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Actor who enjoyed huge popularity in the role of Boycie in the BBC’s long-running sitcom Only Fools and HorsesThe actor John Challis, who has died of cancer aged 79, was familiar to the many millions of viewers of John Sullivan’s long-running BBC television sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003), in which he played the used-car salesman Boycie.The series depicted the aspirations of the deluded but determined Peckham market trader Derek “Del Boy” Trotter (David Jason) and his money-making schemes – “this time next year we’ll be millionaires,” he would optimistically assure his brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). After a modest start the series, with its flawed but lovable characters and sense of optimism in the face of disaster, became a huge hit and its characters national treasures. Continue reading...