Ken Dodd
Birthday
1927/11/08
Day of death
2018/03/11 (90 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England, UK
Also know as
Kenneth Arthur Dodd, Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd, Sir Ken Dodd, Ken Dodd O.B.E., Ken Dodd OBE, Doddy
Biography
Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd was born on 8 November 1927 in a former farmhouse in Knotty Ash, a suburb of Liverpool, to Arthur Dodd and Sarah (née Gray); where his parents lived. He had an older brother, William and a younger sister, June. He went to the Knotty Ash School and sang in the local church choir of St John's Church, Knotty Ash. He was to live in Knotty Ash all his life, dying in the house in which he was born, and often referred to the area—as well as its mythical "jam butty mines" and "bl...Read more
Acting
(2014) Marvellous
as Himself
(2023) Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
(1997) Ken Dodd: Live Laughter Tour
as ---
(1994) An Audience with Ken Dodd
as Himself
(1996) Hamlet
as Yorick
(2024) The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
as (archive footage)
(2012) Becoming the Beatles
as Self
(1999) Alice in Wonderland
as Mr. Mouse
(1987) Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
as Tollmaster
(2017) Eric & Ernie's Home Movies
as Self
(2011) I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
as Self
(2018) Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were
as Himself (archive footage)
(2002) Another Audience With Ken Dodd
as Self
(2015) The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
as Self
(1988) This Morning
as Self
(1964) Top of the Pops
as Self
(1963) Doctor Who
as Tollmaster
(2007) More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
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(1975) Seaside Special
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(1991) Pebble Mill
as Self
(1988) A Question Of Entertainment
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(1979) The Ken Dodd Laughter Show
as Self
(1969) Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
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(1974) Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
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(1982) Ken Dodd's Showbiz
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(1967) Doddy's Music Box
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(1979) Blankety Blank
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(1996) Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Sir Fitz-Patrick Flush (voice)
(1995) Paul Daniels' Secrets
as Himself
(1978) An Audience with...
as Self