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Jason appeared on stage in the West End in the farce No Sex Please, We're British playing Brian Runnicles for 18 months in 1973. He also starred with Valerie Leon in a stage comedy "Darling Mr London" which toured in 1975. Jason's elder brother is the actor Arthur White, born in 1933. The two appeared together in the crime drama A Touch of Frost, with Arthur playing police archivist Ernie Trigg; and again in 2008, in the comic fantasy The Colour of Magic, where Arthur played a character called "Rerpf". He also appeared briefly with his brother in two episodes of The Darling Buds of May. Jason has won a total of eighteen awards between 1986 and 2011. His hit comedy show, Only Fools and Horses won many awards. His crime drama, A Touch of Frost, has also won and been nominated numerous times. Porterhouse Blue, The Second Quest, All the King's Men and A Bit of a Do have won David Jason one award each. In September 2017, it was reported that a "credible threat was made to his life", although it is not known why Jason had been targeted. [31] Works [ edit ] Books [ edit ] In 2022, Jason discovered that he had a daughter, Abi Harris, of whom he had been previously unaware, who was born in 1970 following a brief relationship with actress Jennifer Hill. [22] [23]

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The 1996 Only Fools Christmas special 'Time on Our Hands' was seen live by 24.35 million viewers and to this day is the UK's most-watched comedy show of all time. Del Boy Falls Through the Bar | Only Fools and Horses | BBC Comedy Greats". Archived from the original on 11 December 2021 – via www.youtube.com. episodes; A revival of the original series, featuring original cast members Lynda Baron and Maggie Ollerenshaw.Four series of Open All Hours were made from 1976 to 1985. He featured in Barker's Porridge (BBC), a prison comedy, as the elderly Blanco in three episodes. Jason also appeared with Barker in various disguises in The Two Ronnies, including providing the "raspberry" sound effect for The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town. When Jason was 15, he spent a year working as a mechanic's assistant. When he turned 16, he was eligible to register for an apprenticeship, but decided against it. [8] Radio and TV career [ edit ] Early years [ edit ]

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Sir David Jason and Jay Blades MBE's Touring Toolshed commissioned for BBC Two and iPlayer". bbc.com/mediacentre . Retrieved 23 June 2023. RUSSELL, DAVID O., JASON SCHWARTZMAN, ISABELLE HUPPERT, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, LILY TOMLIN, JUDE LAW, MARK WAHLBERG, NAOMI WATTS, GER DUANY Morgan, Sion (13 October 2013). "Sir David Jason opens up on tragic romance with Welsh actress". WalesOnline. At Least We're Not Throwing Bombs at Each Other': Actor David Jason on Germany's 'Fourth Reich' ". 18 December 2011.

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David Jason on TV-am in 1984". Archived from the original on 26 January 2023 – via www.youtube.com.

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Media, P. A. (27 March 2023). "David Jason 'delighted' to discover 52-year-old daughter he never knew". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 28 March 2023. Strictly Come Dancing 2021: Sir David Jason and Huw Edwards make surprise appearance during Christmas special". Metro. 25 December 2021 . Retrieved 20 January 2022. The Twelve Dels of Christmas: My Festive Tales from Life and Only Fools waterstones First Edition New Signed Jason started his television career in 1964 playing the part of Bert Bradshaw in Crossroads. In 1967, he played spoof super-hero Captain Fantastic, among other roles, in the children's comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set ( Rediffusion London/ ITV) with Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Denise Coffey, and Michael Palin. Humphrey Barclay, who recruited Jason to appear in Do Not Adjust Your Set (partly to counter the more highbrow style of Idle, Jones, and Palin), [9] admired his sense of timing. The programme ended in 1969, and the character then appeared for a time in the Thames Television children's programme Magpie. Jason appeared in the BBC comedy series Hugh and I in 1967, which starred Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as two friends who lived together in South London. He appeared in the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode " That's How Murder Snowballs" (1969) as Abel, a framed performer in a major London theatre.It's beautifully written . . . so conversational and chatty . . . it's so lovely and warm' CHRIS MOYLES Jason's father, Arthur Robert White, was a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, and his mother, Olwen Jones, was from Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, and worked as a charwoman. She gave birth to twin boys at North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton, London, in February 1940, but Jason's twin brother died during childbirth, making him a twinless twin. He chose the stage name Jason because he liked Jason and the Argonauts, as the stage name "David White" was already taken, and not in tribute to his dead twin as has sometimes been claimed. [6]

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In the 1970s, he also acted in radio comedies, including the weekly topical satire Week Ending (in which he regularly played such figures as then UK Foreign Secretary Dr David Owen) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (as the "B Ark Captain" in the sixth episode). Jason also appeared in The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately and made appearances on panel games such as The Impressionists as well as his own series, The Jason Explanation. In the early 1970s, he appeared in Mostly Monkhouse.Wilmut, Roger (1980). From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980. Eyre Methuen. p.181. In December 2021, Jason made a surprise cameo appearance on the Christmas Special of Strictly Come Dancing in the role of Del Boy to pass on a special message to The Repair Shop's Jay Blades, who was performing to the Only Fools and Horses theme tune. [16] Honours [ edit ] Deacon, Michael (11 October 2008). "David Jason: Interview". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 23 December 2011. David Jason". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016 . Retrieved 14 January 2021.

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