...Buster Merryfield, aka Uncle Albert!!!
Merryfield became a professional actor at the age of 57 after having worked for the Westminster Bank for nearly 40 years. During his time with the bank, he reached the position of senior area manager, but his banking career was interrupted by his war service.
Merryfield joined Only Fools and Horses in January 1985 as the former seafaring Albert Gladstone Trotter, known as Uncle Albert, who was Grandad Trotter's long-lost younger brother and was known for his catchphrase of "During the war...". The character was added after Lennard Pearce, who played Grandad, died in December 1984.
I've posted this scene a thousand times but it's never not just flat-out hilarious, and one of the few times you can see David Jason almost losing it 🤣
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