David Jason: My Life (53 page)

Lord Foppington fully made up and in glorious costume. Note the two poodles on my head. Getting them to sit still was hellishly difficult.

With the Guvnor. Arkwright and Granville,
Open All Hours
, circa 1981.

Richard Wilson, delighted to be posing with me during
A Sharp Intake of Breath
in the late 1970s.

At a recording of
Danger Mouse
, with Brian Trueman and Jimmy Hibbert, writers and performers. I loved that mouse.

My name, placed subtly above the title. And me pointing at it, in case you hadn’t noticed.

Skiing in the Alps and wearing comedy glasses. A good comedian is never on holiday.

The cast of
A Bit of a Do
gather round its writer, 1989. Left to right: Nicola Pagett, Paul Chapman, Michael Jayston, David Nobbs, me and Gwen Taylor.

Derek Trotter Esquire. An unused still from the original title sequence of
Only Fools and Horses
.

My mate Nick Lyndhurst on the set of ‘Miami Twice’. Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees not in shot.

Rodney, Del, Grandad. Or the Three Stooges. With Nick Lyndhurst and the late, lamented Lennard Pearce.

During ‘Miami Twice’, looking grubby, just after I was chased by a crocodile.

Nick and me – a pair of silly Buddhas. On location for
Only Fools and Horses
, west London, late 1980s.

Myfanwy in her ‘Spotlight’ portrait.