"father and the family patriarch. Despite the difference in age, personality and outlook, the brothers share a constant bond throughout. The situation focuses mainly on their attempts to become millionaires through questionable get rich quick schemes and by buying and selling poor-quality and illegal goods. They have a three-wheeled Reliant Regal van and trade under the name of ""Trotters Independent Traders"", mainly on the black market. Initially, Del Boy, Rodney and Grandad were the only regulars, along with the occasional appearances of roadsweeper Trigger (Roger Lloyd-Pack) and pretentious used car salesman Boycie (John Challis). Over time, the cast expanded, mostly"
"Trigger laughing at a television set which was turned off. Trigger was scripted to appear in the 2014 ""Only Fools and Horses"" sketch for Sport Relief, but Lloyd-Pack died on 15 January 2014, from pancreatic cancer. The script was subsequently rewritten to omit his role, although it is mentioned in the sketch that Trigger cannot assist Del and Rodney with their latest business venture because he is working at the market. The sketch was dedicated to the memory of Lloyd-Pack and John Sullivan. Trigger (Only Fools and Horses) Colin Ball, more commonly known as Trigger, is a fictional character in"
"Trigger felt excluded as a child and found his status by saying things that made people laugh. Trigger first appeared on ""Only Fools and Horses"" in the first episode and appeared regularly throughout the entire show's run. He is an example of a breakout character in that he became popular with the show's audience, despite his status as a minor, supporting character. Trigger appears as a teenager in the ""Only Fools and Horses"" prequel series, ""Rock & Chips"", where he is portrayed as equally daft as in the main series. As shown in ""Sleepless in Peckham"", he accompanies Del, his"
"Roger Lloyd-Pack Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) was an English actor. He was best known for the role of Trigger in ""Only Fools and Horses"" from 1981 to 2003. He had a supporting role of Owen Newitt in ""The Vicar of Dibley"" from 1994 to 2007, and as Tom in ""The Old Guys"" with Clive Swift. He was also well known for his appearance as Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"" and his appearances in ""Doctor Who"" as John Lumic in the episodes ""Rise of the Cybermen"" and ""The"
"special of ""Only Fools and Horses"" was dedicated to the memory of both Lloyd-Pack and John Sullivan. Roger Lloyd-Pack Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) was an English actor. He was best known for the role of Trigger in ""Only Fools and Horses"" from 1981 to 2003. He had a supporting role of Owen Newitt in ""The Vicar of Dibley"" from 1994 to 2007, and as Tom in ""The Old Guys"" with Clive Swift. He was also well known for his appearance as Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"" and"
"gang, his family and Freddie the Frog on the first Jolly Boys' Outing in 1960. Trigger is a relatively minor character in the prequel series, giving a daft remark every now and again, but he receives a rather notable mention in ""The Frog and the Pussycat"" when Violet Trotter, Del's grandmother, mentions Grandad's affair with Trigger's grandmother, Alice Ball (marking the first time in the history of the ""Only Fools and Horses"" franchise that Trigger's real name is mentioned). At one point in the pilot episode, Reg asks Del and Jumbo if Trigger is mentally OK, since he once spotted"
"Gwyneth Strong Gwyneth Strong (born 2 December 1959) is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"" as Cassandra, the love interest and, later, wife of Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Strong's first acting appearance was in the Royal Court Theatre's production ""Live Like Pigs"", when she was eleven. In 1973, whilst a pupil at Holland Park School, she appeared in the horror film ""Nothing But the Night"" as Mary Valley, and she was a regular in the children's TV series ""The Flockton Flyer"" between 1977 and 1979, as Jan Carter. Strong"
"Chips"" in 2010, portrayed by Ashley Jerlach, who imitated Barber's distinctive Liverpool accent for the role. Denzil Tulser Denzil Tulser (born 8 August 1945), is a character in the popular BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"" played by Paul Barber. Denzil is a long distance lorry driver originating from Liverpool, a good friend of Derek Trotter and one of Del's victims when it comes to dodgy goods. In the 1983 episode ""Who's A Pretty Boy?"" Denzil's ex-wife Corinne could however see through Del and stated that whenever Denzil and Del got together, Denzil ended up drunk or out-of-pocket, to which"
