Sir David John White, OBE, known by his stage name David Jason (born 2 February 1940 in Edmonton, London) is an English actor. He first found fame on the popular sitcom Open All Hours as Granville, Ronnie Barker's corner shop delivery boy. He later starred in Only Fools and Horses, where he played cockney chancer Derek Trotter, before moving into more serious territory as the gruff Inspector Jack Frost, on the long-running crime drama A Touch of ...
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Sir David John White, OBE, known by his stage name David Jason (born 2 February 1940 in Edmonton, London) is an English actor. He first found fame on the popular sitcom Open All Hours as Granville, Ronnie Barker's corner shop delivery boy. He later starred in Only Fools and Horses, where he played cockney chancer Derek Trotter, before moving into more serious territory as the gruff Inspector Jack Frost, on the long-running crime drama A Touch of Frost.
His elder brother, Arthur White, is also an actor.
Brought up in Lodge Lane, North Finchley, he went to Northside primary school on the same road as where he lived. After leaving school he trained as an electrician while negotiating his way into repertory theatre. On discovering there was already a David White on Equity's books, he took the stage name Jason from his favourite film at the time Jason and the Argonauts (1963). It has long been suggested that he took the name Jason from his younger twin brother who was still born, but David...
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