This is a list of characters from the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, its spin-off series The Green Green Grass, and its prequel series Rock & Chips.
Overview CharacterPlayed bySeriesAppearances Only Fools and Horses The Green Green Grass Rock & Chips 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 Del Trotter David Jason colspan="7" colspan="3" colspan="3" James Buckley colspan="11" colspan="3" Rodney Trotter Nicholas Lyndhurst colspan="7" colspan="3" colspan="3" Ted Trotter Lennard Pearce colspan="3" colspan="7" colspan="3" Phil Daniels colspan="11" colspan="3" Albert Trotter Buster Merryfield colspan="3" colspan="4" colspan="3" colspan="3" Cassandra Trotter Gwyneth Strong colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="7" Raquel Turner Tessa Peake-Jones colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="3" colspan="3" Boycie John Challis colspan="11" colspan="3" Stephen Lloyd colspan="11" colspan="3" Trigger Roger Lloyd-Pack colspan="7" colspan="3" colspan="3" Lewis Osborne colspan="11" colspan="3" Denzil Tulser Paul Barber colspan="2" colspan="6" colspan="2" colspan="3" Ashley Jerlach colspan="11" colspan="3" Marlene Boyce Sue Holderness colspan="3" colspan="8" colspan="3" Mike Fisher Kenneth MacDonald colspan="2" colspan="5" colspan="3" colspan="3" Sid Roy Heather colspan="7" colspan="6" Mickey Pearce Patrick Murray colspan="2" colspan="5" colspan="3" colspan="3" Damien Trotter Patrick MacManus colspan="6" colspan="7" Grant Stevens colspan="6" colspan="7" Robert Liddement colspan="6" colspan="7" Jamie Smith colspan="6" colspan="7" Douglas Hodge colspan="6" colspan="7" Ben Smith colspan="6" colspan="3" colspan="3" Tyler Boyce Jack Doolan colspan="7" colspan="4" colspan="3" Various babies colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="7" Joan Trotter Kellie Bright colspan="11" colspan="3" N/A colspan="6" colspan="7" Reg Trotter Peter Woodthorpe colspan="2" colspan="3" colspan="7" Shaun Dingwall colspan="11" colspan="3" Frederick "Freddie the Frog" Robdal Nicholas Lyndhurst colspan="6" colspan="4" colspan="3" Danny Driscoll Roy Marsden colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="3" Tony Driscoll Christopher Ryan colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="3"
Regular characters Character Actor First appearance Last appearance Duration Episodes Del Boy David Jason (James Buckley in Rock & Chips) "Big Brother" Euro 2020 Message from Del Boy 1981–2003, 2014, 2021 65 Rodney Nicholas Lyndhurst "Big Brother" 2014 Sport Relief special 1981–2003, 2014 64 Grandad Lennard Pearce (Phil Daniels in Rock & Chips) "Big Brother" "Licensed to Drill" 1981–1984 22 Uncle Albert Buster Merryfield "Strained Relations""The Comic Relief Special" 1985–1997 37
Recurring characters Major Character Actor First appearance Last appearance Duration Episodes Trigger Roger Lloyd-Pack (Lewis Osbourne in Rock & Chips) "Big Brother" "Sleepless in Peckham" 1981–200339 Boycie John Challis (Stephen Lloyd in Rock & Chips) "Go West Young Man" "Sleepless in Peckham" 1981–2009 33 Sid Roy Heather "The Long Legs of the Law" "Sleepless in Peckham" 1982, 1985–2003 13 Mickey PearcePatrick Murray "Healthy Competition" "Sleepless in Peckham" 1983–2003 20 Slater Jim Broadbent (Callum McNab in Rock & Chips) "May the Force Be with You" "The Class of '62" 1983, 1985, 1991 3 Denzil Paul Barber (Ashley Gerlach in Rock & Chips) "Who's a Pretty Boy?" "Sleepless in Peckham" 1983–2003 18 Mike Kenneth MacDonald "Who's a Pretty Boy?" "Time On Our Hands" 1983–1996 30 Marlene Sue Holderness "Sleeping Dogs Lie" "Sleepless in Peckham" 1985–2009 20 Raquel Tessa Peake-Jones "Dates""Sleepless in Peckham" 1988–2003 20 Cassandra Gwyneth Strong "Yuppy Love" "Sleepless in Peckham" 1989–2003 21 Alan Parry Denis Lill "Little Problems" "Mother Nature's Son" 1989–1992 8 Damien Various "Three Men, a Woman and a Baby""Sleepless in Peckham" 1991–2003 10
