Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst

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Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst (born 20 April 1961) is an English actor. He played Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart, and Adam Parkinson in Carla Lane’s series Butterflies. Lyndhurst also prominently starred as Ashley Philips in The Two of Us, as Fletch’s son Raymond in Going Straight, the sequel to the classic British sitcom Porridge, Jimmy Venables in After You’ve Gone, and Freddie ‘The Frog’ Robdal in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips.

IMDB Wikipedia $5 million 1961 1961-4-20 6′ 1½” (1.87 m) Actor April 20 Archie Bijörn Lyndhurst Emsworth England Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) Gulliver’s Travels (1996) Hampshire Lucy Smith Nicholas Lyndhurst Net Worth Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) Soundtrack Taurus The Two of Us (1986) UK

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst Quick Info

Full Name Nicholas Lyndhurst
Net Worth $5 Million
Date Of Birth April 20, 1961
Place Of Birth Emsworth, Hampshire, England, UK
Height 6′ 1½” (1.87 m)
Profession Actor, Soundtrack
Education Corona Theatre School
Spouse Lucy Smith
Children Archie Bijörn Lyndhurst
Parents Liz Long, Joe Lyndhurst
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528525
Awards National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performer
Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance, British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance, British Comedy Award for the Best TV Comedy Actor
Movies A United Kingdom, David Copperfield, Stalag Luft, Sky Bandits, Anne of Avonlea
TV Shows Rock & Chips, After You’ve Gone, Only Fools and Horses, Goodnight Sweetheart, The Piglet Files, The Two of Us, Butterflies, Spearhead, Going Straight

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst Quotes

  • [he and David Jason getting nervous before a recording of Only Fools and Horses] Why do we do this to ourselves?
  • [on Rock & Chips (2010)] If it had had the trappings of a sitcom I would probably have stayed away. If it had been filmed in front of a studio audience and if it had been too similar to Only Fools…. But it’s all shot on film, with a lot of location work, and it’s period stuff. This is a drama with some funny bits, as far as I’m concerned.
  • Up until he was about six, Archie didn’t know what I did for a living. I used to take him to Woolworths and we’d walk past the DVD section where there’d be pictures of me in Only Fools… or Goodnight Sweetheart. He just thought there was a picture of everybody’s daddy there!
  • I can’t think of Only Fools… (Only Fools and Horses…. (1981)) without smiling – if it can make you smile after 30 years, that’s good.

