1994: BUSTER MERRYFIELD on ONLY FOOLS... | Pebble Mill | Classic Celebrity Interview

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@Orlak3lly 10 ай бұрын

He sounds nothing like I’d expected him to! Shows how much of an amazing actor Buster was. RIP

@Dextrovix-42 10 ай бұрын

It's nice to hear from Buster directly rather than him acting as Uncle Albert. And he can knock out a fine tune on the piano!

@andybils6141 10 ай бұрын

What a pleasure to hear his stories, RIP Buster you brought many smiles to a lot of people ❤

@tomcourteney-hoare1421 10 ай бұрын

R.I.P Buster.Absolute legend.Amazing acting talent

@GazH-zc7jj 10 ай бұрын

My childhood, sat watching only fools with my dad, great memories, RIP uncle albert, boycie, trigger, sid, and any others I may of forgotten, I'm 43 now and my kids, 13 and 9 love only fools, and no doubt their kids will too. Simply the best programme of all time.

@AnIdiotOutdoors 10 ай бұрын

Grandad aka Leonard Pearce. He too was brilliant in his role as Grandad may he rest in peace ❤

@GazH-zc7jj 10 ай бұрын

I forgot to mention grandad! Though personally I preferred uncle albert to grandad though he still was brilliant, the chandelier has to be his best ever scene 😂

@AnIdiotOutdoors 10 ай бұрын

@GazH-zc7jj yeah I did prefer uncle Albert, there was more about him and the series went from standalone episodes to a storyline.

@MarkDavies-s3g 10 ай бұрын

Me and my ex wife bumped into Buster in Bournemouth M&S in the mid 90s. He saw my new born lad and gave a pound for his piggybank . Such a character who is missed.

@lordeden2732 10 ай бұрын

Get a quid out of a bank manager with out having to beg that's quite an achievement!

@Zlervo 10 ай бұрын

I love Buster. What a good actor he was. 😂❤

@garybarnett2756 10 ай бұрын

We met him once, what a lovely bloke he was , we said you talk quite posh in real life so he started talking like his character uncle Albert in only fools and horses, nice man god rest his soul.

@richards9750 10 ай бұрын

Buster seems such a gent. He was superb in the best comedy of all time Only Fools & horses

@BelfastManUtdTherapy 10 ай бұрын

Only Fools had great writing and great humans working on it, thats why its so well loved from 4 year olds, 16 year olds, 30, 50, 70 or 90 year olds!! The greatest show ever. Never gets boring. Had al episodes on VHS, the DVD now Blu Ray. Happy New Year to everyone!

@mentalhealthmattersmhm8100 10 ай бұрын

Mans a legend him and grandad rip legend gone but not forgotten

@jaggass 10 ай бұрын

Everybody said whenever he was about and in Poole, Bournemouth etc he would talk to anyone and loved it when people recognized him. He said on a clip ''It's like magic''

@loudy.atey4 8 ай бұрын

Such a lovely fella, unk on the joanna brings a warmth to a cold heart❤️

@Wiiggz 9 ай бұрын

This clip of buster made me smile. Absolutely brilliant on only fools and horses, the type of guy you’d want at your local for sure!

@MartinRichards-j9e 10 ай бұрын

Lovely to watch rip buster

@jasonayres 10 ай бұрын

A nice surprise. I've never heard an interview with the man I only knew as "Uncle Albert". Goodness me. Worked in a bank...! And the sing-song. As a boy, I used to shake my head at the thought of the older people, standing around the piano (generally at times of the year like this). I'm... kind of... sentimental about it all now.

@robbie198919 10 ай бұрын

I still see his grave everytime I go to see my nan and grandads at verwood cemetery! We now have a road here in verwood called Merrifield Road to pay respect for the years he lived here after he retired!!

@Liofa73 10 ай бұрын

That shirt is so 90s. I’d forgotten how they looked like deck chair material. We all wore them though.

@PaulHunter-ih1ye 10 ай бұрын

R.I.P Buster, thank you for all the best of times.❤

@karlblanch3898 6 ай бұрын

RIP Buster ..Thanks for the many hours off entertainment you gave us in Only Fools And Horses 🐎. I have had the pleasure off meeting you as well as seeing you in Pantomime in Bournemouth Dorset. You legend and a gentleman 👏. Miss you Uncle Albert . 😢😢😢😢

@tonyburton5706 10 ай бұрын

What a nice man sadly missed.

@Skirtis87 10 ай бұрын

Amazing to hear Buster, David Jason and Nic Lyndhursts real voices. Miles away from their OFAH ones. What great actors.

@michaeljagger7673 9 ай бұрын

Buster sounded the most different.

@culturedivined 10 ай бұрын

RIP buster, you was a great edition to only fools and horses!

