Portrait of Nicholas Lyndhurst

Nicholas Lyndhurst

Acting

Biography

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst is an English actor. He is known for playing Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart, Dan Griffin in the BBC drama New Tricks 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.

Born: April 20, 1961

Place of Birth: Emsworth, Hampshire, England

Filmography

2023
Frasier

as Alan Cornwall

2016
A United Kingdom

as George Williams

2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Rodney Trotter (archive footage) (uncredited)

2010
Rock & Chips

as Freddie Robdal

2010
Rock & Chips

as Freddie 'The Frog' Robdal

2007
After You've Gone

as Jimmy Venables

2006
The Children's Party at the Palace

as Cruella de Vil's Chauffeur (The 101 Dalmatians)

2005
Lassie

as Buckle

2004
New Tricks

as Danny Griffin

2001
Murder in Mind

as Alan Willis

1999
David Copperfield

as Uriah Heep

1996
1993
Goodnight Sweetheart

as Gary Sparrow

1993
Stalag Luft

as 'Chump' Cosgrove

1990
The Piglet Files

as Peter 'Piglet' Chapman

1986
Sky Bandits

as Chalky

1986
The Two of Us

as Ashley Phillips

1984
Slimming Down

as Sebastian

1983
Bullshot

as Nobby Clark

1982
The Funny Side of Christmas

as Rodney Trotter, Adam Parkinson

1982
1981
Only Fools and Horses

as Rodney Trotter

1979
Father's Day

as Phillip Rice-Davies

1978
Butterflies

as Adam Parkinson

1978
Fairies

as Brian Grant

1978
Spearhead

as Private Wilson

1978
Going Straight

as Raymond Fletcher

1977
BBC2 Play of the Week

as Brian Grant

1976
Peter Pan

as Toodles

1974
Heidi

as Peter

1973
Bequest to the Nation

as Shot Cabin Boy

1970
Play for Today

as Policeman

1951