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{{Short description|British actor (born 1940)}}{{Use British English|date=December 2024}}
{{Short description|British actor (born 1940)}}{{Use British English|date=December 2024}}
{{redirects|David John White|the cricketer|David White (New Zealand cricketer)}}
{{redirects|David John White|the cricketer|David White (New Zealand cricketer)}}
{{confused|Jason David|Jason David Frank}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix  = [[Sir]]
| honorific_prefix  = [[Sir]]
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| birth_place        = [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]], [[Middlesex]], England
| birth_place        = [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]], [[Middlesex]], England
| occupation        = Actor
| occupation        = Actor
| notable_works  = {{plainlist|
* ''[[Open All Hours]]''
* ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''
* ''[[The Darling Buds of May (TV series)|The Darling Buds of May]]''
* ''[[A Touch of Frost]]''
* ''[[Still Open All Hours]]''}}
| years_active      = 1963–present
| years_active      = 1963–present
| spouse            = {{marriage|Gill Hinchcliffe|30 November 2005}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/david-jason-marries-in-secret-1094299|title=David Jason marries in secret|date=1 December 2005|website=Manchester Evening News}}</ref>
| spouse            = {{marriage|Gill Hinchcliffe|30 November 2005}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/david-jason-marries-in-secret-1094299|title=David Jason marries in secret|date=1 December 2005|website=Manchester Evening News}}</ref>
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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 University Hospital|North Middlesex Hospital]] in [[Edmonton, London]], on 2 February 1940, but Jason's twin brother died during childbirth, and making him a [[twinless twin]]. He chose the stage name Jason because he liked ''[[Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hughes |first=Heather |url=http://www.tv.com/people/david-jason/ |title=David Jason |publisher=TV.com |access-date=13 June 2012 |archive-date=30 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930110436/http://www.tv.com/people/david-jason/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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 University Hospital|North Middlesex Hospital]] in [[Edmonton, London]], on 2 February 1940, but Jason's twin brother died during childbirth, and making him a [[twinless twin]]. He chose the stage name Jason because he liked ''[[Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hughes |first=Heather |url=http://www.tv.com/people/david-jason/ |title=David Jason |publisher=TV.com |access-date=13 June 2012 |archive-date=30 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930110436/http://www.tv.com/people/david-jason/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Jason lived at Lodge Lane, [[North Finchley]], and attended Northfield Secondary Modern school after failing the [[Eleven-plus|11-plus]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3621779/The-return-of-the-secondary-modern.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3621779/The-return-of-the-secondary-modern.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The return of the secondary modern|first=Cassandra|last=Jardine|date=4 August 2004|website=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Upon leaving school, Jason wanted to be an actor, influenced by his brother, but their father advised that he first learn a trade. He trained as an [[electrician]] for six years, before retiring and becoming a struggling actor.
Jason lived at Lodge Lane, [[North Finchley]], and attended Northfield Secondary Modern school after failing the [[Eleven-plus|11-plus]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3621779/The-return-of-the-secondary-modern.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3621779/The-return-of-the-secondary-modern.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The return of the secondary modern|first=Cassandra|last=Jardine|date=4 August 2004|website=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Upon leaving school, Jason wanted to be an actor, influenced by his elder brother (Arthur White), but their father advised that he first learn a trade. He trained as an [[electrician]] for six years, before retiring and becoming a struggling actor.


Jason's elder brother is the actor [[Arthur White (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 [[Fantasy comedy|comic fantasy]] ''[[The Colour of Magic (TV film)|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 (TV series)|The Darling Buds of May]]''.
Jason's elder brother is the actor [[Arthur White (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 [[Fantasy comedy|comic fantasy]] ''[[The Colour of Magic (TV film)|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 (TV series)|The Darling Buds of May]]''.
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Jason started his television career in the made-for-TV film ''Mother Goose'' (1965). He played Bert Bradshaw in ''[[Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]'' in 1966. In the following year, he played spoof super-hero [[Captain Fantastic (TV series)|Captain Fantastic]], among other roles, in the children's comedy series ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' ([[Associated Rediffusion|Rediffusion London]]/[[ITV (TV network)|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),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilmut|first1=Roger|title=From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980|date=1980|publisher=Eyre Methuen|page=181}}</ref> 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 (TV series)|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.
Jason started his television career in the made-for-TV film ''Mother Goose'' (1965). He played Bert Bradshaw in ''[[Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]'' in 1966. In the following year, he played spoof super-hero [[Captain Fantastic (TV series)|Captain Fantastic]], among other roles, in the children's comedy series ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' ([[Associated Rediffusion|Rediffusion London]]/[[ITV (TV network)|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),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilmut|first1=Roger|title=From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980|date=1980|publisher=Eyre Methuen|page=181}}</ref> 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 (TV series)|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.


