Buster Merryfield
- Acting
- November 27, 1920 · Battersea, London, England, UK
- June 23, 1999
Biography
Harry 'Buster' Merryfield was a British actor best known for his role as Uncle Albert in the long running hit BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses; a role he played from 1985 to 1996. Merryfield took up acting professionally late in life, following his retirement as a bank manager in 1978. His stage name of Buster stemmed from childhood; given to him by his grandfather, as he weighed nine pounds at birth, and it stuck throughout his entire life, not least because he refused to divulge his real name to anyone during his lifetime and it only became open knowledge after his death of a brain tumour in 1999.
Known for
Filmography
- Only Fools And Horses: The Lost Archive
- The Story of Only Fools And Horses · Self
- Only Fools and Horses: Only Fools Cutaway · Uncle Albert Trotter
- Only Fools & Horses - Miami Twice - The Movie · Uncle Albert Trotter
- Noel's House Party · The Old Soldier
- Only Fools and Horses: The Robin Flies at Dawn · Albert Trotter
- Only Fools and Horses: Royal Variety Show · Albert Trotter
- Love Song · Sir Joshua Stokes
- Surprise, Surprise · Self
- Shroud for a Nightingale · Sir Miles Honeyman
- Strangers and Brothers · Bishop
- Dalgliesh · Sir Miles Honeyman
- The Citadel · Professor Challis
- Only Fools and Horses · Uncle Albert Trotter
- Hannah · Uncle Jim
- The Paul Daniels Magic Show · Self
- An Audience with... · Self