@michaelwhittaker4450 10 ай бұрын

Addition

@PST101 10 ай бұрын

Buster

@mikeoxlong3504 Ай бұрын

Were

@garyrobertshaw2202 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant what a lovely man rip

@darrenwilson8042 10 ай бұрын

I used to live in Christchurch and Buster was regularly seen in the town centre - lovely lovely man - so polite and so giving

@DB-qj5kt 10 ай бұрын

Nice, well spoken man. Seemed a true gentlemen.

@westminsterwatcher5152 10 ай бұрын

He was lovely!

@alexdelargesupertramp 9 ай бұрын

This is a gem.

@GeorgeHarrisonDarkHorse 10 ай бұрын

A Wonderful clip… Must be the First time on TV that he never said “During the war”….🤣😂 Great character & great to see him in real-life (so to speak) 👍🏼

@rupert-j8f 10 ай бұрын

during the 1940 to 1946 conflict

@gregjones8412 10 ай бұрын

What a nice man. His story also says a lot about what a gent David Jason is too.

@StonersRabbitHole 10 ай бұрын

Such a legend

@heiltd1286 10 ай бұрын

I met Mr Merryfield in Slough in 1997. I had a good chat with him and bought his autobiography which he signed.

@maksimlipecki232 9 ай бұрын

True legend.

@edwardmorgan5373 10 ай бұрын

Very much like Nicholas Lyndhurst in terms of accent...don't expect him to sound so different in real life from Only Fools. RIP Buster...a legend

@michaeljagger7673 9 ай бұрын

Nick still sounded like himself tone wise but Busters voice was totally different to Uncle Albert's.

@Pepsi7 10 ай бұрын

A true British gent.

@the_trooper_72 10 ай бұрын

I'd have loved to have been in that pub singing along with the ol dears and Buster!!! What a fine man he was!!! 🙏🏻🤘🏻❤️

@paulwhite3637 10 ай бұрын

“Do you really know how to play the piano”? I was waiting for, “Well I’ll tell you son, During The War”……..🤣🤣

@pjcnet 10 ай бұрын

During the 1990s I remember visiting an old timers pub just like that in Ramsgate with an elderly gentleman on the piano and people all singing along.

@garyproffitt5941 10 ай бұрын

Harry "Buster" Merryfield(27 November 1920[1] - 23 June 1999) was an English actor best known for starring as Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses. Early life Merryfield was born and raised in Battersea, London, England. His father, also called Harry Merryfield, was a fitter, and his mother Lily (née Stone) was a part-time waitress. His sister Irene died when she was eight years old. He was given the name "Buster" by his grandfather, as he weighed nine pounds at birth, and it stuck throughout his entire life. He refused to divulge his real name, which only became known after his death. He followed a strict fitness regime of daily press-ups and swimming sessions. As a boxer, he was a British schoolboy champion in the 1936 and Southern Command army champion in 1945. He was also an amateur football player and Millwall supporter, regularly attending games at the Old Den. In contrast to his pipe-smoking and rum-drinking character Uncle Albert, Merryfield was a teetotaler and nonsmoker his entire life. Career Before turning professional as an actor Merryfield was a keen amateur actor and director. His productions of John Osborne's The Entertainer (1966), The World-My Canvas (1968) by Ruth Dixon and A View from the Bridge (1969) by Arthur Miller, for the now-defunct amateur theatre group the Characters, won Best Play at the Woking Drama Festival in 1966, 1968 and 1969 respectively. He also won the Best Actor trophy for his roles in The Entertainer and The World-My Canvas. Merryfield became a professional actor at the age of 57 after having worked for the Westminster Bank for nearly 40 years. He began work there on 11 July 1938 and passed his banking exams in 1939. During his time with the bank, he reached the position of senior area manager, but his banking career was interrupted by his war service. He spent the war in the army, where his physique allowed him to become a PT and jungle-warfare instructor. Awarded an emergency commission in the Royal Artillery on 13 March 1942, Merryfield was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. During the war is when he discovered his love of acting when he served as an entertainment officer staging shows for the troops. After the war, the now married Merryfield returned to the bank. At NatWest he rose through the ranks. In April 1967 he became manager of the Shepperton sub-branch and by the time of his early retirement in July 1978, he was a bank manager at the Thames Ditton branch in Surrey. After retiring, Merryfield persuaded a repertory company to admit him. He performed at the Connaught theatre in Worthing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Equus. Merryfield appeared in some small television parts, including Hannah in 1980, as Professor Challis in The Citadel in 1983 and as a bishop in Strangers and Brothers in 1984. Merryfield joined Only Fools and Horses in January 1985 as the former seafaring Albert Gladstone Trotter, known as Uncle Albert, who was Grandad Trotter's long-lost younger brother and was known for his catchphrase of "During the war...". The character was added after Lennard Pearce, who played Grandad, died in December 1984. Nine months earlier in March 1984, Merryfield and Pearce had costarred in two episodes of a Shroud for a Nightingale. Merryfield did much work for charities such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He wrote his autobiography, During the War and Other Encounters, in 1996. In December 1997, Merryfield fell at the British Comedy Awards while walking to the stage to collect an award for David Jason for his part in Only Fools and Horses. Despite cutting his forehead, he continued and collected the award. Merryfield appeared in pantomime during Christmas of 1997 and 1998 in the father role in Beauty and the Beast at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth. Personal life Merryfield could play the piano by ear but could not read music. He was also a fan of disco dancing. Death Merryfield died at Poole General Hospital on 23 June 1999 as a result of a brain tumour. He was survived by his wife Iris, whom he had married in June 1942, his daughter Karen and two grandchildren. He was buried at a cemetery near Verwood, Dorset. Iris died on 5 November 2002 and was buried alongside him. Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1983 The Citadel Professor Challis 2 episode 1984 Shroud for a Nightingale Sir Miles Honeyman 1 episode 1984 Strangers and Brothers Bishop 2 episodes 1985-1996 Only Fools and Horses Uncle Albert Trotter 37 episodes