In 1968, Jason was initially cast in the role of [[Lance Corporal Jones]] in the [[Jimmy Perry]] and [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]] BBC comedy ''[[Dad's Army]]''. Croft had been very impressed with Jason and believed that he had the talent to play a man much older than his real age, but BBC executive [[Bill Cotton]] overruled him, casting [[Clive Dunn]] because he was better known. According to Jason, "I was cast at 12 o'clock and sacked by three."<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2003/04_april/rt_jason_bafta.shtml | title= Jason to receive this year's BAFTA Fellowship | work=BBC Online| date=7 April 2003 | access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref> Jason also missed out on the starring role of Frank Spencer in ''[[Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em]]'' in 1973 because BBC executives at the time believed that he lacked "star quality".<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/26/david-jason-rejected-lead-role-mothers-do-ave-em-bbc-execs-thought/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/26/david-jason-rejected-lead-role-mothers-do-ave-em-bbc-execs-thought/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title= David Jason rejected for lead role in Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em because BBC execs thought he lacked 'star quality' | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | date=26 March 2021 | access-date=5 April 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
In 1968, Jason was initially cast in the role of [[Lance Corporal Jones]] in the [[Jimmy Perry]] and [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]] BBC comedy ''[[Dad's Army]]''. Croft had been very impressed with Jason and believed that he had the talent to play a man much older than his real age (though he was only 28 at the time) but BBC executive [[Bill Cotton]] overruled him, casting [[Clive Dunn]] because he was better known. According to Jason, "I was cast at 12 o'clock and sacked by three."<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2003/04_april/rt_jason_bafta.shtml | title= Jason to receive this year's BAFTA Fellowship | work=BBC Online| date=7 April 2003 | access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref> Jason also missed out on the starring role of Frank Spencer in ''[[Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em]]'' in 1973 because BBC executives at the time believed that he lacked "star quality".<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/26/david-jason-rejected-lead-role-mothers-do-ave-em-bbc-execs-thought/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/26/david-jason-rejected-lead-role-mothers-do-ave-em-bbc-execs-thought/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title= David Jason rejected for lead role in Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em because BBC execs thought he lacked 'star quality' | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | date=26 March 2021 | access-date=5 April 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>


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 [[David Owen|Dr David Owen]]) and ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|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''.
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 [[David Owen|Dr David Owen]]) and ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|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''.
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===Children's television===
===Children's television===
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In the 1980s, Jason developed a working partnership with [[Cosgrove Hall]], and was a [[Voice acting|voice-over artist]] for a number of children's television productions. This included voices for ''[[Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)|Danger Mouse]]'', ''[[The BFG (1989 film)|The BFG]]'', ''[[Count Duckula]]'', Hugo from ''[[Victor and Hugo]]'', and Toad from ''[[The Wind in the Willows (TV series)|The Wind in the Willows]]'', all produced by Cosgrove Hall for [[Thames Television]]/ITV. He provided the voice of Father Christmas in ''Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer'', Rola Polar in ''The Adventures of Dawdle the Donkey'', ''[[Angelmouse]]'', and did voices in animated films including ''[[Wombling Free]]'' and ''[[The Water Babies (film)|The Water Babies]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jason |first=David |date=2013|title=David Jason: My Life |publisher=Random House |page=1216 |isbn=9781448164202 }}</ref>
In the 1980s, Jason developed a working partnership with [[Cosgrove Hall]], and was a [[Voice acting|voice-over artist]] for a number of children's television productions. This included voices for ''[[Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)|Danger Mouse]]'', ''[[The BFG (1989 film)|The BFG]]'', ''[[Count Duckula]]'', Hugo from ''[[Victor and Hugo]]'', and Toad from ''[[The Wind in the Willows (TV series)|The Wind in the Willows]]'', all produced by Cosgrove Hall for [[Thames Television]]/ITV. He provided the voice of Father Christmas in ''Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer'', Rola Polar in ''The Adventures of Dawdle the Donkey'', ''[[Angelmouse]]'', and did voices in animated films including ''[[Wombling Free]]'' and ''[[The Water Babies (film)|The Water Babies]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jason |first=David |date=2013|title=David Jason: My Life |publisher=Random House |page=1216 |isbn=9781448164202 }}</ref>


