Editing Frankie Howerd (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Edwardes Square, London 21.JPG|thumb|27 Edwardes Square, London]]
[[File:Edwardes Square, London 23.jpg|thumb|Blue plaque at Edwardes Square, London]]

A BBC TV biography about Frankie Howerd, ''Rather You Than Me'', was broadcast by [[BBC Four]] on 9 April 2008, and repeated on 10 February 2013. The script was written by [[Peter Harness]], after extensive interviews with Howerd's partner, Dennis Heymer. The comedian [[David Walliams]] was cast as Howerd.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/dec/14/bbc.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media |title=Walliams to play Frankie Howerd |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 December 2007 |access-date=16 December 2007 |location=London |first=Leigh |last=Holmwood}}</ref>

On 15 May 2009, Heymer died in the home, Wavering Down, that he and Howerd had shared. He was 79.<ref name=Heymer/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8055693.stm |title=Frankie Howerd's ex-partner dies |work=BBC News |date=18 May 2009 |access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref> Wavering Down is now 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 charity.<ref name="BBC 17m2006"/>

Howerd also lived at 27 [[Edwardes Square]], [[Kensington]], London W8.  The house bears a [[blue plaque]] installed by the Dead Comics' Society in 1993. In March 1999 former colleagues and friends and Howerd's sister Betty attended a fund-raising weekend in York and a blue plaque was placed on the Cumberland Street entrance to the [[Grand Opera House, York|Grand Opera House]]. The inscription reads: "Frankie Howerd OBE 1917-1992. Son of York". In 2016, a York Civic Trust plaque was unveiled at 53, Hartoft Street, Howerd's childhood home, by York-born actor [[Mark Addy]] and the [[Lord Mayor of York]].<ref name="trust">{{Cite web|url=https://yorkcivictrust.co.uk/heritage/civic-trust-plaques/frankie-howerd-1917-1992/|title=Frankie Howerd (1917-1992) – York Civic Trust|website=yorkcivictrust.co.uk}}</ref>

The church hall of St Barnabas Church, [[Eltham]], was re-named the Frankie Howerd Centre in the 1980s and was opened by Howerd himself.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2596878 |title=The Frankie Howerd Centre, Eltham:: OS grid TQ4275 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland – photograph every grid square! |publisher=Geograph.org.uk |access-date=11 June 2012}}</ref>

Howerd's career was described by the comedian [[Barry Cryer]] as being "a series of comebacks".<ref>Cryer speaking on ''Titter Ye Not; The Frankie Howerd Story'', [[BBC Radio 2]], 15 September 2009</ref>