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst Important Facts

  • After the studio recording of Time on our Hands, the last episode of Only Fools and Horses…. (1981), the cast got a standing ovation longer than any David Jason had heard; it just went on and on and on. Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield and all the cast were joined by John Sullivan and they had a group hug on the set, all of them in tears.
  • When he came down with the flu during A Royal Flush, an episode of Only Fools and Horses…. (1981), it put the episode behind schedule, throwing production into a panic.
  • He and David Jason used to tease Lennard Pearce on Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) saying he was a lazy sod and that they were basically a 20-minute warm-up act for his one killer gag. Pearce would just say, “I’m old – I’m allowed”.
  • Once, he and David Jason brought a bag full of bangers into rehearsals for Only Fools and Horses…. (1981); they loaded the stacked chairs with them and the cubicle doors in the toilets. When production assistant Tony Dow unstacked the chairs, they went off, making him afraid to touch them. Jason and Lyndhurst thought it funny until a cleaning lady tried to mop the gents and nearly died of fright. They never pulled that prank again.
  • When David Jason was knighted in 2005, Lyndhurst couldn’t attend Jason’s after party for fifty people but John Sullivan did – Jason took the opportunity to announce his second wedding, to rapturous applause and table thumping.
  • Always before a live studio recording of Only Fools and Horses…. (1981), Lyndhurst and David Jason used to go to the canteen and have the same meal, almost like a ritual or a superstition, because they used to get so nervous.
  • Filming on the fourth series of Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) began in February, 1984. Lyndhurst and David Jason were in makeup when a distraught Ray Butt came in to tell them Lennard Pearce had died over the weekend of a heart attack; his body at the foot of a flight of stairs. Jason and Lyndhurst were shocked and speechless and filming was canceled. Pearce had not been a well man, he was a heavy smoker even on the job. Pearce’s funeral was several days later; a small and humble affair. Pearce didn’t have much in the way of family; his landlady and her daughter were the closest people to him, but the cast mourned him like losing a family member.
  • Close friends with his Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) co-star David Jason. Jason described them both as “a pair of silly Buddhas” and Lyndhurst as shiny-faced in his autobiography, and liked to call him Nick. They had met, along with Lennard Pearce, on other acting jobs before Only Fools and Horses…. (1981). Lyndhurst and Jason struck up an instant rapport in a motor-home while waiting to film location shoots, where they would mess about at the first opportunity. They used to play pranks on the set, e.g. pretending to have fallen out to worry the crew, or nailing Lennard Pearce’s shoes to the floor or turning his costume inside out. Although Pearce mostly saw the funny side of things, that day he refused to work until director Ray Butt talked him around and Jason and Lyndhurst apologized. Jason claimed it was the only time Pearce lost perspective.
  • On November 24th, 1986 Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) was honored with a slot at the Royal Variety Performance, something that excited the whole crew; David Jason, Lyndhurst and John Sullivan thought about either re-doing a bit from an old script, or from the current one, A Royal Flush, which was filming on the Dorset Coast, that year’s Christmas special. Sullivan opted for something new, a four-minute sketch Jason described as really neat. Del Boy, Rodney and Uncle Albert have a consignment of knock-off whiskey bottles, and mixed up meeting at a nightclub with the stage of the Theatre Royal, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Jason, Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield rehearsed it to within an inch of their lives. It was a scene they didn’t want to screw up. The tight schedule forced them to drive up from Dorset on the day of the show. There were so many acts at the Royal Variety that the dressing rooms of the Theatre Royal couldn’t house them. Watching the other acts from CCTV in their dressing room, they were the only ones doing something original, something that made them very nervous. They needn’t have worried; the show was a success. At the end of the sketch, Del sees the Queen Mother and mistakes her for they’re employer. When she waved back, Jason almost dried, because he was not expecting that. When they later met her, she said thank you; he was deeply touched, for five seconds when she said the exact same thing in the exact same tone to everyone else in the line. They then immediately went back to Dorset to finish A Royal Flush; they settled their adrenalin with bottles of whiskey and water, except for Merryfield who never drank. Jason said it was a lovely interlude.
  • His likeness was used on David Jason’s 50th birthday cake as Rodney and Del Boy from an episode of Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) where they end up with blowup dolls; Jason’s wife thought it in poor taste and Jason saw her point, although he said the baker was an artist with the marzipan.
  • When Barry Gibb made a cameo in an episode of Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) set in Miami, he invited Lyndhurst and David Jason into his house, gave them tea and showed them around; the place was like a palace. Gibb was a big fan of the show and used to get tapes of it sent to America.
  • During the Gulf War, David Jason met someone in a pub who worked at RAF Command Headquarters. He told Jason they race 3-wheel vans against each other, paint them yellow with Trotters Independent Traders down the sides of them like the van from Only Fools and Horses…. (1981). Jason went down to have a look, but he didn’t see a race. Jason, Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield sent a Trotters van out to Kuwait. They slipped it into a Hercules plane among other stuff on a supply run and when it was unloaded the crew would find the van, filled up with chewing gum, toothpaste, cake and Danger Mouse (1981) and Count Duckula (1988) tapes from Brian Cosgrove with labels saying Debbie Does Dallas and Unzipperdedoodah and all sorts to amuse them. Jason didn’t ask for any publicity because he didn’t want anyone to think it was just for that, but a private joke between the RAF and the Trotters. The van was put in the hold and covered up with medical supplies and ammunition and flew to Kuwait, where its discovery brought some light relief.
  • Buster Merryfield used to get nervous during his early days on Only Fools and Horses…. (1981) and kept crashing into the audience (delivering his lines before the laughter had died down), meaning his scenes had to be re-recorded. He also used to dry up and lose his words, something that really got to him. Lyndhurst and David Jason would sit him down for a talk when he worried he wouldn’t last. Whenever they made mistakes in the middle of a recording, they would blame someone and make it into a joke. If the audience thought you didn’t care, they would relax and feel part of the joke. After that, Merryfield cracked his problem, relaxed into the show and the new partnership and became the lovable Uncle Albert.
  • Appearing in “The Dresser” at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London [May 2005]
  • His uncle, Richard Lyndhurst was an actor in Donald Wolfit’s company.
  • When he did a series of adverts for WH Smith a few years ago in which he played an entire family of four, he admitted to enjoying playing the mum best.
  • He has no interest in the showbiz scene, avoiding parties and social events in favour of diving which his life-long passion.
  • He is the result of an affair his mother had with a married man. He admits that he used to be shy of marriage as his father treated his mother very badly but took the plunge with his long-term girlfriend, Lucy
  • Attended the Corona Stage Academy.