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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Jason lived with his long-term girlfriend, Welsh actress [[Myfanwy Talog]], for 18 years and nursed her through [[breast cancer]] until she died in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Shillcock|first1=Francesca |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2020101398971/a-touch-of-frost-david-jason-who-is-his-wife-gill/|title=Who is David Jason married to? All you need to know|date=13 October 2020|work=[[Hello!_(magazine)|Hello!]]|access-date= 28 March 2023}}</ref>
Jason lived with his long-term girlfriend, Welsh actress [[Myfanwy Talog]], for 18 years and nursed her through [[breast cancer]] until she died in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Shillcock|first1=Francesca |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2020101398971/a-touch-of-frost-david-jason-who-is-his-wife-gill/|title=Who is David Jason married to? All you need to know|date=13 October 2020|work=[[Hello! (magazine)|Hello!]]|access-date= 28 March 2023}}</ref>


On 26 February 2001, Jason became a father at the age of 61 when his girlfriend, 41-year-old Gill Hinchcliffe, gave birth to a girl in [[Stoke Mandeville Hospital]], [[Aylesbury]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1324288/David-Jasons-new-role-as-father-at-61.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1324288/David-Jasons-new-role-as-father-at-61.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=David Jason's new role as father at 61|date=27 February 2001|work=The Telegraph|access-date=19 November 2009|location=London, UK|first=Richard|last=Alleyne}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Jason and Hinchcliffe married in 2005 and live in [[Ellesborough]], [[Buckinghamshire]].
On 26 February 2001, Jason became a father at the age of 61 when his girlfriend, 41-year-old Gill Hinchcliffe, gave birth to a girl in [[Stoke Mandeville Hospital]], [[Aylesbury]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1324288/David-Jasons-new-role-as-father-at-61.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1324288/David-Jasons-new-role-as-father-at-61.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=David Jason's new role as father at 61|date=27 February 2001|work=The Telegraph|access-date=19 November 2009|location=London, UK|first=Richard|last=Alleyne}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Jason and Hinchcliffe married in 2005 and live in [[Ellesborough]], [[Buckinghamshire]].
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In 2022, Jason discovered that he had another daughter, of whom he had been previously unaware, who was born in 1970 following a brief relationship with actress Jennifer Hill.<ref name="Indy28323">{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Isobel |title=Surprise is an understatement': David Jason discovers 52-year-old daughter he didn't know existed |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/david-jason-daughter-abi-harris-b2309179.html |access-date=28 March 2023 |work=Independent |date=28 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Media |first=P. A. |date=2023-03-27 |title=David Jason 'delighted' to discover 52-year-old daughter he never knew |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/mar/27/david-jason-delighted-to-discover-52-year-old-daughter-he-never-knew |access-date=2023-03-28 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
In 2022, Jason discovered that he had another daughter, of whom he had been previously unaware, who was born in 1970 following a brief relationship with actress Jennifer Hill.<ref name="Indy28323">{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Isobel |title=Surprise is an understatement': David Jason discovers 52-year-old daughter he didn't know existed |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/david-jason-daughter-abi-harris-b2309179.html |access-date=28 March 2023 |work=Independent |date=28 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Media |first=P. A. |date=2023-03-27 |title=David Jason 'delighted' to discover 52-year-old daughter he never knew |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/mar/27/david-jason-delighted-to-discover-52-year-old-daughter-he-never-knew |access-date=2023-03-28 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>


