Trigger (Only Fools and Horses) Trigger (Only Fools and Horses) Colin Ball, more commonly known as Trigger, is a fictional character in the popular BBC sitcom "Only Fools and Horses" and its prequel "Rock & Chips". He was played by Roger Lloyd-Pack in "Only Fools and Horses" and Lewis Osbourne in "Rock & Chips". A regular at the Nag's Head pub, and old friend of Del Boy, Trigger is a road sweeper, and also appears to dabble in trading and petty thefts (though this status as a small-time thief is soon phased out of the character's development). He once supplied Del with paint which Del
Grandad (Only Fools and Horses) 'ethnic bus tours of old London' - and then failing to deliver the tour's publicity leaflets (a ploy only foiled when Del discovers the discarded leaflets in the dust-chute at Nelson Mandela House). "It wasn't me, Del Boy," Grandad wails on being discovered on this occasion; "It was me brain!" Grandad was also responsible for the spectacular (and noisy) failure of Del's chandelier cleaning business in "A Touch of Glass". When Lennard Pearce died in 1984, writer John Sullivan chose not to replace him but to write the character's death into the series. A funeral was held for Grandad in