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He is from UK. We have estimated David Jason's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. His first acting role was as a monkey in a primary school play at the age of 9, but his first lead role was in a Cromwellian play, Wayside War as a 17th Century Cavalier at the age of He was forced to volunteer by the headmaster and wound up enjoying it.

He then joined amateur theatre not long after and left it at the age of 25 - he joined just to pick up girls. The name of the acting troupe was "The Incognito Players", and he went on to be the most successful member; he was later asked to be a patron, which he accepted.

He lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife, Gill Hinchcliffe and their daughter, Sophie Mae, who was born in His hobbies are a little DIY and gardening. Seven days of tourism. I was a wide-eyed innocent throughout that trip. It didn't occur to me to network or mingle or put myself about or turn the trip to my commercial advantage.

For all the fantasies about a life in film, I lacked the belief. I thought it was far, above and beyond me. I suppose I wanted someone to tell me I was good. I was incapable of telling them. I was the wrong way round in LA. Jobs don't come much more profound than going into a BBC studio to spend a morning making farting noises into a microphone.

There's a motto we Dive Masters know well: 'Stop. I had that thoroughly drilled into me. I don't want to die alone. I don't even want to die in company.

I want to be alive. I've got stuff I still want to do. Reasons to live. I associate my earliest days with the smell and taste of brick dust. A rubber deep-sea diver's helmet. He could spin a story so well that you had no choice but to believe it. Richard's attitude was, if you've got it, spend it, because there's no point hanging on to it. Richard's life ended tragically early. He had barely started.

It was so shocking. We were devastated for him. It caught all of us completely off guard but it hit Ronnie Barker particularly hard. He couldn't work for a number of days because he was so upset. The industry was certainly more patient in those days than it seems to be now - but even then, patience had its limits.

The most important thing was not to think too hard about the longer term, but just to enjoy the work when it came up, and for as long as it continued to do so. The journey, not the arrival, as they say. They do say that, don't they? Ah, well. If they don't, they do now.

Filming television in front of an audience requires you to serve two masters: the audience in the studio and the audience at home. When the audience laugh, you have to find a way to ride that laugh and absorb it and then choose the right moment to continue with the show.

You mustn't crash into the audience but you mustn't look like you're waiting for them to stop laughing, either. There's a technique to interacting with the audience's laughter that you only pick up by doing it. Ronnie Barker could slip in and out of character effortlessly. Riding a bike is like You know? He collected them because they appealed to him and he liked to have them around. His place was like a house of wonders.

The walls were covered with wonderful pictures, of all shapes, sizes and styles. Ronnie's house in Oxfordshire was a treasure trove. I was happier being given the chance to channel my inner Buster Keaton.

Some actors never come out of character. Mr Nobodies with rich fantasy lives: are we beginning to detect a certain theme emerging in my professional roles? Could I do a convincingly suave and appealing phone manner? Yes, I have to say I could. Ronnie Barker wasn't playing to win. He was playing simply towards the end of getting the laugh. He knew where the laugh was - the winning shot at the end of the rally. People always say that the essence of a sitcom is people trapped by their circumstances.

In the mids, phone calls were only made possible by someone sitting at a switchboard with a fistful of plugs. A lot of luck in there. A lot of good times, with some truly great people. And some really amazing success. A busy and fulfilling life, and not bad at all for a working-class lad from North London.

Any way you could find to save money while out on tour was always welcomed. You expect people who write funny things to be loud and constantly saying things.

Often it couldn't be further from the truth. Richard Wilson had great timing and I admired him enormously and was very pleased for him with the success he went on to have.

Very successful. What a cast Brian Cosgrove had managed to assemble. Even the smell of it made the head swim. I could never have stood on a stage with him doing Shakespeare and been competitive. If the thing you most love about acting is the chance to inhabit other characters, and disappear into them, how could you not love voicing animations?

The secret, is to treat the drawing as you would treat any other character you might be asked to play. You don't think of yourself as adding a voice to a cartoon; you think of yourself as playing a character.

Table tennis has never felt the same to me since. We, meanwhile, were suspended at 35,ft, in our unworldly little bubble, sipping cocktails, chinking glasses and saying chin-chin. I loved traveling and seeing new places, and I was also of the firm opinion that the opportunity to travel and see new places at someone else's expense and while being paid should never be batted away lightly. Wages in the bin, living like a king - what could be better? The most impolite thing you can do is point your foot at somebody's head.

