("Del Boy")The cushty role made a star out of Jason and he has gone on to become one of Britain’s best-loved actors. Since then he’s probably best known as Detective Inspector Jack Frost in police drama A Touch Of Frost, which aired from 1992 to 2010.
Pre-Only Fools, he played Granville in Open All hours with Ronnie Barker – he reprised this in a 2013 sequel Still Open All hours which is still running today.
Jason, now 81, lived with his long-term girlfriend, Welsh actress Myfanwy Talog, for 18 years and nursed her through breast cancer until she died in 1995.In 2001, the award-winning actor became a dad for the first time aged 61 when his wife Gill Hinchcliffe gave birth to their daughter Sophie Mae.
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