Ken Dodd

Person · Open Library

Born

1929

Works

8

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Film & TV

Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England, UK

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…

Known for

• Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness2025
• Ken Dodd: The Lost Tapes — Self (Archive Footage)2025
• The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved — (archive footage)2024
• Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC — Self (archive footage)2023
• Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were — Self (archive footage)2018
• Eric & Ernie's Home Movies — Self2017
• The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One — Self2015
• Marvellous — Himself2014
• Becoming the Beatles — Self2012
• I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern — Self2011

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1927-11-08

Active to

2018-03-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

25,931

Total plays

307,939

Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd, OBE (8 November 1927 – 11 March 2018) was an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor, identified by his unruly hair and protruding teeth, his red, white and blue "tickling stick" and his upbeat greeting of "How tickled I am!" He also created the characters of the Diddy Men ("diddy" being an informal British word for "small"). In the 1960s his fame in the UK was such that he rivalled the Beatles as a household name. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ken+Dodd">Read

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Ken

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Knotty Ash

Place of death

Knotty Ash

Occupation

writer

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Knight Bachelor

Genre

music hall

Instrument

voice

Image

Ken dodd december 2007.jpg

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