"and a son, Charlie, born c. 2000. Tessa Peake-Jones Tessa Peake-Jones (born 9 May 1957) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Raquel in the BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"", whom she played from December 1988 until the programme ended in 2003. She was educated at Kenmore Park Junior School, Harrow and Downer Grammar School, now known as Canons High School, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Peake-Jones is best known for playing Raquel Turner, the longtime partner of the main character Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter, in the television comedy ""Only"
"Only Fools and Horses Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003. Episodes are regularly repeated on UKTV comedy channel Gold and occasionally repeated on Yesterday and BBC One. Set in Peckham in south-east London, it stars David Jason as ambitious market trader Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter, Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter, and Lennard Pearce as their elderly Grandad. After Pearce's"
"Dying Art"" of the ITV crime drama ""Midsomer Murders"". Lill resides in Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset, with his wife Vanessa. They have two children. Denis Lill Denis Lill (born 22 April 1942) is a New Zealand-born British actor. He is best known for his role in ""Only Fools and Horses"" as Alan Parry. Lill joined the RNZAF as a 13–course BES cadet entrant in 1959. It was in the RNZAF that he first expressed an interest in amateur dramatics and a fondness for mimicking characters of the BBC's ""The Goon Show"". Throughout his air force career, he involved himself in operatic"
"Trigger (horse) Trigger (originally named Golden Cloud, July 4, 1934 – July 3, 1965) was a palomino horse made famous in American Western films with his owner and rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers. Trigger was born in San Diego, California. Though often mistaken for a Tennessee Walking Horse, his sire was a Thoroughbred and his dam a grade (unregistered) mare who, like Trigger, was a palomino. Movie director William Witney, who directed Roy and Trigger in many of their movies, claimed a slightly different lineage, that his sire was a ""registered"" Palomino stallion, though no known Palomino registry existed at"
"known for portraying ""Trigger"" in the BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"". He was also known for his role in ""The Vicar of Dibley"" as Owen Newitt, and to international audiences his greatest fame was as Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"". In 2005, he appeared in the second series of ITV's ""Doc Martin"" as a farmer who held a grudge against Doctor Ellingham for what he believed was the malpractice-related death of his wife. In 2006, he played John Lumic and provided the voice of the Cyber-Controller in two episodes of ""Doctor"
"""Only Fools and Horses"". In another interview, they mentioned Latka Gravas from ""Taxi"" as an influence and compared the relationship between Ted and Dougal to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza: ""Alongside the wily priest who would lie at the drop of a hat we wanted a gormless idiot who was the very model of innocence."" For his portrayal of Dougal, O'Hanlon turned to Laurel and Hardy and ""Fawlty Towers""s bumbling waiter Manuel. O'Hanlon also drew inspiration from his child sister, as well as dogs, explaining: ""Dougal had to be more than just stupid. He had to be otherworldly"
"Denis Lill Denis Lill (born 22 April 1942) is a New Zealand-born British actor. He is best known for his role in ""Only Fools and Horses"" as Alan Parry. Lill joined the RNZAF as a 13–course BES cadet entrant in 1959. It was in the RNZAF that he first expressed an interest in amateur dramatics and a fondness for mimicking characters of the BBC's ""The Goon Show"". Throughout his air force career, he involved himself in operatic and theatric productions. He left New Zealand for Britain in 1967. Some of his many film and television roles include ""Fall of Eagles"""
"and snubbed by his superior Sgt. Foster, who also lets Del and Jumbo off with a warning and seizes their records. Roy Slater Roy Slater (born 15 May 1945) is a recurring character in the British sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"". He was played by Jim Broadbent, and in the prequel ""Rock and Chips"", by Calum MacNab. Despite only ever making three on-screen appearances, Slater's background is revealed in some detail during the course of the show's history. As a child, Slater longed to be part of Del Boy's gang at school as they used to sit next to each"
"Trigger (film) Trigger is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement. The film was originally planned in the late 1990s as a companion film to McDonald's ""Hard Core Logo"", which would have starred Hugh Dillon and Callum Keith Rennie. However, work on the film remained dormant until McDonald and screenwriter Daniel MacIvor decided to rewrite their original screenplay to be about two women instead. Rennie does, however, appear in the film as his"
