.
Other joint appearances have included stage productions in London's West End in shows such as Pack Of Lies and Mr And Mrs Nobody.
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Their hesitant attempts at a relationship kept viewers glued for four series until wedding bells sounded in the show. They starred as Mike and Laura, a landscape gardener and translator respectively, who reluctantly fall in love as they approach middle age. They continued to earn respect and accolades for their theatre work but it was with ITV's A Fine Romance that they hit the big time. Their different spiritual beliefs - Dame Judi is a Quaker, and Williams a Roman Catholic - were no bar to marriage. Eventually they holidayed together and soon Williams could not bear to be parted from her. They became nodding acquaintances and over the course of nine years regularly met up for chats but romance failed to blossom. She jumped at the chance but the success of her latest production meant she was unable to join the cast. Later he was at the RSC when she was approached to co-star with him in The Taming Of The Shrew. He first became aware of her when a colleague at Nottingham Playhouse, where he was in rep, told him he had just split up with her. Getting together with his wife was a long, protracted affair. The actor, from Irish stock and brought up in Liverpool, proved his abilities during a 14-year stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company where he worked with directing legend Sir Peter Hall. And there are some things I can do a damned sight better than Jude. He once said: 'I never feel inferior as a person. Williams, 65, freely admitted his own acting talent was not up to his wife's, but being overshadowed did not rankle. With no aspirations to conquer Hollywood, Williams was content to win plaudits for his work in theatre and on TV with the occasional dalliance with movies. Williams had suffered for months from lung cancer and Dame Judi recently cancelled engagements to be with him when he took a turn for the worse. He died yesterday at his home surrounded by friends and family, a statement issued by his agent Julian Belfrage Associates said. The 65-year-old star was also known in his own right as a fine classical actor. He was known to millions for his appearances in TV sitcom A Fine Romance in which he starred with Dame Judi. Actor Michael Williams - the husband of Dame Judi Dench - has died after a long battle against cancer.
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