David Jason has reached the end of 1996 with two more awards to add to his
collection. He was honoured with a Special Recognition Award at the National
Television Awards and received the Favourite Situation Comedy Performer Award
at the BBC's Auntie's All Time Greats Award Ceremony. 
His repertoire of screen characters ranges from shop assistant, Granville in Roy Clarke's Open All Hours to the porter, Skullion, in the television adaptation of Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue, from the adulterous Ted Simcock in A Bit Of A Do to the expansive Pop arkin n The Darling Buds Of May and from the flamboyant Del Boy Trotter in John Sullivan's Only Fools And Horses to the gritty Inspector Jack Frost in A Touch of Frost.
David began his stage career in repertory, going on to play Edward in Darling
Mr London, Fancourt Babberley in Charley's Aunt, Norman in The Norman Conquests,
Lord Foppington in The Relapse, Buttons in Cinderella and Tom Bryce in The Unvarnished
Truth. His West End appearances include Look No Hans!; the role of No-Good-Boyo
in Under Milk Wood at the Mayfair; Bob Acres in The Rivals at Sadler's Wells;
and he took over the leading role from Michael Crawford in No Sex Please...We're
British! at the Strand. 
His numerous television credits encompass Do Not Adjust Your Set; several series with Ronnie Barker including Roy Clarke's Open All Hours and Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' Porridge for BBC-1; The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs and Lucky Feller for LWT; A Sharp Intake Of Breath for ATV; Mr Stabbs for Thames; Malcolm Bradbury's adaptation of Porterhouse Blue for Channel 4; David Nobbs' A Bit Of A Do, the adaptation of H E Bates' The Darling Buds Of May and the detective drama series A Touch Of Frost for YTV; Jackanory, Single Voices: The Chemist - a Roy Clarke monologue; Amongst Barbarians, The Bullion Boys (which won the 1994 Best Drama International Emmy Award) and John Sullivan's award-winning comedy series Only Fools And Horses for BBC-Television.
He has appeared in the films Under Milk Wood, Royal Flash, The Odd Job and Wind In The Willows, and he is the voice behind the successful television cartoon characters Dangermouse, Count Duckula and Toad in The Wind In The Willows.
In addition to this year's awards, he has also won the 1984 BBC Personality Of The Year Award from the Variety Club of Great Britain, the 1985 TV Times Award for TV's Funniest Man, 1988 Best Actor Award from BAFTA, the 1990 Best Light Entertainment Performance Award from BAFTA, the BBC TV Personality Award from TRIC and the Best Male Performance in the 1992 RTS Awards.
Nicholas Lyndhurst is soon to begin work on the fourth series of the hit BBC-1
comedy Goodnight Sweetheart in which he stars as the time travelling Gary Sparrow
with a wife in the 1990s and a girlfriend in the 1940s. 
He has practically done all his growing up on BBC Television. As a child actor he played Davy in Anne of Avonlea, Peter in Heidi, the dual roles of Tom Canty and Prince Edward in The Prince And The Pauper and Tootles in Peter Pan. He progressed to become Raymond, screen son of Ronnie Barker's Fletch in Going Straight, Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais' sequel to Porridge and Adam, Wendy Craig's son in Carla Lane's Butterflies. Then came the role for which he is probably best known to television viewers - that of Rodney opposite David Jason's Del Trotter in John Sullivan's award-winning comedy Only Fools And Horse's which has to date clocked up seven series and ten Christmas Specials.
He has starred in four series of LWT's The Two Of Us and in three series of The Piglet Files for the same company. His other television credits include the roles of Philip in Father's Day; Tim in Play Of The Month: Fairies; Philip in Losing Her, Dobson in the BBC serial To Serve Them All My Days; Private Wilson in Spearhead; Stalagluft for Yorkshire Television, and most recently Gulliver's Travels with Ted Danson. He was co-presenter of Our Show and has made guest appearances on The Dick Emery Show, The Burt Bacharach Show, The Kenny Everett Christmas Show and The Lenny Henry Show.
His films include Endless Night, Bequest To The Nation, Bullshot and Gunbus.
He made his West End theatre debut starring in The Foreigner at the
Albery Theatre and more recently starred in Straight And Narrow at the
Aldwych. Other theatre work encompasses Harding's Luck at Greenwich; Trial
Run at the Oxford Playhouse; and a tour of the Peter Shaffer double bill
Black Comedy and The Private Ear. He appeared in the 1986 Royal Variety
Performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.