David Jason  Sir David John White (born 2 February 1940), known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, television presenter and producer. He is best known for his roles as Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the BBC comedy series sitcom "Only Fools and Horses", Detective Inspector Jack Frost in "A Touch of Frost," Granville in "Open All Hours" and "Still Open All Hours," and Pop Larkin in "The Darling Buds of May", as well as voicing Mr. Toad in "The Wind in the Willows" and the title characters of "Danger Mouse" and "Count Duckula". His most recent appearance in the role of Del Boy was in 2014; he retired his role as Frost in 2010. In September 2006, Jason topped the poll to find TV's 50 Greatest Stars, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. He was knighted in 2005 for services to drama. Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), (1988, 1991, 1997, 2003), four British Comedy Awards (1990, 1992, 1997, 2001) and seven National Television Awards (1996 twice, 1997, 2001 twice, 2002 and 2011). Jason's father, Arthur R White, was a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, and his Welsh mother, Olwen Jones, worked as a charwoman. She gave birth to twin boys at North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton, London, in February 1940, but Jason's twin brother died during childbirth, making him a twinless twin. He chose the stage name Jason because of his like of "Jason and the Argonauts", as the stage name "David White" was already taken, and not in tribute to his dead twin as has sometimes been claimed. Jason lived at Lodge Lane, North Finchley, and attended Northfield Secondary Modern school after failing the 11-plus in 1951. Upon leaving school, Jason wanted to follow in his brother's 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. Jason's 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".