Only Fools and Horses star who once shook hands with Hitler and regretted not killing him

Grandad wasn’t precisely the neatest card within the deck however he was a artful, humorous, and very loveable soul in Only Fools and Horses.

Real-name Edward Kitchener ‘Ted’ Trotter, he all the time minded the Trotters’ flat in Nelson Mandela House, Peckham, from his armchair as he not often left the household front room the place he famously watched a number of televisions units at once.

The scruffy pensioner had a straightforward life as Del Boy and Rodney earned the family’s dwelling promoting hooky gear round South London.

Played by Lennard Pearce, Grandad was stuffed with sarcasm and fast wit and made viewers snigger out loud with cheeky one-liners.

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Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney Trotter, David Jason as Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter and Lennard Pearce as Grandad

But off-screen Pearce had actual struggle tales to inform.

In truth, he met Adolf Hitler within the Thirties, which got here when he was in his early 20s, and missed a chance to assassinate him.

Pearce, who performed Granddad for 23 episodes, informed friends he regretted not grabbing a gun and killing him and thereby stopping the Second World War.

Born in 1915, Pearce relayed the story to actor pal and Only Fools And Horses co-star Nicholas Lyndhurst, The Mirror experiences.

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Lyndhurst stated: “He was a younger actor touring Europe and they had been enjoying some German metropolis and the Nazis walked in.

“The prime honchos of the Nazi celebration had seen the play and got here to congratulate them ­afterwards. Lennard shook hands with Adolf Hitler.

“He solely ever informed me once, however he stated: ‘Had I identified then what I do know now, I’d have drawn the pistol from one of many bodyguards and I’d have finished my greatest to kill him.”

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Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) in Munich within the spring of 1932.

Pearce died out of the blue from a coronary heart assault aged 69 in December 1984 throughout the fourth Only Fools and Horses sequence.

Steve Clark, creator of Only Fools and Horses – The Official Inside Story, added: “We’re used to listening to Uncle Albert’s tales about his fairly doubtful wartime service within the navy, nevertheless it’s unbelievable that Lennard Pearce really met Hitler throughout his rise to energy and may have put a cease to him earlier than he was in a position to take action a lot evil.”

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