It's the worst kind of insult. The shop had become the full extent of his world and he didn't have time for anything beyond it. In Dubai, the Sheikhs seemed to be going in for competitive airport building - fantastically constructed, you wouldn't want your airport to be smaller than anyone else's, would you?

It gave him 16 relaxed and contented years before his terribly sad death in It had characters, it had some zinging lines, it had warmth - it seemed to have all the necessary ingredients. Actors don't really retire: there isn't usually a formal moment. You don't give up the business, the business tends to give you up.

I miss that building and was sad to see the BBC leave it, although of course, life teaches us that nothing is permanent. Apart, obviously, from Noel Edmonds' hair. The more I thought about Del Boy , and the more I thought about the script I had seen, the more I felt there was something potentially wonderful there for me.

It would feel wrong. The smell in the place was a heady mix of damp carpet, petrol fumes and the aroma of 10, previously smoked woodbine cigarettes. An underfunded housing project. The drivers of these motor-homes couldn't do anything because they were unionized and would have got into trouble if they did any work.

Driving them was a job I could never have done. I would have been banging my head against the windscreen in frustration after about 40 minutes. All the component parts just fitted. The whole thing was sounding like it had been written for us. When we reached the end of our read, silence fell on the room. But he was a winner by mentality. You were presenting a new play every week to an audience. There was so much to go wrong. There will be retakes and cameras have to be moved, and sets altered, so the pressure of time was always hanging over you.

It took two hours to film an episode. If I could sense that the audience wasn't responding, I would do something stupid or dry on purpose, and then share it with the audience. Then the audience would relax. They knew they could laugh and not get into trouble, and by the same token they knew we weren't taking it too seriously. And then they'd be off. And once they were off, there was generally no holding them. You are trying to inhabit the character's body, not let the character inhabit your body.

I hate shopping for clothes for myself and would rather shut my fingers in a kitchen drawer than stand in a store on Oxford Street holding up shirts against myself and saying "what do you think?

I utterly loved it. It was a total escape. Nick Lyndhurst and I recognized in each other a kindred urge to mess about, whenever possible. I felt very, very excited indeed. I think this is a comedy-drama.

Only Fools and Horses got off to a ragged and inauspicious start. Ken MacDonald loved the show Only Fools and Horses and the people in it and could become quite emotional about his attachment to everyone. His character wasn't especially big, but he was utterly committed to it because he just thought it was one of the funniest shows ever and he wanted to be a part of it.

I think we all felt the same. His performance as the fabulously dim Trigger from Only Fools and Horses was so good that one tended to come to the conclusion that Roger Lloyd Pack must be genuinely like that as a person. He wasn't at all. He was quiet, unassuming, totally easy-going - and a consummate actor.

John Challis, one of his co-stars on Only Fools and Horses was charming, well spoken, an actor of great weight, and an absolute gent to work with - another proper team player.

We all knew there was a massive potential here, but early in a sitcom's life you never really know what they're thinking upstairs, in the big rooms where the decisions are made. Only Fools and Horses could have been canceled there and then, and we would have been gutted, but not entirely surprised. Those are the kind of statistics which make television executives start to get twitchy with the trigger finger.

We all had to think, 'well, it's been fun, but that's probably it'. I liked the country life. As much as I loved London, I found the quiet and isolation of the countryside had started appealing to me really strongly.

The traditional paranoid actor's frame of mind: 'will I ever work again? Indeed, traditionally this was the point in any relationship at which I had always run a mile, causing no little distress along the way.

But now I didn't run away. I felt ready. Order du jour! Only Fools had been granted the time to grow. If you can make the audience think you don't care, the audience relax and they like you and they feel part of it. Life was a bit topsy-turvy but no less enjoyable for that. I was very busy and very content. The pressure on you in front of an audience and cameras is very high and if you've never done it before it can really get to you. The funeral scene was dark and sad, but shot through with bright shafts of humor, like "Always in our Foughts", or dropping the vicar's hat into Grandad's grave.