Jason is a patron of the Shark Trust,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sharktrust.org/en/sir_david_jason|title=The Shark Trust – Sir David Jason|website=sharktrust.org|access-date=17 August 2014|archive-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819091236/http://www.sharktrust.org/en/sir_david_jason|url-status=dead}}</ref> a United Kingdom registered charity working to advance the worldwide conservation of sharks through science, education, influence and action. He has also been Honorary Vice Patron of the [[Royal International Air Tattoo]] since 1999, and on 29 May 2014, presented a cheque on behalf of the [[Fairford]]-based ''RAF Charitable Trust'' for £125,000 to the British [[Royal Air Force Air Cadets|RAF Air Cadet Organisation]], to fund flight simulators for Air Cadets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/del-boy-marks-trusts-1-million-moment-30052014|title='Del Boy' Marks Trust's £1 Million Moment|first=Jane|last=Leigh|date=30 May 2014|website=raf.mod.uk|access-date=17 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829040013/https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/del-boy-marks-trusts-1-million-moment-30052014|archive-date=29 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jason is a qualified [[helicopter]] pilot.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|last=Deacon|first=Michael|title=David Jason: Interview|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561994/David-Jason-Interview.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561994/David-Jason-Interview.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=23 December 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=11 October 2008|location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Jason is a patron of the Shark Trust,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sharktrust.org/en/sir_david_jason|title=The Shark Trust – Sir David Jason|website=sharktrust.org|access-date=17 August 2014|archive-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819091236/http://www.sharktrust.org/en/sir_david_jason|url-status=dead}}</ref> a United Kingdom registered charity working to advance the worldwide conservation of sharks through science, education, influence and action. He has also been Honorary Vice Patron of the [[Royal International Air Tattoo]] since 1999, and on 29 May 2014, presented a cheque on behalf of the [[Fairford]]-based ''RAF Charitable Trust'' for £125,000 to the [[Royal Air Force Air Cadets|RAF Air Cadet Organisation]], to fund flight simulators for Air Cadets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/del-boy-marks-trusts-1-million-moment-30052014|title='Del Boy' Marks Trust's £1 Million Moment|first=Jane|last=Leigh|date=30 May 2014|website=raf.mod.uk|access-date=17 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829040013/https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/del-boy-marks-trusts-1-million-moment-30052014|archive-date=29 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jason is a qualified [[helicopter]] pilot.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|last=Deacon|first=Michael|title=David Jason: Interview|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561994/David-Jason-Interview.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561994/David-Jason-Interview.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=23 December 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=11 October 2008|location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>


Jason has expressed a negative opinion of the [[European Union]], being quoted in a 2012 interview with "the [[States of Germany|Germans]] want to run [[Europe]]. The irony is that here we are, the world has changed, and the Germans want to run Europe. They failed to do it by war, twice. What is it? Is this the [[Fourth Reich]]?"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/18/david-jason-only-fools-horses-star-germany-fourth-reich_n_1156239.html | title='At Least We're Not Throwing Bombs at Each Other': Actor David Jason on Germany's 'Fourth Reich' |work=Huffington Post| date=18 December 2011 }}</ref>
Jason has expressed a negative opinion of the [[European Union]], being quoted in a 2012 interview with "the [[States of Germany|Germans]] want to run [[Europe]]. The irony is that here we are, the world has changed, and the Germans want to run Europe. They failed to do it by war, twice. What is it? Is this the [[Fourth Reich]]?"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/18/david-jason-only-fools-horses-star-germany-fourth-reich_n_1156239.html | title='At Least We're Not Throwing Bombs at Each Other': Actor David Jason on Germany's 'Fourth Reich' |work=Huffington Post| date=18 December 2011 }}</ref>
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| ''David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star'' || Himself || [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] documentary; a retrospective look at David Jason's career.
| ''David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star'' || Himself || [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] documentary; a retrospective look at David Jason's career.
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| rowspan="2" | 2021 || ''The Lancaster Bomber at 80 with David Jason'' || Narrator || Documentary celebrating the history of the iconic [[World War II]] bomber.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/pbnb29/the-lancaster-bomber-at-80-with-david-jason/|title=The Lancaster Bomber at 80 with David Jason|website=radiotimes.com|access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" | 2021 || ''The Lancaster Bomber at 80 with David Jason'' || Narrator || Documentary celebrating the history of the iconic [[World War II]] bomber.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/pbnb29/the-lancaster-bomber-at-80-with-david-jason/|title=The Lancaster Bomber at 80 with David Jason|website=radiotimes.com|access-date=15 October 2021|archive-date=18 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018205414/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/pbnb29/the-lancaster-bomber-at-80-with-david-jason/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]''
|''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]''
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|Episode; Datsun 240K Skyline
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|''Open All Hours: Inside Out''
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|''[[Open All Hours]]'' 50th anniversary documentary<ref>{{cite web|url=https://corporate.uktv.co.uk/newsroom/granville-opens-up-one-last-time-for-uandgold-in-open-all-hours-inside-out-3|title=Granville opens up one last time for U&GOLD in Open All Hours: Inside Out|website=corporate.uktv.co.uk|accessdate=17 September 2025}}</ref>
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| 1978 || ''[[The Odd Job]]'' || Odd Job Man ||
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Sir David John White (born 2 February 1940[1][2]), known professionally as David Jason, is an English actor. He has played Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the drama series A Touch of Frost, Granville in the sitcoms Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in the comedy drama series The Darling Buds of May, as well as voicing several cartoon characters, including Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows, the BFG in the 1989 film of the same name, and the title characters of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.

