Ken Dodd

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Sir Ken Dodd, OBE (born Kenneth Arthur Dodd, 8 November 1927 - 11 March 2018) was an English comedian. He played the Tollmaster in the Doctor Who television story Delta and the Bannermen.

	8 November 1927
	11 March 2018
	Tollmaster
	Actor
	Delta and the Bannermen
	1987
	The Ken Dodd Show, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Doddy's Music Box, Ken Dodd and the Diddymen, The Good Old Days, The Ken Dodd Laughter Show, Blankety Blank, Dennis the Menace, Hamlet, Heroes of Comedy, Alice in Wonderland, The Canterbury Tales, Bob Monkhouse: A BAFTA Tribute, Arena, The Golden Age of Trams, The Untold Tommy Cooper, The Late Great Eric Sykes, Celebrity Mastermind, The Museum of Curiosity
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Personal Life and Career

Dodd was raised in Liverpool and attended Knotty Ash School. At the age of seven, Dodd was dared to ride a bicycle with his eyes shut. In doing so, he crashed and received facial injuries that resulted in his distinctive buck teeth. This feature would later become iconic in his performances.

Dodd's first big performance was at the Nottingham Empire and from then on he gradually rose to fame as he was viewed positively. In 1989, he was taken to court on charges of tax evasion. He reportedly had local school children perform in his acts and left them unpaid.

He was also found to have little money in his bank, instead having £36,000 in cash. When asked by the judge "What does a hundred thousand pounds in a suitcase feel like?", he famously replied "The notes are very light, M'Lord." He was later acquitted. The trial led to his use of the line "Let me introduce myself. I'm Kenneth Arthur Dodd, artists' model and failed accountant", while performing.

In the DWU

• The Seventh Doctor started talking to William Blake about a murder victim, then wandered off into a conversation about a comedian called Ken Dodd. (PROSE: The Pit)
• The Tenth Doctor once mentioned that Ken Dodd was a comedian from the North of England. (AUDIO: Death in the New Forest)

External links

• Ken Dodd at the Internet Movie Database