Sir David John White OBE is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, television presenter and producer. He is best known for his roles as Derek in Only Fools and Horses and Detective Inspector Jack Frost in A Touch of Frost. He also voiced Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows and the title characters of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.
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Sir David John White OBE is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, television presenter and producer. He is best known for his roles as Derek in Only Fools and Horses and Detective Inspector Jack Frost in A Touch of Frost. He also voiced Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows and the title characters of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula. In September 2006, Jason topped the poll to find TV’s 50 Greatest Stars, as part of ITV’s 50th anniversary celebrations. He was knighted in 2005 for services to acting and comedy. Jason’s father, Arthur Robert White, was a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market. His Welsh mother, Olwen Jones, was from Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales and worked as a charwoman. Jason wanted to follow in his brother’s footsteps as an actor, but their father insisted that he first get a trade. He trained as an electrician, before giving up his girlfriend at the time, and becoming a jobbing actor. 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 with Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Denise Coffey, and Michael Palin.
In the early 1970s, he appeared in Mostly Monkhouse. Jason appeared on stage in London in the farce No Sex Please, We’re British playing Brian Runnicles for 18 months in 1973. Jason was recruited to appear in Hark at Lord Barker, starring opposite Ronnie Barker’s Rustless, as Dithers, the 100-year old gardener. Jason also appeared in three episodes of The Two Ronnies, providing the sound effect for Ronnier Blanco in the comedy anthology Seven of One called Open All Hours. He has won four British Academy Television Awards, four British Comedy Awards and seven National Television Awards. His most recent appearance in the role of Del Boy was in 2014; he retired his role as Frost in 2010. He chose the stage name Jason because of his like of Jason and the Argonauts. The stage name was already taken, and not in tribute to his dead twin as has sometimes been claimed. He appeared in Randall and Hopkirk as Abel, a framed performer in a major London theatre. He featured in Porridge Porridge, a prison comedy, as an elderly prison inmate.
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