"Marshall in Episode 3 ""Olympics"" of the ""Absolutely Fabulous"" 20th-anniversary specials. Although his film appearances were few, he played small roles in """" (1985) and the film ""Dirty Weekend"" (1993), directed by Michael Winner. Ryan starred as Baron Hardup in the pantomime of Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Norwich from 17 December 2013 to 19 January 2014. Christopher Ryan Christopher Ryan (born Christopher Papazoglou; 25 January 1950) is an English actor best known for his roles as Mike in the BBC comedy series ""The Young Ones"", Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series ""Only Fools and Horses"", and as Edina"
"Rodney Trotter Rodney Charlton ""Rodders"" Trotter is a fictional character in the long running BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"", played by Nicholas Lyndhurst / Ryan Hutton (2019 musical). He was named after Rod Taylor and Charlton Athletic. Rodney's personality was based on the experiences of series creator John Sullivan, who also had an older sibling and claimed to have been, like Rodney, a dreamer and an idealist in his youth, but struggled with independence and was confined to him. The nickname 'Dave' is bestowed upon him by the character Trigger, the only character to refer to him as such,"
"2016. Lyndhurst lives in West Sussex with his wife Lucy, a former ballet dancer (married in Chichester, West Sussex, 1999). They have a son, Archie. Lyndhurst's hobbies include underwater diving, beekeeping and piloting his own aeroplanes. Lyndhurst is the grandson of Francis Lyndhurst, a theatrical scenery painter and film director, who set up an early film studio at Shoreham Fort, Shoreham-by-Sea. Radio Nicholas Lyndhurst Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst (born 20 April 1961) is an English actor. He played Rodney Trotter in ""Only Fools and Horses"", Gary Sparrow in ""Goodnight Sweetheart"", Dan Griffin in the BBC drama ""New Tricks"" and Adam Parkinson"
"Del Boy Derek Edward Trotter, more commonly known as Del Boy (born 10 December 1945), is the fictional lead character in the popular BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"" and one of the main characters of its prequel, ""Rock & Chips"". He was played by David Jason in the original series and was portrayed as a teenager by James Buckley in the prequel. Del Boy is often regarded as one of the greatest comedy characters in the history of British television, and is regarded as an iconic character in British culture. Encompassing everything Cockney (though coming from Peckham not an"
"both Del and Rodney find long-term love, in the form of Raquel (Tessa Peake-Jones) and Cassandra (Gwyneth Strong) respectively; Del also has a son with Raquel, Damien (played by five actors, most recently Ben Smith). Rodney and Cassandra marry, separate and then get back together again. Cassandra miscarries, but then she and Rodney eventually have a baby. Rodney finds out who his real father was. The Trotters finally become millionaires, lose their fortune, and then regain some of it. The most frequent roles for guest actors in ""Only Fools and Horses"" were as Del or Rodney's once-seen girlfriends, barmaids at"
"in Verwood, Dorset. Iris died in 2002 from natural causes and was buried alongside him. Buster Merryfield Harry ""Buster"" Merryfield (27 November 1920 – 23 June 1999) was an English actor best known for starring as Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy ""Only Fools and Horses"". Born in Battersea, London, England, Merryfield was from a working-class background. His father, also called Harry Merryfield, was a packer, and his mother Lily (née Stone), was a part-time waitress. His sister Irene died when she was eight years old. He was given the name ""Buster"" by his grandfather, as he weighed nine pounds"
"Triggermen Triggermen is a 2002 crime comedy film written by Tony Johnston and Mark Thomas and directed by John Bradshaw for First Look International. Starring Pete Postlethwaite, Neil Morrissey, Adrian Dunbar, and Donnie Wahlberg, the film had festival and video screenings in 2002 and 2003 before its DVD premiere in 2004 and television releases in 2007 and 2008. Set in Chicago, the film was shot in Toronto. Pete Maynard (Neil Morrissey) and Andy Jarrett (Adrian Dunbar) are two con men down on their luck. They are holed up in a Chicago boarding room with their landlady harassing them for her"
"The Trigger Effect The Trigger Effect is a 1996 American thriller film written and directed by David Koepp and starring Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue and Dermot Mulroney. The film follows the downward spiral of society during a widespread and lengthy power outage in Southern California. As Koepp's directorial debut, the film was inspired by the 1978 documentary television series ""Connections"" and the 1960 ""The Twilight Zone"" episode ""The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"", where Koepp's uncle, actor Claude Akins, starred. ""The Trigger Effect"" explores the idea that a simple power outage can potentially trigger a chain of largely unfavorable"