In September 2006, Jason had topped the poll to find TV's 50 Greatest Stars, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations.[3] He was knighted in 2005 for services to acting and comedy. Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), (1988, 1991, 1997, 2003), four British Comedy Awards (1990, 1992, 1997, 2001) and seven National Television Awards (1996 twice, 1997, 2001 twice, 2002 and 2011).

Early life

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, on 2 February 1940, but Jason's twin brother died during childbirth, and 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.[4]

Jason lived at Lodge Lane, North Finchley, and attended Northfield Secondary Modern school after failing the 11-plus in 1951.[5] Upon leaving school, Jason wanted to be an actor, influenced by his elder brother (Arthur White), but their father advised that he first learn a trade. He trained as an electrician for six years, before retiring and becoming a struggling actor.

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.

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.[6]

Radio and TV career

Early years

Jason started his television career in the made-for-TV film Mother Goose (1965). He played Bert Bradshaw in Crossroads in 1966. In the following year, 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),[7] 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.

In 1968, Jason was initially cast in the role of Lance Corporal Jones in the Jimmy Perry and David Croft BBC comedy Dad's Army. Croft had been very impressed with Jason and believed that he had the talent to play a man much older than his real age (though he was only 28 at the time) but BBC executive Bill Cotton overruled him, casting Clive Dunn because he was better known. According to Jason, "I was cast at 12 o'clock and sacked by three."[8] Jason also missed out on the starring role of Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em in 1973 because BBC executives at the time believed that he lacked "star quality".[9]

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.

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 appeared in variety shows as the supporting act of Dick Emery and his performances caught the attention of Ronnie Barker. Jason was recruited to appear in Hark at Barker (LWT, 1969), starring opposite Barker's Lord Rustless, as Dithers, the 100-year old gardener. There was also a sequel, His Lordship Entertains (1972) for the BBC. Jason played idealistic employee Granville in the first programme of the comedy anthology Seven of One (1973), called Open All Hours (BBC) and starring Barker as the curmudgeonly proprietor of a corner shop.

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.

Jason starred in London Weekend Television's Lucky Feller (1975–76), written by Terence Frisby and produced by Humphrey Barclay. About two brothers in south-east London, the series was in many ways a forerunner to Only Fools And Horses.[10] He played the lead role of Peter Barnes in the ATV sitcom A Sharp Intake of Breath (1977–81), alongside Alun Armstrong and Richard Wilson. In 1979, he appeared as Buttons in the pantomime Cinderella at Newcastle's Theatre Royal, starring Leah Bell and Bobby Thompson, produced by Michael Grayson and directed by John Blackmore.

Children's television

In the 1980s, Jason developed a working partnership with Cosgrove Hall, and was a voice-over artist for a number of children's television productions. This included voices for Danger Mouse, The BFG, Count Duckula, Hugo from Victor and Hugo, and Toad from The Wind in the Willows, all produced by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television/ITV. He provided the voice of Father Christmas in Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer, Rola Polar in The Adventures of Dawdle the Donkey, Angelmouse, and did voices in animated films including Wombling Free and The Water Babies.[11]

Transition into a leading man

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Jason with Corporal Oliver Kennedy and Hermione Norris at the Sun Military Awards in 2012

In 1981, Jason was cast as Del Boy Trotter in the BBC situation comedy Only Fools and Horses, created by John Sullivan. Del is a wide boy who makes a dishonest living in Peckham, south London, trading in broken, stolen, and counterfeit goods. He is assisted by his brother Rodney (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Grandad (played by Lennard Pearce) and, in later episodes, Uncle Albert (played by Buster Merryfield).

In 1989, Jason starred as Ted Simcock in the ITV drama series A Bit of a Do, aired from January to December.

