Legacy
A BBC TV biography about Frankie Howerd — Rather You Than Me — was broadcast by BBC Four on 9 April 2008. The script was written by Peter Harness, after extensive interviews with Howerd's partner, Dennis Heymer. The comedian David Walliams was cast as Howerd.
On 15 May 2009, Heymer died in the home that he and Howerd had shared near Axbridge, Somerset. He was 80.
Howerd's home, Wavering Down, is a tourist attraction and, in the summer, hosts concerts and opens regularly as a museum of Howerd's collection of memorabilia and personal effects such as his false teeth and ill-fitting toupee to raise funds for charities. Howerd's grave is at St. Gregory's Church in Weare, Somerset.
Howerd also lived at 27 Edwardes Square, Kensington, London W8 6HH. The house bears a blue plaque erected by the Dead Comics' Society.
The church hall of St Barnabas Church, Eltham is called the Frankie Howerd Centre.
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