"Buster Merryfield Harry ""Buster"" Merryfield (27 November 1920 – 23 June 1999) was an English actor best known for starring as Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy ""Only Fools and Horses"". Born in Battersea, London, England, Merryfield was from a working-class background. His father, also called Harry Merryfield, was a packer, and his mother Lily (née Stone), was a part-time waitress. His sister Irene died when she was eight years old. He was given the name ""Buster"" by his grandfather, as he weighed nine pounds at birth, and it stuck throughout his entire life, not least because he refused to"
"Tessa Peake-Jones Tessa Peake-Jones (born 9 May 1957) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Raquel in the BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"", whom she played from December 1988 until the programme ended in 2003. She was educated at Kenmore Park Junior School, Harrow and Downer Grammar School, now known as Canons High School, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Peake-Jones is best known for playing Raquel Turner, the longtime partner of the main character Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter, in the television comedy ""Only Fools and Horses"". She had a co-starring"
"Nicholas Lyndhurst Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst (born 20 April 1961) is an English actor. He played Rodney Trotter in ""Only Fools and Horses"", Gary Sparrow in ""Goodnight Sweetheart"", Dan Griffin in the BBC drama ""New Tricks"" and Adam Parkinson in Carla Lane's series ""Butterflies"". Lyndhurst also starred as Ashley Philips in ""The Two of Us"", as Fletch's son Raymond in ""Going Straight"", the sequel to the sitcom ""Porridge"", Jimmy Venables in ""After You've Gone"", and Freddie 'The Frog' Robdal in the ""Only Fools and Horses"" prequel ""Rock & Chips"". Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst was born on 20 April 1961 in Emsworth, Hampshire,"
"on the TV series ""Only Fools and Horses"". It has also been used in video games ""DJ Hero 2"" and ""Forza Horizon 3"" on the in-game radio station Bass Arena for the latter. It was also used in a May 2018 episode of ITV soap opera Emmerdale, playing on the radio in Charity Dingle's car, and triggering memories of when she was raped by Detective Inspector Mark Bails in 1990, when she was fourteen. Most recently, it has been used by BT in a 2018 advertising campaign. ""Killer"" debuted in the UK top 40 at no.39 on 14 April 1990."
"in a 2008 interview, Sullivan was quoted as saying: ""There will not be another series of ""Only Fools And Horses"". I can say that. We had our day, it was wonderful but it is best to leave it now"". Though Sullivan died in 2011, it returned for a special Sport Relief episode in 2014. ""Only Fools and Horses"" has separate theme songs for the opening and closing credits, ""Only Fools and Horses"" and ""Hooky Street"", respectively. The original theme tune was produced by Ronnie Hazlehurst and recorded on 6 August 1981 at Lime Grove Studios. Alf Bigden, Paul Westwood, Don"
"after the events of ""Sleepless in Peckham"" and ""Beckham in Peckham"". In marketing for the book, John Challis and Sue Holderness reprised their roles as Boycie and Marlene. It is mentioned in the book that during the events of ""The Green Green Grass"", Del thought Boycie to be dead. Del Boy Derek Edward Trotter, more commonly known as Del Boy (born 10 December 1945), is the fictional lead character in the popular BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"" and one of the main characters of its prequel, ""Rock & Chips"". He was played by David Jason in the original series"
"July 2018, John Sullivan's son, Jim Sullivan, announced that an ""Only Fools and Horses"" musical was nearing completion and is due to launch on 9 February 2019 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter (played by David Jason), a fast-talking, archetypal South London 'fly' trader, lives in a council flat in a high-rise tower block, Nelson Mandela House, in Peckham, South London, with his much younger brother, Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lyndhurst), and their elderly Grandad (Lennard Pearce). Their mother, Joan, died when Rodney was young, and their father Reg absconded soon afterwards, so Del became Rodney's surrogate"
"September 2016, she joined the cast of the popular BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", in the recurring role of Geraldine Clough. Strong married former ""Footballers' Wives"" and ""Eldorado"" star Jesse Birdsall on 15 July 2000. They have one son Oscar (born 1988), and one daughter Lottie (born 1991). She now lives in Bexhill, East Sussex. Gwyneth Strong Gwyneth Strong (born 2 December 1959) is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"" as Cassandra, the love interest and, later, wife of Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Strong's first acting appearance was in the"