Patrick Barlow

Patrick Barlow, born in Leicester, works as an actor, comedian, and playwright from England. His comic alter ego Desmond Olivier Dingle heads the two-man National Theatre of Brent. He has written and starred in many National Theatre of Brent productions, including All the World's a Globe (1987), Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (1995), and The Arts and How They Was Done (2007). For radio he wrote and performed in the sitcom The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience, broadcast over four weeks from January 1999, and played Om in the 2006 adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. On television he played Bob in Is It Legal? from 1995 to 1998, the vicar in Jam & Jerusalem, and Max in Absolutely Fabulous, and he wrote and directed National Theatre of Brent material for television. He also wrote the stage adaptation of The 39 Steps, which premiered in 2005 and later ran in London and on Broadway.