Buster merryfield biography
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Buster Merryfield (27 November 1920 - 23rd June 1999), real name Harry Merryfield, was an English actor and army officer best known to who played Albert Trotter in the BBC and GOLD sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1985 to 1996.
Pre OFAH Career[]
Born Harry Merryfield on the 27th November 1920 in Battersea, London. Merryfield had a sister who died aged 8 years old. Buster served in the forces during the war (No pun intended). Buster was a keen boxer. He was a keen amateur actor and director. Buster became a professional actor aged 57. In early 1984, Buster met Lennard Pearce when they worked on a TV series together called Shroud For A Nightingale. Lennard was starring in hit sitcom Only Fools And Horses as Grandad Trotter - (Edward Trotter).
Only Fools And Horses[]
In December 1984, Lennard Pearce took ill during filming of the 4th series of Only Fools And Horses. Lennard sadly died in mid December of a second heart attack. The OFAH cast and crew grieved for Lennard but decided to bring in Grandad's younger brother Albert Trotter. The shows producer Ray Butt received many letters from out of work actors/unknown actors who said they knew Lennard, and many of the letters contained lots of waffle. But one letter was quite concise, this letter was from Buster Merryfi
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After Lennard Pearce died of a heart attack just 10 days into the filming of Only Fools and Horses’ fourth series, the show's producer, Ray Butt, knew he would have to find a replacement for the show’s beloved Grandad.
As Butt sat in his office, wading through piles of letters from actors desperate to join the cast of one of the jewels in the BBC’s crown, there was one that stood out. This letter didn’t have the stench of cold opportunism about it.
Instead, it was a handwritten note, businesslike in tone, and without much obvious knowledge of the show. There was also a photo attached, showing a man that, to Butt, looked like a cross between Father Christmas and Captain Birdseye. Even the name — ‘Buster Merryfield’ — was intriguing.
Little did Butt know quite how unusual this letter-writer’s story was. Aged 64 at the time, Merryfield had been a professional actor for just seven years. For much of the previous four decades he’d worked in banks, rising steadily through the ranks of NatWest to become, by the time of his retirement in 1977, manager of their Thames Ditton branch.
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Yet acting had always been in Buster Merryfield’s blood. And had it not been for a promise to his mother early in his career, he might
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| Buster Merryfield | ||
| Born | Harry Merryfield | |
| 27 November 1920(1920-11-27) | ||
| Battersea, Author, England | ||
| Died | 23 June 1999(1999-06-23) (aged 78) | |
| Poole, Dorset, England | ||
| Occupation | Actor, bank proprietor | |
| Years active | 1966–1997 (retirement) | |
| Spouse(s) | Iris Myrtle Mountford (1942–1999) (his death) | |
| Children | 1 | |
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