When I read that, I collapsed. It was just so What a bleak day that was. The weather matched our moods and it fed into the scene: the drama of the dark glasses at the graveside. It was was all very hard to do, with Lennard's memory so fresh.

I was very emotional. It was an episode written by John out of respect for Lennard. So I wanted to get it right for Lennard, and at the same time, I wanted to get it right for John. He just wouldn't let television dismiss Lennard's passing, in the way that television might have done, if television had been left to it's own frequently fickle devices. It was a wonderful thing - and something that nobody had done in situation comedy.

We could have no idea of the scale of the setback the show was about to endure. Those of us on the show had grown to think of him as family too, though. We mourned his loss as you would mourn the loss of a family member.

He always lusted after turning professional and again, like me he had picked up a couple of bits and pieces by responding to ads. He didn't have an agent, or anything sophisticated like that.

He just had his enthusiasm. We were stoic enough about it, though. And also, thoroughly refreshed. The arrival of Buster led John Sullivan into a new rich vein. He wasn't actually wearing a sailor's cap, but when you looked at him, you felt he ought to be. Buster Merryfield must be just about the only person who wrote away for a role in an established television sitcom Only Fools and Horses and got it.

Lennard would just say, 'I'm old - I'm allowed. He had that amazing look about him - an eccentric face, the face of someone whom you immediately wanted to like. I could never work out why he didn't take me with him. Purely recreationally of course.

I loved doing them - the patter, the banter, the rhythm. It stands to reason that you can't go on television over and over again and not get recognized every now and again.

Minder was a show I loved to watch, so the rivalry didn't feel particularly hostile to me, but I guess it was a good story for the papers. There was a Second World war on. There was a lot of death about. I was to get most of my growing done by about the age of fourteen when I reached five foot six and my body decided that it had had enough of lengthening and left it at that.

You want to be watching television on Christmas Day, not appearing live on it. Play it right, and you could virtually guarantee a round of applause, no matter what had happened in your exit speech.

I loved being part of huge set pieces. It enabled me to give some rein to my film-actor fantasies. It was certainly very different from the slightly grab-it-and-run Only Fools and Horses shoots. But we're talking about John Sullivan.

And you must agree: we keep cutting gold. And do you know what? I'm perfectly happy with that. It wasn't just that there was now time to get more of John Sullivan's great lines in; there was now more space in which things could unfold. My knees were shaking - but, even so, they felt like the bee's knees. I felt like I had arrived - like I was finally someone who counted.

It was nice to be a winner. I had always been very insecure about my abilities as an actor, but that night, sitting among my peers, I allowed myself to feel very proud of what I'd done. It's a wonder I made it through this period at all. I certainly didn't. Black-tie showbusiness occasions don't make me very comfortable. It was a bit like going willingly to your own execution.

If they did it on film, I knew the series would at least look good and have some quality about it, even if nothing happened. The characters I tended to be known for playing - Del Boy merely the most prominent among them - had their foibles but were meant to be essentially forgivable and lovable. They were great seekers of the audience's sympathy. It was enormously successful. As occupied as I was, there was always the drive within me - the basic actorly thing.

Be someone different. Be someone else. And take the work while it's there to be taken. A Bit of a Do ran to two series, went down well with critics and viewers, and put me on Yorkshire Television's radar - to the extent that, in the event of a part coming up in I don't know Normally, in the real world, your eyes range a bit around the face of the person you're talking to, but in a closeup of someone's face, that natural eye movement gets exaggerated and can look a bit odd, as if your eyes are shooting around in their sockets.

This saw the trio of actors reunite after they first appeared in the show back in on Radio 4. Sir David was seen posing for pictures with fans as he made his way into the theatre for the performance. However, the Only Fools and Horses star will not be appearing in a new role until Banking on Mr Toad is released in This includes the first episode airing tomorrow at 8.

David Jason reveals bosses were against casting him as Del Boy. The actor was recently snapped looking frail as he arrived at a theatre. Only Fools and Horses was a sitcom based in Peckham while ran from to - with specials in , and It followed the lives of a wheeler dealer family - The Trotters - with Del Boy Sir David having delusions of grandeur as he tried to become a millionaire.

They lived in a council flat and would frequently try dodgy dealings in their quest to make it to the big time.