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
A United Kingdom 2016 George Williams Actor
Goodnight Sweetheart 1993-2016 TV Series Gary
Gary Sparrow
Colonel Henri Dupont
Actor
New Tricks 2013-2015 TV Series Danny Griffin Actor
Only Fools and Horses: Beckham in Peckham 2014 TV Short Rodney Trotter Actor
After You’ve Gone 2007-2008 TV Series Jimmy Actor
After You’ve Gone: Deleted Scenes 2008 Video short Jimmy Actor
The Children’s Party at the Palace 2006 TV Special Cruella de Vil’s Chauffeur (The 101 Dalmatians) Actor
Lassie 2005 Buckle Actor
Only Fools and Horses…. 1981-2003 TV Series Rodney Trotter Actor
Murder in Mind 2003 TV Series Alan Willis Actor
Thin Ice 2000 TV Movie Graham Moss Actor
Butterflies Reunion Special 2000 TV Short Adam Parkinson Actor
David Copperfield 1999 TV Mini-Series Uriah Heep Actor
Only Fools and Horses: Only Fools Cutaway 1997 TV Short Rodney Actor
Gulliver’s Travels 1996 TV Mini-Series Clustril Actor
Stalag Luft 1993 TV Movie ‘Chump’ Cosgrove Actor
The Two of Us 1986-1990 TV Series Ashley Phillips Actor
Sky Bandits 1986 Chalky Actor
The Lenny Henry Show 1984-1985 TV Series Actor
Round and Round 1984 TV Series Patrick Actor
Bullshot Crummond 1983 Nobby Clark Actor
Butterflies 1978-1983 TV Series Adam Parkinson Actor
It’ll All Be Over in Half an Hour 1983 TV Series Various Characters Actor
Michael Barrymore 1983 TV Series Actor
Only Fools and Horses: Christmas Trees 1982 TV Short Rodney Trotter Actor
Play for Today 1982 TV Series Young Police Constable Actor
Arena 1982 TV Series documentary Dennis Actor
Spearhead 1981 TV Series Private Wilson Actor
To Serve Them All My Days 1980 TV Mini-Series Dobson Actor
Two People 1979 TV Series Matthew Actor
Father’s Day 1979 TV Movie Philip Actor
BBC2 Play of the Week 1978 TV Series Brian Grant Actor
ITV Playhouse 1978 TV Series Westbrook Actor
The Tomorrow People 1978 TV Series Karl Brandt Actor
Going Straight 1978 TV Series Raymond Fletcher Actor
Peter Pan 1976 TV Movie Tootles Actor
The Prince and the Pauper 1976 TV Series Tom Canty
Prince Edward
Actor
Anne of Avonlea 1975 TV Mini-Series Davy Keith Actor
Heidi 1974 TV Mini-Series Peter Actor
The Nelson Affair 1973 Shot Cabin Boy (uncredited) Actor
Only Fools and Horses…. TV Series 1 episode, 1981 performer – 1 episode, 1982 Soundtrack
Butterflies 1978 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
The Comedy Genius of John Sullivan 2011 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The One Show 2010 TV Series Himself Self
After You’ve Gone: Outtakes 2008 Video short Himself / Jimmy Venables (uncredited) Self
This Morning 2007 TV Series Himself Self
Parkinson 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Richard & Judy 2004 TV Series Himself Self
The Story of ‘Only Fools and Horses….’ 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself / Rodney Trotter Self
Comic Relief 1997 TV Special Rodney Trotter Self
Comic Relief 1991 TV Special Himself Self
Comic Relief 1988 TV Special Himself Self
Aspel & Company 1988 TV Series Himself Self
The Grand Knockout Tournament 1987 TV Special Himself Self
Blankety Blank 1984-1985 TV Series Himself Self
The Kenny Everett Television Show 1982 TV Series Himself / Various Self
Head for Business 1982 Documentary short Self
The Saturday Banana 1978 TV Series Himself – Presenter Self
Our Show 1977 TV Series Himself – Presenter Self
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves 2016 TV Movie documentary Rodney Trotter (uncredited) Archive Footage
South at Six 2016 TV Series Rodney Trotter Archive Footage
Too Much TV 2016 TV Series Rodney Trotter – Only Fool and Horses Archive Footage
The Many Faces of… 2010 TV Series documentary Rodney Trotter Archive Footage
The Green Green Grass 2009 TV Series Rodney Trotter Archive Footage
The Greatest Christmas Comedy Moments 2008 TV Movie documentary Rodney Trotter (uncredited) Archive Footage
Comedy Connections 2007-2008 TV Series documentary Adam Parkinson
Rodney Trotter
Archive Footage
How TV Changed Britain 2008 TV Series documentary Adam Parkinson Archive Footage
50 Greatest Comedy Catchphrases 2008 TV Movie documentary Rodney Trotter (uncredited) Archive Footage
The Comedy Christmas 2007 TV Movie documentary Rodney Trotter (uncredited) Archive Footage
All the Best from Denis Norden 2007 TV Movie documentary Ashley Phillips (uncredited) Archive Footage
The Best of the Royal Variety 2006 TV Series Rodney Trotter Archive Footage
Before They Were Famous 1999 TV Series advert ‘Spangles’ 1975 – Episode dated 25 December 1999 1999 … advert ‘Spangles’ 1975 Archive Footage

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
1999 National Television Award National Television Awards, UK Most Popular Comedy Performer Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) Won
1998 National Television Award National Television Awards, UK Most Popular Comedy Performer Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) Won
1999 National Television Award National Television Awards, UK Most Popular Comedy Performer Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) Nominated
1998 National Television Award National Television Awards, UK Most Popular Comedy Performer Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) Nominated