Biografie

He had no formal education.

He did not find out until age 14 that he had a twin brother who had died at birth.

He landed the part of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) by making fun of director Ray Butt's Cockney accent with a pitch perfect imitation.

He worked as a self-employed electrician before becoming an actor, initially in the theatre and later moving to television.

When Jason was cast as Detective Inspector Jack Frost, the character had to be cleaned up from the books, where Frost was a chain smoker, but Jason recently gave up smoking. He used to smoke four or five cigarettes a day, or in the evening with a drink, and didn't want to start again, and smoking was taboo on TV in 1992.

I've been fascinated by deep sea diving since watching Jacques-Yves Cousteau's TV programmes as a lad.

Marriage is like throwing yourself into a river when you only wanted a drink of water.

I've never ever 'felt my age', whatever that means. I think that there are a lot of people who feel 22 when in fact they're 62, and there are a lot of youngsters out there who behave as if they were four times their age. It's an attitude of mind, isn't it?

I've done my fair share of waiting on tables in restaurants, cleaning cars, whatever. I was even an electrician at one time, and I've done my fair bit of decorating, too. But slowly my fortunes changed.

It was a long time before TV wanted me - I would have had to commit murder to get a part on the box at one time.