When Louis Met... Jimmy

Name: When Louis Met... Jimmy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2000-04-13
Duration: 49 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Louis Theroux, Jimmy Savile, Michael Buerk

TV Special
2000
49m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

Documentary

Louis Theroux spends some time with the eccentric broadcaster and charity fundraiser Sir Jimmy Savile and attempts to get behind the public persona.Louis Theroux spends some time with the eccentric broadcaster and charity fundraiser Sir Jimmy Savile and attempts to get behind the public persona.Louis Theroux spends some time with the eccentric broadcaster and charity fundraiser Sir Jimmy Savile and attempts to get behind the public persona.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

6User reviews

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Top Cast7

Louis Theroux

Self - Presenter

Jimmy Savile

Self

Michael Buerk

Self
(uncredited)

Elizabeth Dawn

Self
(uncredited)

John Prescott

Self
(uncredited)

Terry Waite

Self
(uncredited)

Will Yapp

Self
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Will Yapp
Writer
- Louis Theroux
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Did you know

Goofs
Jimmy Savile's mother died in 1972, not 1973 as Theroux stated.

Quotes
Louis Theroux: So, why do you say in interviews that you hate children when I've seen you with kids and you clearly enjoy their company and you have a good rapport with them?
Jimmy Savile: Right, obviously I don't hate 'em. That's number one.
Louis Theroux: Yeah. So why would you say that then?
Jimmy Savile: Because we live in a very funny world. And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say "I don't like children" because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.
Louis Theroux: Are you basically saying that so tabloids don't, you know, pursue this whole 'Is he/isn't he a paedophile?' line, basically?
Jimmy Savile: Yes, yes, yes. Oh, aye. How do they know whether I am or not? How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I'm not, so I can tell you from experience that the easy way of doing it when they're saying "Oh, you have all them children on Jim'll Fix It", say "Yeah, I hate 'em."
Louis Theroux: Yeah. To me that sounds more, sort of, suspicious in a way though, because it seems so implausible.
Jimmy Savile: Well, that's my policy, that's the way it goes. That's what I do. And it's worked a dream.
Louis Theroux: Has it worked?
Jimmy Savile: A dream.