@GremlinWWE Ай бұрын

Thank you for the laughs Buster you still live on as Uncle Albert making new generations of people laugh

@dspencer8827 10 ай бұрын

Awww. Bless him

@lhawksey 10 ай бұрын

Loved Uncle Albert and his stories that happened during the 1939-1945 conflict with Germany. Honestly didn’t expect him to sound so different

@DeanSpence-d9c 10 ай бұрын

True gentleman and an absolute legend. 😊

@caerleon9176 10 ай бұрын

I met him along Bournemouth seafront about that time as I was a local, maybe im in this footage.

@zebedep 10 ай бұрын

Great footage! RIP.

@jackmidd123 10 ай бұрын

So sad that he died just 3 years after this. Razor sharp and seemingly healthy. Never know what’s round the corner.

@danyoutube7491 10 ай бұрын

On the other hand, it's a blessing for him and those who knew him that he was still in good mental health near the last stage of his life :)

@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 10 ай бұрын

My sole claim to fame is spotting 'uncle albert' whilst in an empty building in Richmond looking out the ground floor huge glass windows. Me and another guy ran to the window banging on it shouting "uncle albert...uncle albert!!" Buster turned waved at us along flashing that lovely beaming smile of his! We later learned from the on site property agent that Buster lives close by and is a much loved local celebrity.

@ThisIsEngland1000 10 ай бұрын

Uncle Albert what a legend ..Always laugh hard at Albert saying to Rodders n Del about him being on a Russian convoy.. Cold? You kids don't know the meaning of the word! One night the flame on my lighter froze!😂

@GazH-zc7jj 10 ай бұрын

When he wet himself on the sofa and then Rodney came and sat down after 😂😂😂

@joemcconnell2674 9 ай бұрын

And that apple juice tastes horrible. 😂😂😂

@michaeljagger7673 9 ай бұрын

"During the 1939-1945 conflict"

@alisoninchausti1080 10 ай бұрын

The bugger CAN play all right! Those stride chords aren’t easy. He was great.

@MegaCunnie 10 ай бұрын

Nice to hear his ‘original’ voice 😂

@alexfletcher5192 10 ай бұрын

Lovely interview. He reminds me a little of talking to my late uncle, who was very bright and energetic and also harboured (unfulfilled) desires to perform in some kind of theatrical capacity.

@JayS1889 10 ай бұрын

Buster Merryfield RIP a great addition to the show after the late great Leonard Pierce. Only Fools and Horses will live on forever true British comedy.

@michaeljagger7673 9 ай бұрын

He never tried to replace Lennard Pearce and was great as himself.

@billycasper289 10 ай бұрын

Hope your resting in peace you'll live in forever

@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway 10 ай бұрын

A hero of comedy.

@TheHandsomeman 10 ай бұрын

He was amazing, in only fools and horses. And in Documentaries, they hardly mention him.

@Agui007 7 ай бұрын

"He's singing"! "I know" ! "Does he know you've banned him" ? 😂😂 Dear Buster what a charming actor and dearly missed!

@clivestuarteardley6049 10 ай бұрын

Great to see this

@TricksyBix 10 ай бұрын

I love that Buster, David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst are all very well spoken in real life, compared to their cockney characters!

