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.
Can anyone advise please I’ve bean a fan all my life I have a picture I would like him to Sighn does anyone no how ?
I think David Jason is fantastic. Hes not only a good comdian hes also a superb actor too. Open All Hours was excellent. Fools and Horses first class. Not much a fan of Frost but there gose.
dear Mr Jason I have one word for you. legend
I think david jason is one of the finest actors ever to appear on our screens. if i could meet anyone dead or alive it wouldn’t be the pope, it wouldn’t be the queen, it wouldn’t be michael jackson, it would be Mr Jason. i think he’s great and if i ever have the chance to meet him i could die a happy happy man!!
Good stuff he is a legend always will be !!!
I just wonder whether we will ever see him appear again in Only Fools?
i hope so. I dont think it could ever meet expectations without david making an appearance
Very cool, glad to hear.