Lennard Pearce (born 9th February 1915 in Paddington, London; died 15th December 1984 in Archway, London) appeared on Coronation Street in May 1969 as Newton & Ridley representative Mr Bracegirdle.
Lennard worked alongside such actors as Sir Laurence Olivier and Anthony Hopkins during his career and in 1966, he would have his first encounter with Sir David Jason in the play The Rivals.
Fifteen years later, both David and Lennard would become immortalised in television history as they starred in the now legendary sitcom Only Fools and Horses in which Lennard played the role of Grandad from 1981 to 1983.
He also appeared in Our Miss Pemberton, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Marked Personal and Shroud for a Nightingale.
On stage, he appeared in productions of Romeo and Juliet, Doctor Faustus, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Pericles, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other works include Black Chiffon, Dear Charles, Ring of Jackals, Three Men for Colverton, Tartuffe, Volpone, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Rivals, Arsenic and Old Lace and Tonight at 8.30.