The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024•12A•3h 1m•Released
Documentary
Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy’s private world, exploring the many secrets of his comic talent, revealing never-before-seen home-videos, stage performances and extracts from some of the thousands of Ken’s diary notebooks which he’d asked his wife to burn after his death. Wrestling with her conscience for quite some time, Lady Dodd, finally agrees with entertainment historians, museum curators and many of Ken’s admirers like Stephen K Amos, Harry Hill, Shaparak Khorsandi, Lee Mack, Paul O’Grady, Johnny Vegas, and Sir Ian McKellen to preserve Doddy’s notebooks for posterity. These stars explore their passion and memories of Ken in this candid, insightful film which takes you backstage behind the red curtain to reveal a far more intriguing man than the public or even his wife ever realised.
Director
Eric Harwood
Languages
English
Studio
Heart & Soul Films
Cast
Ken Dodd
(archive footage)
Miriam Margolyes
Narrator (voice)
Ian McKellen
Johnny Vegas
Lee Mack
Harry Hill
Shaparak Khorsandi
Michael Billington
Stephen K. Amos
Paul O'Grady
Tim Vine
Stephanie Cole
Anne Dodd
Nichola McAuliffe
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Production
Company
Heart & Soul Films
Producer
Anne Dodd
Producer
Lorna Dickinson
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