Minor PC Terry Hoskins Police Constable Terence "Terry" Hoskins (Christopher Mitchell) appeared in two episodes – "May the Force Be with You" and "To Hull and Back'". He works alongside Roy Slater but does not like him. Slater often makes him miss lunch and watch suspects whilst Slater is away. He has a conversation with Del Boy, in which it is revealed Del Boy sold Terry's mother a gas fire, advising Del to tell Slater who stole a microwave he was accused of stealing. In "To Hull and Back", Slater's superiors suspect him of diamond smuggling and order Terry to keep an eye on Slater, with Terry driving Slater into a police sting at the end of the episode.
Jevon Jevon (Steven Woodcock) is a friend of Rodney and Mickey Pearce, first seen in "Dates". Unlike Mickey, Jevon is successful with women, though to his chagrin Cassandra Parry rebuffed him when he asked her to dance. He was even more surprised when she agreed to dance with Rodney. Jevon set up a trading partnership with Mickey Pearce, which lasted throughout the sixth series. They apparently gave up on the trading business at the end of that series, though, following a run in with the Driscoll brothers which left them both in plaster. Jevon made one further appearance in "The Jolly Boys' Outing", after which Woodcock left the series to take the role of Clyde Tavernier in EastEnders and the character was not seen again. He appeared in "The Jolly Boys' Outing", "Little Problems", "Sickness & Wealth", "Yuppy Love" and "Dates'".
Nerys "Nervous" Nerys (Andrée Bernard) was the Nag's Head barmaid who appeared in two episodes, "Dates'" and "Sickness and Wealth". She briefly dated Rodney, although she was left terrified when a gang of yobs chased them in the van. Nerys was later scared again when she interrupted the séance that the Trotters were attending.
Alan and Pamela Parry Alan (Denis Lill) and Pamela Parry (Wanda Ventham) made infrequent appearances during series six and seven. They are Cassandra's parents, and subsequently Rodney's in-laws.
Alan is the owner of a successful printing firm, Parry Print Ltd, which employs Rodney from 1989 to 1991, and later becomes a friend of Del Boy. Despite being a successful businessman by the time he met Del, Alan, who used to live on a council estate in the area, often ending up drunk or getting sick after eating too many jellied eels whilst under Del's influence, much to the chagrin of more overtly middle-class Pam. They are both in attendance at Damien's christening in "Miami Twice".
Roy Slater
DCI Roy Slater (Jim Broadbent in Only Fools and Horses and Calum MacNab in Rock & Chips) appeared in three episodes – '"May the Force Be with You", "To Hull and Back" and "The Class of '62". A much-reviled ex-schoolmate of Del, Slater was a corrupt policeman and (as revealed in "The Class of '62") the ex-husband of Raquel Turner. He was sent to prison for diamond smuggling after the events of "To Hull and Back". Slater also appears in the prequel Rock & Chips, where he is barely tolerated by Del and the others as a member of their gang, as his friendship with them is at this point obviously falling apart. In "Five Gold Rings", he leaves school to become a police cadet, and arrests Del and Jumbo for selling illegal American records (although he is rebuffed by his sergeant, who goes on to keep the records for himself and lets Del and Jumbo go with a warning). This is the last time Slater is seen, as he does not appear in "The Frog and the Pussycat".
