Roger Lloyd-Pack's top five Trigger moments in Only Fools and Horses

His breakthrough came in 1981 when he was cast as Colin "Trigger" Ball, the dim but amiable roadsweeper who always called Nicholas Lyndhurst's Rodney character "Dave".

"If it's a girl they're calling her Sigourney after an actress," he said of Del Boy's child-to-be. "And if it's a boy they're naming him Rodney, after Dave."

See Roger Lloyd-Pack's best moments as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses:

Trigger explains why he calls Rodney 'Dave'

Trigger discusses Gandhi, the 'actor'

Trigger and Del-boy negotiate a dodgy-deal in the Nag's Head

Trigger gets the wrong idea in the bathroom

Initially seen as a supporting character, Trigger appeared in almost every episode of the long-running series, becoming very popular with the audience.

Lloyd-Pack's expressive face and sense of timing was best seen in his reaction in the famous scene where David Jason falls through an open bar hatch.

Never were his malleable features put to better use, with expressions veering from puzzlement to dawning comprehension.

Lloyd-Pack would go on to call the role 'both a blessing and a curse' and express bemusement about his popularity with audiences.

'It's extraordinary to me as an actor to find oneself in a sitcom that's been successful and goes on being successful," he said. "I can't go anywhere without anyone going on about it."