died on Friday (6 November), aged 93.Dench, 85, appeared alongside Palmer in BBC sitcom As Time Goes By, which ran from 1992 to 2005.The show featured the pair as two former lovers who marry each other after meeting again unexpectedly.Dench and Palmer also starred together in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and costume drama Mrs Brown.Paying tribute to Palmer, Dench called him a "master of comedy".“Oh my goodness, how we laughed – we did nine (series) of As Time Goes By and it is too