Buster Merryfield

TV Actor

Buster Merryfield was born in Battersea, England, United Kingdom on November 27th, 1920 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 78, Buster Merryfield biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.

Other Names / Nick Names
Harry Merryfield
Date of Birth
November 27, 1920
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Battersea, England, United Kingdom
Death Date
Jun 23, 1999 (age 78)
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
Profession
Association Football Player, Comedian, Television Actor
Buster Merryfield Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 78 years old, Buster Merryfield has this physical status:

Height
168cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Not Available
Eye Color
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Build
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Measurements
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Buster Merryfield Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
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Hobbies
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Education
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Buster Merryfield Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Iris Mountford ​(m. 1942)​
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
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Buster Merryfield Career

Before turning professional as an actor Merryfield was a keen amateur actor and director. His productions of John Osborne's The Entertainer, The World–My Canvas by Ruth Dixon and A View from the Bridge 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 finally became a professional actor at the age of 57, after working for the Westminster Bank (later NatWest) for nearly forty years. He started work there on 11 July 1938. He passed his banking exams in 1939. During his time with the bank he reached the position of a Senior Area Bank Manager. His banking career was interrupted by his war service. In contrast to his most famous character, Merryfield spent the war in the army, where his physique resulted in him being made 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 (228987). It was during the war that he first discovered his love of acting when he served as an entertainments officer, putting on shows for the other troops. Merryfield was demobilised from the Army on 16 March 1946.

After the war, he married and with his wife expecting a daughter, he opted to return to his job at the bank. At NatWest he rose through the ranks, and by the time of his early retirement, in 1978, he was a bank manager at the Thames Ditton branch in Surrey. When he retired, Merryfield persuaded a repertory company to take him on. He performed at the Connaught theatre in Worthing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Equus. Small parts on television also came his way. Merryfield appeared in 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 took over the role of senior citizen member of the Trotter family from Lennard Pearce, who played Grandad, after Pearce died in December 1984. Coincidentally, nine months earlier, in March 1984, Merryfield and Pearce co-starred 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, he fell over 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 on and collected the award. Merryfield appeared in pantomime during Christmas in both 1997 and 1998 as the 'Father' in 'Beauty and the Beast' at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth.

Source

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Dare I say it?This sitcom is even funnier without Two Doors Doon

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 10, 2022
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Doon Mackichan's departure from Two Doors Down (BBC2) after nine years may have brought the series's to an end. Cathy's lairy, alcoholic, selfish monster of a suburban housewife, served like petrol on the script, sometimes fuelling chuckles, occasionally setting everything ablaze. However, the beauty of this sitcom is that it takes the smallest variation on a theme and makes something unique out of it.