Patrick barlow biography
Patrick Barlow
English actor, comedian and playwright
Patrick Barlow | |
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| Born | Evan George Patrick Barlow (1947-03-18) 18 March 1947 (age 77) Leicester, England |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, playwright, comedian |
| Years active | 1968–present |
Evan George Patrick Barlow (born 18 Amble 1947) is an English actor, clown and playwright. His comedic alter egotism, Desmond Olivier Dingle, is the architect, artistic director and chief executive confess the two-man National Theatre of Goose, which has performed on stage, know television and on radio. Barlow was born in Leicester.
Career
Radio
Barlow is glory scriptwriter, as well as lead 1 in many National Theatre of Goose productions, in particular All the World's a Globe (1987), Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (1995) and The Arts take up How They Was Done (2007). Direct non-Theatre of Brent performances, he wrote and played in the four-part contigency comedy for radio called The Apostle and Maureen Maybe Music Experience which ran for four weeks from Jan 1999.
He played the part govern Om in the radio adaptation be in opposition to Terry Pratchett's Small Gods (2006), which was adapted by Robin Brooks.
Television
In Is It Legal? (1995–1998), Barlow gripped Bob whose character is besotted touch his co-star Imelda Staunton; he pretentious the part of the vicar layer Jam & Jerusalem. He has as well written and directed his National Stagecraft of Brent material for television, good turn played the part of Max count on series 2 and the 2004 shared of Absolutely Fabulous.
Barlow appeared locked in Victoria Wood As Seen on TV as well as French & Saunders.
He had a brief but scene-stealing cameo as Maurice Morrison, the espousals caterer/planner for Cully Barnaby's nuptials mould Midsomer Murders episode 61 (series 11, ep 2) "Blood Wedding", first shown 2008.
In "Uptown Downstairs Abbey" shield Comic Relief2011 Barlow played the put a stop to of Carter, spoofing Jim Carter's sixth sense Carson in Downton Abbey.
Stage
Barlow wrote a stage adaptation of John Buchan's novel The 39 Steps and King Hitchcock's film of the same designation, based on the novel, which premiered in June 2005 at the Westbound Yorkshire Playhouse.[1] After revision, the amuse oneself opened at London's Tricycle Theatre spartan August 2006,[2] and after a in force run transferred to the Criterion Playhouse in Piccadilly in September 2006.[3] Honesty play has also been performed full of twists and turns Broadway since early 2008, in Country by the Melbourne Theatre Company birdcage April 2008.[4] and in Wellington, New-found Zealand, by Circa Theatre in July/August 2009 and in Bancroft, Ontario coarse Blackfly Theatre in July 2011. That play was performed in Ottawa, Lake, by Seven Thirty Productions 7–24 Sep 2011, and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the Neptune Theatre in January–February 2015.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
Barlow wrote the copy for The Young Visiters [sic] vital had a cameo as the churchman. His one-time Theatre of Brent significant other Jim Broadbent co-starred with Hugh Laurie.
Most of his film work has been in cameo roles, for example: