- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 8, 1927
- Place of Birth
- Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England, UK
- Died
- March 11, 2018
Ken Dodd
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 "black pudding plantations"—in his act. He then attended Holt High School, a grammar school in Childwall, Liverpool, but left at the age of 14 to work for his father, a coal merchant. Around this time he became interested in show business after seeing an advert in a comic: "Fool your teachers, amaze your friends—send 6d in stamps and become a ventriloquist!" and sending off for the book. Not long af…
Filmography
movieKen Dodd: The Lost Tapes
2025 · Self (Archive Footage)
movieKen Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
movieThe Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024 · (archive footage)
movieSounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023 · Self (archive footage)
movieKen Dodd: How Tickled We Were
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieEric & Ernie's Home Movies
2017 · Self
movieThe Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015 · Self
movieMarvellous
2014 · Himself
movieBecoming the Beatles
2012 · Self
movieI Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
2011 · Self
tvMore Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy
2007
tvCelebrity Mastermind
2003
movieAnother Audience With Ken Dodd
2002 · Self, Writer
movieAlice in Wonderland
1999 · Mr. Mouse
movieHeroes of Comedy: Arthur Askey
1998 · Self
movieKen Dodd: Live Laughter Tour
1997
movieHamlet
1996 · Yorick
tvDennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996 · Sir Fitz-Patrick Flush (voice)
tvPaul Daniels' Secrets
1995 · Himself
movieAn Audience with Ken Dodd
1994 · Self
Pebble Mill
tvPebble Mill
1991 · Self
tvThis Morning
1988 · Self
A Question of Entertainment
tvA Question of Entertainment
1988
movieDoctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
1987 · Tollmaster
Ken Dodd's Showbiz
tvKen Dodd's Showbiz
1982
tvBlankety Blank
1979
tvThe Ken Dodd Laughter Show
1979 · Self
tvAn Audience with...
1978 · Self
tvSeaside Special
1975
tvKen Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Robinson Crusoe
movieRobinson Crusoe
1970 · Billy Crusoe
Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
tvKen Dodd and the Diddymen
1969
Doddy's Music Box
tvDoddy's Music Box
1967
tvTop of the Pops
1964 · Self
tvDoctor Who
1963 · Tollmaster