In 1999, Jason starred as Captain Frank Beck in BBC's feature-length drama All the King's Men about the Sandringham regiment lost in World War I. He earned acclaim for a string of serious roles. These include Skullion in Porterhouse Blue (for Channel 4), Sidney "Pop" Larkin in the rural idyll The Darling Buds of May (Yorkshire Television/ITV), based on the H. E. Bates novel, which also featured Catherine Zeta-Jones.

In 1992, he signed a golden handcuffs deal with ITV to star as Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the long-running TV series A Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television/ITV). In September 2006, he was voted by the general public as No. 1 in ITV's poll of TV's Greatest Stars.[12] In December 2006, he starred in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather on Sky1 as Albert. In early 2007, he starred in Diamond Geezer (Granada Television/ITV). This series ran for 3 episodes of 90 minutes each. There was a pilot in 2005. In March 2008, he starred as Rincewind in Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, and in the two part ITV drama Ghostboat.

On 16 September 2008, Jason announced that he would step down from his role as Jack Frost after 16 years.[13] Three new episodes of the show were shown in autumn 2008, and were followed by a two-part finale in 2010. Approached by BBC1 controller Danny Cohen in early 2011, he read three scripts and agreed to shoot a pilot for The Royal Bodyguard, which was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The pilot episode aired on the BBC on Boxing Day but received a poor critical response. The series was axed after six episodes. In 2010, Jason starred in a made-for-TV movie Come Rain Come Shine with Alison Steadman for ITV about an elderly Millwall supporter.[14]

Since 2013, he has starred in Still Open All Hours. It features many original cast members (and a portrait of Ronnie Barker as Arkwright) and is still written by Roy Clarke, the original writer and creator of the show. He has also starred as Captain Skipper, a sea captain, sea dog and Pip's uncle in the animated series Pip Ahoy!.

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.[15]

Honours

In 1993, Jason was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Twelve years later, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2005, he was knighted for services to acting and comedy.[16] Upon receiving the knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 1 December 2005, he said he was "humbled" by the "fantastic tribute".[17][18]

Personal life

Jason lived with his long-term girlfriend, Welsh actress Myfanwy Talog, for 18 years and nursed her through breast cancer until she died in 1995.[19]

On 26 February 2001, Jason became a father at the age of 61 when his girlfriend, 41-year-old Gill Hinchcliffe, gave birth to a girl in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury.[20] Jason and Hinchcliffe married in 2005 and live in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire.

In 2022, Jason discovered that he had another daughter, of whom he had been previously unaware, who was born in 1970 following a brief relationship with actress Jennifer Hill.[21][22]

Jason is a patron of the Shark Trust,[23] a United Kingdom registered charity working to advance the worldwide conservation of sharks through science, education, influence and action. He has also been Honorary Vice Patron of the Royal International Air Tattoo since 1999, and on 29 May 2014, presented a cheque on behalf of the Fairford-based RAF Charitable Trust for £125,000 to the RAF Air Cadet Organisation, to fund flight simulators for Air Cadets.[24] Jason is a qualified helicopter pilot.[25]

Jason has expressed a negative opinion of the European Union, being quoted in a 2012 interview with "the Germans want to run Europe. The irony is that here we are, the world has changed, and the Germans want to run Europe. They failed to do it by war, twice. What is it? Is this the Fourth Reich?"[26]

In October 2013, he released his autobiography called David Jason: My Life.[27] It was shortlisted for the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards "Best Book of the Year".[28] A second volume, Only Fools and Stories: From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost, was published in October 2017. Penguin Books announced A Del Of A Life, which is Jason's third autobiography and was published in October 2020.[29]

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.[30]

Works

Books

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Television

Year Title Role Notes
1965 Mother Goose King Goose Television film
1966 Softly, Softly Smith Episode: "Over Take..."
Crossroads Bert Bradshaw 18 episodes
1967 Hugh and I Unknown Episode: "Chinese Crackers"
1967–1969 Do Not Adjust Your Set Various 21 episodes
1967–1979 The Dick Emery Show Unknown 2 episodes
1968 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Abel Episode: "That's How Murder Snowballs"
1969 Galton and Simpson Comedy Gordon Episode: "Don't Dilly Dally on the Way"
Counterstrike Taffy Sadler Episode: "On Ice"
Canada Goose Unknown Television film
1969–1970 Hark at Barker Various characters 11 episodes
1970 Doctor in the House Mr. Drobnic Episode: "What Seems to be the Trouble?"
Two D's and a Dog Dingle Bell 6 episodes
1971 Six Dates With Barker Clive Episode: "The Odd Job"
Doctor at Large Victor Bligh

