British actor Roger Lloyd Pack has died from pancreatic cancer at the young age of 69.

He was a very versatile actor who worked mostly in television but also starred in feature films. He was classical trained at RADA and won a London Critics Circle Award for his work in the theatre.

However, he will always be best remembered for portraying the ‘not so bright’ character Colin “Trigger” Ball in the brilliant TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses. Although John Sullivan wrote some of the funniest scripts ever to grace our television screens, Lloyd Pack delivered the lines with such impeccable timing and deadpan stare into space that he was taken into the hearts of the British public. The series ran from 1981 to 2003 and he appeared in 39 episodes. Whenever Trigger had something to say, you just knew that it was going to be hilarious. I can see my Dad now almost choking on his cup of tea as he was laughing so much at anything Trigger came out with.

Some of his other TV credits included The Protectors (73), Moving (85), Byker Grove (90) Doctor Who (2006) and many more. In 1994 he created another memorable character role with the foul- mouthed Owen Newitt in the Vicar of Dibley (1994 – 2007). More recently he played Tom Finnan in The Old Guys which only ran from 2009 to 2010.

Recent film credits included Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Bartemus Crouch, Made in Dagenham (2010) and Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (2011).

More impressive to me though was that he was an avid Tottenham Hotspur fan (who knew?) My favourite Trigger dialogue of all time has to be "If it's a girl they're calling her Sigourney after an actress," he said of Del Boy's new baby. "And if it's a boy they're naming him Rodney, after Dave."

Roger Lloyd Pack, a great loss to the world of entertainment. He died at his London home and is survived by his wife Jehane Markham and four children.