Buster Merryfield (November 27, 1920 - June 23, 1999) was an English actor who became a national institution after joining the hit BBC comedy "Only Fools and Horses" in 1984, as the former seafaring Albert Gladstone Trotter, known as Uncle Albert. The character effectively took over the role of senior citizen member of the irrepressible Trotter family from Lennard Pearce who played Granddad, Uncle Albert being Granddad Trotter's globetrotting long-lost brother. Wikipedia
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