Suits you Sir !
Sir David Jason leads birthday honours
list
HIS role
as the brash wheeler-dealer Del Boy Trotter in Only Fools and
Horses ensured him a special place in the nation's hearts, and
now his talents have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday
Honours, published today.David Jason, who has expressed a desire not to be remembered
solely for his Del Boy role, said he feels "surprised, delighted
and humbled" at being made a Sir.
The actor heads a host of stars from the world of showbusiness
to grace the list, including Dame Judy Dench, the award-winning
chat host Jonathan Ross and the veteran radio and television
presenter, Terry Wogan, whose Irish nationality makes him the
recipient of a special award.
Jason, 65, already an OBE, first became known playing the part
of Granville, the put-upon shop assistant in Ronnie Barker's Open
All Hours in the Seventies.
But he achieved legendary status as the dodgy geezer from
Peckham whose delusions of grandeur in the face of adversity kept
Only Fools and Horses on television for 22 years.
Another television hit series followed, in the shape of The
Darling Buds of May, with the then budding Hollywood star Catherine
Zeta-Jones, before yet another success, A Touch of Frost, in which
he plays the maverick detective Jack Frost.
Dame Judy, doyenne of the London stage who became an
Oscar-winning Hollywood star in her sixties for her role as
Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, has become a Companion of
Honour.
The award cements her place alongside Jason - the pair were
recently voted among the top-ten best-loved actors in a recent poll
- as one of the nation's favourites.
