![]() Hill starred in the James Bond film Octopussy and alongside Sir David in a stage production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood at the Mayfair Theatre in London. Sir David was left shocked to find he was the father to 52-year-old Abi Harris and grandfather to her 10-year-old son Charlie after having a brief fling with her mother Jennifer Hill in 1970. The couple now live in Buckinghamshire.īut in March this year, his life had a remarkable twist when he found out that he actually had another daughter who was 30 years older than Sophie. Gill gave birth to the couple's daughter, Sophie Mae, in February 2001 when the actor was 61. He found happiness again with Gill Hinchcliffe, 20 years his junior, whom he married in 2005. In 1995, Sir David was left grief-stricken after his girlfriend of 18 years, Welsh actress Myfanwy Talog, died of breast cancer. In recent years, a plethora of documentaries including David Jason's Great British Inventions and David Jason: Planes, Trains & Automobiles have kept the star on screen and a bank balance so healthy, it would turn his alter-ego Del Boy's eyes green. He also published a Christmas book called The Twelve Dels of Christmas last year. His third autobiography, A Del Of A Life, was published in October 2020. He released an autobiography in 2013 entitled David Jason: My Life, and followed it up with a second volume, Only Fools and Stories: From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost in October 2017. In 1993 he was awarded an OBE, and 12 years later, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2005, Sir David was knighted for services to acting and comedy. Sir David also famously starred as Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds of May in 1991, the show that launched the career of Catherine Zeta Jones.īut arguably his biggest role after Del Boy came playing Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the crime drama A Touch of Frost from the 1992 until 2010. By November last year, the energetic octogenarian had wrapped up a sixth series. He reprised his role of shopkeeper Granville in the sequel, Still Open All Hours, in 2014, and appeared again in the third series in 2017. Sir David was subsequently recruited to play Granville alongside Ronnie in the sitcom Open All Hours, and jailbird Bianco Webb in Porridge in 1973. He spent 18 months in the West End in 1973, in the farce No Sex Please, We're British, and appeared as the support act for Dick Emery in a number of variety shows, where he caught the eye of Ronnie Barker. Sir David joked he was 'cast at 12 o'clock and saved by three.' He also missed out on the starring role of Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em in 1973 because BBC honchos thought he lacked 'star quality'. ![]() His career very nearly didn't take off when he missed out on the part of Lance Corporal Jines in Dad's Army after initially being cast by David Croft, he was swiftly replaced by Clive Dunn after BBC exec Bill Cotton overruled Croft. Here, MailOnline looks at what the hit comedy's cast did before and after the show:īorn in Edmonton, London, Sir David started out in 1964, playing the part of Bert Bradshaw in Crossroads, before going on to play spoof super-hero Captain Fantastic, among other roles, in the children's comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set, alongside Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Denise Coffey and Michael Palin. Yesterday, Mickey Pearce actor Patrick Murray sadly revealed that his cancer had returned and spread, just three months after claiming 'liver surgery saved his life'.Īlso yesterday, it was revealed actress-turned-novelist Kate Saunders, who played a policewoman called Sandra who was a love interest of Rodney, had died aged 62. The show's writer John Sullivan died in 2011, but Only Fools has since found further success as a West End musical which launched in 2019. Many of the programme's stars are now no longer with us, including Lennard Peace who was in the show from 1981 up until his death in 1984, at the age of 69.īuster Merryfield, who was Uncle Albert, died aged 78 in 1999, while Trigger actor Roger Lloyd-Pack died at 69 in 2014 and Boycie star John Challis died at 79 in 2021. No new episodes of Only Fools have appeared on British TV screens for two decades, with the last one being a special shown on Christmas Day 2003. When Del Boy finally struck it rich after auctioning an antique watch during the 1996 Christmas special 'Time on our Hands', more than 24million people watched. The show, famous for catchphrases such as 'cushty', 'lovely jubbly' and 'plonker', starred aspiring entrepreneur Del Boy (Sir David Jason) and his younger brother Rodney ( Nicholas Lyndhurst) who lived in a flat in Peckham, South East London. It might have first appeared on TV screens four decades ago, but the BBC's Only Fools and Horses remains hugely popular among audiences both young and old.
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