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When Ken and his fellow dwarf actors were moving around on location they would quite often sit on an open-topped trailer together and be pulled along by a tractor.

Ken was thrilled to film The Hobbit in New Zealand as he revealed in the first dwarves’ press conference: ‘The credentials to shooting here are really second to none. It’s not just because it’s the spiritual home, you could say, for the piece but simply because it has fantastic facilities – the envy of the rest of the world.’

At the same press conference Mark Hadlow (Dori) said: ‘It’s an amazing experience as a theatre actor, when you’ve been an admirer for years, as I have been, of Ken Stott’s work on stage and screen. To meet with him and get to talk about all the things that we share, has been extraordinary.’