The Toad

2 episodes
1972 His Lordship Entertains Dithers 7 episodes
1973 Seven of One Granville Episode: "Open All Hours"
1974 Doctor at Sea Manuel Sanchez Episode: "Go Away Stowaway!"
Comedy Playhouse Quentin Episode: "It's Only Me: Whoever I Am"
The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs Edgar Briggs 13 episodes
1975–1976 Lucky Feller Shorty Mopstead 14 episodes
1975–1977 Porridge Blanco 3 episodes[31]
1976–1985 Open All Hours Granville 25 episodes
1977 The Sound of Laughter Peter Barnes Episode: "A Sharp Intake of Breath"
1977–1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath Peter Barnes 22 episodes
1978 The Les Dawson Show Various Episode: #1.1
1981–2003 Only Fools and Horses Derek "Del Boy" Trotter

Don Vincenzo Occhetti

64 episodes
1982 Only Fools and Horses: "Christmas Trees" Derek "Del Boy" Trotter TV short
The Funny Side of Christmas Derek "Del Boy" Trotter

Granville

Television film
1984 Dramarama Mr. Stabs Episode: "Mr. Stabs"
1987 Porterhouse Blue Skullion 4 episodes
1988 Ariel Liquid (advertisement) Mrs B With his co-star, Nicholas Lyndhurst, as Mr H
1989 Jackanory Storyteller 4 episodes
A Bit of a Do Ted Simcock 13 episodes
1990 Single Voices The Chemist Episode: "The Chemist"
ScreenPlay George Episode: "Amongst Barbarians"
1991–1993 The Darling Buds of May Pop Larkin 20 episodes
1992–2010 A Touch of Frost DI Jack Frost 42 episodes
1993 Screen One Billy Mac Episode: "The Bullion Boys"
1997 Only Fools and Horses: "Only Fools Cutaway" Derek "Del Boy" Trotter TV short
1998 March in Windy City Steven March Television film
1999 All the King's Men Captain Frank Beck Television film
2001–2002 Micawber Wilkins Micawber 4 episodes
2002 The Quest Dave
2004 The Second Quest Dave Television film
The Final Quest Dave Television film
2005–2007 Diamond Geezer Des 4 episodes
2006 Ghostboat Jack Hardy Television film
Prehistoric Park Narrator 6 episodes
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Alberto Malich Television film
2008 Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic Rincewind 2 episodes
2009 Albert's Memorial Harry Television film
2010 Come Rain Come Shine Don Television film
David Jason: The Battle of Britain Presenter
2011 David Jason's Greatest Escapes Himself
2011–2012 The Royal Bodyguard Captain Guy Hubble 6 episodes
2013–2019 Still Open All Hours Granville 41 episodes; A revival of the original series, featuring original cast members Lynda Baron and Maggie Ollerenshaw.
2014 Only Fools and Horses: "Beckham in Peckham" Derek "Del Boy" Trotter TV short
Porridge: Inside Out Narrator
2017 The Story of Only Fools and Horses Himself Six-part documentary series about the sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
David Jason: My Life On Screen Himself Three-part documentary series where Sir David Jason embarks on a journey across Britain to explore his career in television.
David Jason's Secret Service Himself
2019 David Jason: Planes, Trains and Automobiles Himself Five-part documentary series about motor vehicles.
2020 David Jason's Great British Inventions Himself Four-part documentary series exploring his favourite British inventions.
Flying For Britain with David Jason Himself 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain documentary.
David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star Himself Channel 5 documentary; a retrospective look at David Jason's career.
2021 The Lancaster Bomber at 80 with David Jason Narrator Documentary celebrating the history of the iconic World War II bomber.[32]
Strictly Come Dancing Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (uncredited) Episode: "Christmas Special"
2022 Comedy Classics: Porridge Narrator
2023 The Apprentice Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (voice, as Sir David Jason) Episode: "Cartoons"
2024 David & Jay’s Touring Toolshed Himself / presenter With co-presenter Jay Blades[33]
Car SOS Himself Episode; Datsun 240K Skyline
2026 Open All Hours: Inside Out Himself Open All Hours 50th anniversary documentary[34]

