The story starts in February 1960, by setting up the characters. Joan Trotter (Kellie Bright) is in an unhappy marriage with the work - shy Reg (Shaun Dingwall), whose father Ted (Phil Daniels) has just moved in. Her 15 - year - old son Derek, often shortened to Del Boy, (James Buckley) and his friends Boycie, Trigger, Jumbo Mills and new - in - town Denzil (Stephen Lloyd, Lewis Osborne, Lee Long and Ashley Gerlach) are still in school, following an increase in the school leaving age. Joan works at the local cinema with Trigger 's aunt Reenie Turpin (Emma Cooke) and Raymond (Billy Seymour) for cinema manager Ernie Rayner (Robert Daws), and at the Town Hall as "a part - time filing clerk who sometimes makes the tea ''. Convicted thief Freddie Robdal (Nicholas Lyndhurst) has just been released from Dartmoor Prison and returned to Peckham with explosives expert Gerald "Jelly '' Kelly (Paul Putner).
inbetweeners star who plays del boy in rock and chips
James Buckley