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He trained as an electrician after leaving school while negotiating his way into reperatory theatre.
He started his career at the same time as Michael Palin in At Last the 1948 Show and appeared in variety shows in support of stars such as Dick Emery. He appeared, most notably, as a spoof super-hero Captain Fantastic, in Do Not Adjust Your Set, and co-starred with Denise Coffey in End of Part One . He was somewhat ahead of the Austin Powers and Johnny English film genre in an inventive TV series about an inept spy called The Secret Life of Edgar Briggs. Humphrey Barclay, who recruited David to Do Not Adjust Your Set partly to offset the rather intellectual style of Idle, Jones and Palin, admired David's masterful sense of timing. This was of course in an era when British performers such as Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Tony Hancock, Benny HillBorn Alfred Hawthorne Hill ( January 21, 1924 April 20, 1992), Benny Hill was a prolific comic British actor. He worked compulsively and had only a few friends, although colleagues who knew him closely insist that he was never lonely, but was content with and Kenneth HorneKenneth Horne ( February 27 1907 February 14 1969) was a British comedian and businessman. He starred in the BBC radio programmes Much Binding in the Marsh (with Richard Murdoch), Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne in the latter he was given a number of s were all regularly demonstrating superb timing skills to humorous effect. His eye-catching performances would also attract the attention of Ronnie BarkerRonald William George Barker OBE (b. September 25 1929), more popularly known as Ronnie Barker is a British comic actor. His best-known appearances were as Ronnie Corbett's partner in the long-running TV variety show The Two Ronnies and as Fletch in the s, who would become a mentor to Jason in the next era of his career.
Jason was recruited to play Dithers, the hundred-year old gardener to Barker and co-worker of a maid played by Josephene Tewson , in Hark At Barker , then BlancoBlanco Webb was a character in the BBC sitcom Porridge played by David Jason. Unusually for Jason, who was, at the time, in his thirties, Blanco is a very old man. Blanco is also a close friend of Fletcher. Blanco was imprisoned for murdering his wife. in PorridgePorridge is a British BBC television sitcom ( 1974 1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker. In a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms, it was voted number 6. It is set in the fictional "Slade Prison" in Cu, a prison-based comedy also starring Barker, then junior employee Granville in Open All HoursOpen All Hours was a BBC sitcom which ran for four series (26 episodes in all) between 1976 and 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series. It centres around a small grocer's shop in a town in Yorkshire. The store's owner, Arkwright, played b, starring Barker as the miserMiser is the term for a person who is reluctant to spend money, usually for the point where he or she forgoes even basic comforts. It derives from the Latin, "miser", meaning "poor" or "wretched. In fiction, a miser is a stock character: a wealthy, greedyly proprietor of a general store. He also took the lead role in ITVThis article is about the British television network. ITV (or iTV) can also mean interactive television. Independent Television (ITV is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to sitcom A Sharp Intake Of Breath .
This was followed by his most enduring and popular role, that of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses, a wide-boy who makes a dubious living in Peckham, south London, trading in shoddy and counterfeit goods with the assistance of his brother Rodney (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Grandad (played by Lennard Pearce ) or, latterly, Uncle Albert, played by Buster Merryfield. In this role David popularised some slang words; examples being the mild insults "dipstick" and "plonker" and the celebratory "lovely jubbly".
He soon earned acclaim for a string of serious roles, for example as Detective Jack Frost in the TV series A Touch Of Frost and acted with Catherine Zeta-Jones in the rural Kentish tale The Darling Buds of May (based on the H. E. Bates novel).
He has also worked as a voice artist for Cosgrove Hall on a number of children's television productions, providing voices for Dangermouse, Count Duckula and Toad from The Wind in the Willows, as well as several other cartoon voice-overs and advertising work.
Jason has never married. He nursed long-time partner Myfanwy prior to her death in 1995 after a long battle with cancer and then found happiness again with current partner Gill, with whom he has a daughter who was born in 2001.
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