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1972 Under Milk Wood Nogood Boyo
1973 White Cargo Albert Toddey
1975 Royal Flash The Mayor
1977 Wombling Free Womble Voice
1978 The Odd Job Odd Job Man
2010 All the Way Up Director

Animation

Year Title Role Notes
1978 The Water Babies Cyril the Walrus
1981–1992 Danger Mouse Danger Mouse
Isambard Sinclair (narrator)
Buggles Pigeon
Count Duckula
Various characters		 90 episodes
1983 The Wind in the Willows Toad/Chief Weasel Television film
1984–1990 The Wind in the Willows Toad/Chief Weasel/Billy Rabbit 48 episodes
1988–1993 Count Duckula Count Duckula
Various characters		 46 episodes
1989 The BFG The BFG
1989 A Tale of Two Toads Toad/Chief Weasel/Isambard Toad/Billy Rabbit [35]
1991–1999 Victor and Hugo: Bunglers in Crime Hugo
Interpol
Count Duckula (1 episode)
Danger Mouse (1 episode)		 30 episodes
1995 The Snow Queen Eric
1996 The Adventures of Dawdle the Donkey Rola Polar 20 episodes
1997 Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer Father Christmas Television film
1999–2000 Angelmouse All the characters 26 episodes
2005–2018 Little Einsteins Additional Characters 69 episodes
Doraemon Additional VoicesTemplate:CN 947 episodes
2010 Muddle Earth Randalf 16 episodes
2014–2020 Pip Ahoy! Skipper
Pasty		 22 episodes

Radio

Year Title Role Notes
Unknown Mostly Monkhouse Various characters
1970–1998 Week Ending Various characters
1977–1981 The Jason Explanation Various characters
1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Captain of the "B" Ark
Caveman
2008 Book at Bedtime: A Christmas Carol Narrator BBC Radio 4[36]
2016–2017 Desolation Jests BBC Radio 4

Awards and nominations

Jason 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.

Year Group Award Film/Show Result
1985 BAFTA TV Award Best Light Entertainment Performance Only Fools and Horses Template:Nom
1986 BAFTA TV Award Best Light Entertainment Performance Only Fools and Horses Template:Nom
1987 BAFTA TV Award Best Actor Porterhouse Blue Template:Won
1988 BAFTA TV Award Best Light Entertainment Performance Only Fools and Horses Template:Nom
1989 BAFTA TV Award Best Light Entertainment Performance Only Fools and Horses Template:Nom
1990 British Comedy Award Best TV Comedy Actor A Bit of a Do Template:Won
BAFTA TV Award Best Light Entertainment Performance Only Fools and Horses Template:Won
1992 British Comedy Award Best TV Comedy Actor The Darling Buds of May Template:Won
1996 National Television Award Most Popular Comedy Performer Only Fools and Horses Template:Won
National Television Award Special Recognition Award N/a Template:Won
BAFTA TV Award Best Comedy Performance Only Fools and Horses Template:Won
1997 British Comedy Award Best TV Comedy Actor Only Fools and Horses Template:Won
National Television Award Most Popular Actor Only Fools and Horses Template:Won
1999 National Television Award Most Popular Actor A Touch of Frost Template:Nom
2000 National Television Award Most Popular Actor A Touch of Frost Template:Nom
TV Quick Award Best Actor A Touch of Frost
All the King's Men 		Template:Won
2001 British Comedy Award Lifetime Achievement Award N/a Template:Won
TV Quick Award Best Actor A Touch of Frost Template:Won
National Television Award Most Popular Actor A Touch of Frost Template:Won
National Television Award Most Popular Comedy Performer Only Fools and Horses Template:Won
2002 National Television Award Most Popular Actor A Touch of Frost Template:Won
National Television Award Most Popular Comedy Performance Only Fools and Horses Template:Nom
TV Quick Award Best Actor A Touch of Frost Template:Won
2003 National Television Award Most Popular Actor A Touch of Frost Template:Nom
BAFTA TV Award BAFTA Fellowship N/a Template:Won
National Television Award Most Popular Actor The Second Quest
A Touch of Frost 		Template:Nom
2011 National Television Award Outstanding Drama Performance A Touch of Frost Template:Won

References

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