List of Only Fools and Horses characters

"This is a list of characters from the BBC situation comedy, Only Fools and Horses"

The Trotter family

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Other regular characters

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Guest characters

The Driscoll Brothers

(Played by Roy Marsden and Christopher Ryan)
Danny and Tony Driscoll, usually known as the Driscoll Brothers, they only appeared in one episode - "Little Problems" - but were mentioned in numerous others. The Driscoll brothers were the local gangsters with a fearsome reputation. They beat up Del Boy after he failed to repay money owed to them, and in the same episode left Mickey Pearce and Jevon with broken bones for a similar reason. In a similar joke to the different-looking Del and Rodney being brothers, the Driscoll brothers differ in height by as much as two feet, though in their case it's the taller brother that's the brains. The pair appear to have a love-hate relationship, as they often argue but continually work together to get what they want.

In the spin-off series "The Green Green Grass", it is revealed that the Driscoll Brothers have finally been found guilty and sent to prison, thanks to Boycie grassing them to the police.

The role of Danny Driscoll was originally written for series fan Anthony Hopkins but he was unable to appear due to the filming of "The Silence of the Lambs". Interestingly enough, Roy Marsden and Anthony Hopkins are known to be good friends.

Robbie Meadows

(Played by Ewan Stewart)Dr Robert Meadows appears once in the episode Sickness and Wealth as Del's one-time GP. When Del goes to visit him with stomach cramps, he discovers that Robbie has since left his practice and gone to the local hospital. Del tells his new GP a completely opposite story about his lifestyle, that he is a celibate, tee-toal, non-smoking, vegetarian health freak. The GP, unable to ascertain why Del is experiencing such difficulties, sends him to hospital. While Del is worrying about what is wrong with him, Robbie finally comes to see him, stating he is now in charge of Del's case, being as he is a former patient. Robbie warns Del that lying to his GP has meant that diagnosing Del's condition (IBS) has taken far longer than it should, and that only because Robbie knows Del (and begrudgingly admires him) has Del's condition been successfully identified.

Jumbo Mills

(Played by Nick Stringer)
Mills was Del's old business partner (they ran a jellied eels stall together) who emigrated to Australia during the 1960s. He returned to Peckham in the episode "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", and offered Del the chance to restore their old partnership by helping him run his new used car business back in Australia, only for Del to refuse the offer due to Rodney being unable to go due to his drug conviction. Stringer also appeared in an earlier episode, "Go West Young Man", playing an Australian man who bought a car with no brakes from Del Boy, which he later accidentally crashed into the back of Boycie's E-type Jaguar, which at the time was being driven by Del.

Nerys

(Played by Andree Bernard)
"Nervous Nerys" was the "Nag's Head" barmaid who appeared in two episodes, "Sickness and Wealth" and "Dates". She briefly dated Rodney, although she was left terrified when a gang of yobs began chasing them in the van.

Don Occhetti

(Played by David Jason)
Appeared as the main antagonist in the two-part episode "Miami Twice". Ochetti was a mafia don and an exact doppelgänger for Del Boy. As the episode unfolded it emerged that Ochetti was under FBI surveillance and facing trial for murder, kidnapping and drug-running. After seeing Del's resmblance to his father, Occhetti's son Rico launched a series of unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Del, hoping that the authorities would believe Occhetti himself was dead and thus spare him the prison sentence.

Alan Parry

(Played by Denis Lill)
A regular cast member during series six and seven and once described by Del as a "little fella, one blue eye, one brown, talks with a squint, walks with a stutter", Alan Parry was Cassandra's father and subsequently, Rodney's father-in-law. He was the owner of a successful printing firm which employed Rodney for a time from 1989 to 1991, and later became a friend of Del. Despite being a successful businessman by the time he met Del, Alan was still a Cockney wideboy at heart, often ending up drunk or getting sick after eating too many jellied eels whilst under Del's influence, much to the chagrin of his more overtly upper-class wife, Pam.

Freddie Robdal

An unseen character, "Freddie the Frog" was first mentioned in "The Frog's Legacy" and later revealed to be Rodney's biological father. Robdal was a former frogman in the Royal Navy (hence the nickname) and a career thief, who had an extramarital affair with Joan Trotter in 1959. Robdal died in 1963 after accidentally sitting on his own detonator during a bank robbery. When an old photograph of Robdal surfaced in the episode "Sleepless in Peckham", his striking resemblance to Rodney finally settled the issue of the latter's parentage after years of speculation.

=Roy Slater=

(Played by Jim Broadbent)
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's, Slater was a corrupt policeman and (as revealed in "The Class of '62") the ex-husband of Raquel. He was sent to prison for diamond smuggling after the events of "To Hull and Back".

Joan Trotter

Del and Rodney's deceased mother, and wife of Reg. Though she was never seen in the series, she was often mentioned by Del, especially in his attempts to emotionally blackmail Rodney. Her tombstone, a flamboyant fibreglass monument, was also seen occasionally. "The Yellow Peril" revealed that Joan's middle name was Mavis, and that her death happened on March 12, 1964.

Reg Trotter

(Played by Peter Woodthorpe)
The estranged father of Del and Rodney (until "Sleepless in Peckham"), and son of Grandad, Reg abandoned his family shortly after the death of his wife Joan. Eighteen years later he returned, in the episode "Thicker than Water", claiming to have a hereditary blood disorder. When the results revealed Del and Rodney to have different blood groups, he attempted to split the family by questioning Del's paternity. He quickly left once it became known that he had modified the test results himself, and was never heard from again. As with their mother, he was often mentioned by Del in other episodes.

Renee Turpin

(Played by Joan Sims)
Only appeared in the episode, "The Frog's Legacy" but mentioned in "Chain Gang". She is Trigger's aunt. She informs Del of the gold legacy that Freddie the Frog left to his mother. She also sparked a debate over who Rodney's real father was after stating that "Joanie was never 100% sure about him".