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Sir David John White, (born 2 February 1940), better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor. He played Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the long-running BBC comedy series ''Only Fools and Horses'', and Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama ''A Touch of Frost''. Other high-profile television roles were as Granville in the sitcom ''Open All Hours'', and Pa Larkin in the comedy drama ''The Darling Buds of May'' as well as the voices of Mr. Toad in ''The Wind in the Willows'', Danger Mouse and Count Duckula. His last original appearance as Del Boy was in 2003, while Jason retired his role as Frost in 2010. Jason was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1993, and knighted in 2005, both for services to drama. Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), (1988, 1991, 1997, 2003), four British Comedy Awards (1990, 1992, 1997, 2001) and six National Television Awards (1997, 2001, 2002 twice, 2003, 2011). These included the British Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, and the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 2003. In 2006, Jason topped the poll to find TV's 50 Greatest Stars, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. ==Early life== Jason's father, Arthur Robert White, was a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, and his Welsh-born mother, Olwen Jones, worked as a charwoman. She gave birth to twin boys in Edmonton, Middlesex in February 1940, but Jason's twin brother died during childbirth. It is an urban myth that he chose the name Jason as a tribute to his dead twin: David Jason himself has denied this. In 1984 during an interview on TV-am, David Jason admitted that the name David Jason was taken from his like of ''Jason and the Argonauts'', as the stage name David White had already been taken. 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 starred as a character called "Rerpf". He also appeared briefly with his brother in an episode of ''The Darling Buds of May''. On leaving school, Jason wanted to follow in his brother's footsteps as an actor, but their father insisted that he first get a trade. So, for six years, he trained as an electrician, before giving up his girlfriend at the time, and becoming a jobbing actor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Jason」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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