David Jason

Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor and comedian. He played Derek Del Boy Trotter in the longrunning BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses, and Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost.

Jasons 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 brothers 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.

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