@Jack-russell103 10 ай бұрын

What a lovely man

@thehomelessproject3784 10 ай бұрын

To hear his actual voice is so strange 😮 he did a very very good impression 👏

@OYARZABALLLLLL-MA-RIBS 10 ай бұрын

Doesn’t even sound like Uncle Albert. Legend of a guy!

@Leeann-rz3ei 10 ай бұрын

Hes an actor you berk.

@OYARZABALLLLLL-MA-RIBS 10 ай бұрын

@@Leeann-rz3ei “berk”. Wow, are you 90 years old? 🙄

@OYARZABALLLLLL-MA-RIBS 10 ай бұрын

@@Leeann-rz3ei And it’s “he’s”. And you’re missing a comma. Get an education. Chuckle.

@Leeann-rz3ei 10 ай бұрын

@@OYARZABALLLLLL-MA-RIBS strange thing to say about someone's you don't even know isn't it? My life is fantastic actually, i have a four bedroom house, a gorgeous fiance, two businesses on the go and now looking for a third. Also if i wanted your advice id ask for it, and your opinion means absolutely nothing to me.

@OYARZABALLLLLL-MA-RIBS 10 ай бұрын

@@Leeann-rz3ei yet you can’t even use a comma in “i’d”. Snigger. Chuckle. Owning you is so easy. Run along chunky.

@jamesmnaylor 10 ай бұрын

Oh my. How different he sounds from Uncle Albert.

@christopherchristos7275 10 ай бұрын

What a lovely fella.

@jonathonbrett-qn1ic 10 ай бұрын

Just brilliant

@thethairishsun 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful

@MonkeyMagicMonk 10 ай бұрын

Genius casting.

@tobytaylor2154 10 ай бұрын

I met him when he asked me for directions when I was about 16, many yrs ago. His voice had me thinking is it not it is, so I asked lol.

@lingolarker9318 10 ай бұрын

What a charming little video😊

@pvkoinch 8 ай бұрын

Footage quality looks like it's been shot today!

@CornwallGhosts Ай бұрын

He took Fools N Horses to another level. Sadly missed.

@Briand475 9 ай бұрын

Legend

@nathanrobson5734 5 ай бұрын

What an absolute gent

@fozzee6999 10 ай бұрын

Legend!

@chillired5389 10 ай бұрын

I’m not going to mention the name of the channel here on KZbin but someone visited the grave, where the late Buster Merryfield is buried alongside his late wife and never mentioned the fact that he was a former bank manager turned actor and that’s a very significant change in career after his retirement

@underneonloneliness2 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic picture quality for 1994. Just proves they had the great cameras back then it’s just the dodgy after recordings people do.

@Jimboscharacteruniverse 10 ай бұрын

What a clip

@barry-i9x 10 ай бұрын

RIP buster a comedy legend

@dandawson9404 10 ай бұрын

Buster ❤️❤️

@TheTelblackwell 10 ай бұрын

I remember my friend John seeing Buster as a kid, he shouted out uncle Albert! Buster apparently didn't look very impressed, lol

@jinz0 10 ай бұрын

Respect

@melvert33 10 ай бұрын

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles....Michael Jackson's favourite song.

@NH-bz9jv 10 ай бұрын

How original. I bet you are fun on a night out. Jesus🙄

@king77703 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂👍

@imalegend2006 10 ай бұрын

It's funny how Buster and Nicholas Lyndhurst will always be known for the voices they used for Albert and Rodney and yet the reality is they are both well spoken men.

@jehanariyaratnam2874 10 ай бұрын

I love when grandad grew a beard and they started calling him Uncle Albert

@stephenbuckby7700 10 ай бұрын

What a great gentleman and an fantastic actor WHOS RACHEAL

@Charlotte66666 10 ай бұрын

Lovely 😊

@LeeJohn70 10 ай бұрын

Uncle Albert was my favourite. During the War 👍👍😁 Lol

@hulkhogan12345 9 ай бұрын

Rip.. to an absolute legend. Still missed

@KathleenCarroll-m5s 10 ай бұрын

It played a brilliant part of uncle albert

@Seagull6819 10 ай бұрын

Interesting fact. Lennard Pearce (Grandad) also appeared in Shroud for a Nightingale.

@thomasm1964 10 ай бұрын

The description says this was recorder in 1994 but the clip title says 1996. Which one is it?

@201081hero 10 ай бұрын

It's definitely from 1994.

@Sm-iw2vh 10 ай бұрын

Such a musical talent to be able to hear a tune and know how to play it…. I know very few who can do this but they all put themselves down like buster does here, that’s because Unfortunately this huge skill is looked down on in musical educational settings, reading music and knowing where the notes are is much more important to them but this in no way makes a real musician….in my opinion it actually kills the creativity and emotion in music. This is a real musician and that natural skill is what makes music….music.