Dennis Patterson (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)

'Dennis Patterson was a fictional character in the popular drama series Auf Wiedersehen Pet. He was portrayed by Tim Healy.

Overview

When we first meet Dennis, a stubborn geordie bricklayer, he is entering Germany looking for work with his two friends, wet-nursed Neville, and loud, and unpredictable Oz. As the three musketeers (as Oz hailed them) reach the Dusseldorf where they are intended to work, complications begin to arise, and they are forced to live in a hut with four fellow ex-pats: Wayne, Moxey, Bomber, and Barry.

Back home, Deennis is in the middle divorcing his first wife Vera. But ensures that his two children: Kevin and Angela remain looked, and this is his purpose in Germany. He develops enough troubles to cope with over the course of the series, however his friends depend on him as a source of advice, and wisdom, and thus they hail him an involuntary leader of the group against his will

Later in the series, he has an affair with a German on-site secretary named Dagmar, who nearly convinces him to stay in Germany perminantly. He wishes to keep his relationship with Dagmar a secret, however it soon becomes a source of gossip within the hut.

In series two, he's back in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne working for a dodgy Scottish gangster called Ally Fraser, who has a notorious reputation throughout the northeast. He is Fraser's oddjob man, and after divorcing Vera he moved in with his older sister Norma, and he is currently seeing a receptionist named Christine Chadwick.

After an eventful time in Derbyshire rennovating one of Allys property's named Thornley Manor, Dennis and the rest of his gang move overseas to spain where they are set to help build Fraser's pool and surrounding area.

Dennis deeply dislikes Fraser, and resents working for him. He later has deep regrets for this, as the lads are later arrested in connection with Fraser's scheming.

At the opening of the third series, he has divorced three times, and is driving a mini-cab for a living, and misses his old friends. After re-uniting (with the exception of Wayne - who has died), the seven begin dismantling the Middlesborough Bridge and rebuilding it in Arizona. After the gang ship to Cuba, Dennis, Oz and Neville retire back to Dusseldorf once more.