June Snell June Snell (Diane Langton) is an ex-girlfriend of Del Boy's from many years previously. They meet up again when Rodney dates June's daughter Debbie in "Happy Returns", which Del scuppers in the false assumption that Debbie is his daughter.
Del and June fall out when June reveals that Debbie's real father is Del's best friend Albie Littlewood, and Del in turn admits that he had been cheating on her with Albie's girlfriend Deidre. They are later reconciled again, however, as Del invited June to the opera in "A Royal Flush" with Rodney and his date Lady Victoria. He and June ruin the evening and embarrass Rodney by noisily eating snacks and arguing with other audience members. The evening then comes to an end after June becomes ill from eating too much and vomits (off screen) over an audience member sitting in front of her.
Aside from Debbie, June has another child, a son named Jason.
Chris Chris (Tony Marshall) is a friend of Rodney and Mickey Pearce, first seen in "Dates". He also appears in "Rodney Come Home" and in the dream sequence at the start of"Mother Nature's Son".
Barmaids Throughout the run of Only Fools and Horses, there were various barmaids employed at the Nag's Head. Aside from Nerys, they only filled relatively minor roles, speaking only the occasional one-liner or flirting with Del. Joyce (Peta Bernard) appeared in two episodes of the first series. Julie (Julie La Rousse) appeared in five episodes over the second and third series; however, La Rousse was credited for only her second appearance. Karen (Michele Winstanley) appeared in four episodes of the third series. In all her appearances, she was credited as Michèle Winstanley. Vicky (Kim Clifford) appeared in the Christmas special "To Hull and Back". Maureen (Nula Conwell) appeared in five episodes over the fourth and fifth series.
Trotter relatives Joan Trotter
Joan Mavis "Joanie" Trotter is Del and Rodney's late beloved mother, and wife of Reg. Though she is never seen in the series, she is often mentioned by Del, especially in his attempts to emotionally blackmail Rodney, who had few memories of her. Del loved his mother deeply, and still mourns her death. Over the series, it became clear to Rodney and the viewers, but not always to Del, that Joan had had a series of affairs with numerous men during her loveless marriage to Del's selfish, workshy father Reg. One such affair was with local "gentleman thief" Freddie Robdal and resulted in the birth of Rodney. She died on 12 March 1964 of an unknown illness while Rodney was still very young.
Her tombstone, a flamboyant fibreglass monument, is also seen occasionally. In "The Yellow Peril", Del paints it yellow, not realising that the paint is luminous. In "Danger UXD", they dress up the blow up dolls in Joan's old clothes in order to get them out of the flat without being noticed. After the Trotters became millionaires, Del returns to their now deserted flat and remembers his mother telling him he could not have the day off school with a hangover because he was due to sit his 11-plus (the actress who provides this voiceover is uncredited). When Cassandra and Rodney have their baby in "Sleepless in Peckham", they name her Joan.
The character makes her first screen appearance in Rock & Chips. She is portrayed as a hard-working woman in her late 30s, struggling to maintain a home, which included her workshy husband Reg, elderly father-in-law Ted and her teenage son, Del Boy. She has an affair with Freddie Robdal, a friend of Reg recently released from prison, and soon discovers she is pregnant. Joan and Freddie's affair is not one of lust; they seem to love each other genuinely and Joan loves both her sons deeply. She is willing to leave Reg altogether and run away with Freddie to Bournemouth to raise Rodney with him but would only do so once she was sure Del was financially secure. She tries her best to help Del's relationship and hopeful eventual marriage to a rich man's daughter, but the relationship does not work, and Joan ultimately chooses to remain in Peckham for Del's sake. Joan is a huge fan of Hollywood films and actresses, given her job in the Ritz cinema, to the point that she changed her hairstyle multiple times during Rock & Chips to resemble actresses such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda and Audrey Hepburn.
Reg Trotter
Reginald "Reg" Trotter is the estranged father of Del Boy, stepfather of Rodney, and son of Grandad.