David Jason: My Life (51 page)

Aged 18, outside the builders’ yard opposite our house, trying to look like a film star.

Micky and me modelling cheap waterproofs and enjoying a brief gap in the rain en route to Cornwall, late 1950s.

Val Doonican goosing my mother and my Aunty Ede. Val was a good friend of my brother Arthur and this was taken at Arthur’s house.

Arthur and I audition for the Mafia at somebody or other’s wedding, circa 1962.

With Bob Bevil on holiday in Jersey. London boys, ladykillers, electricians.

Me and Micky Weedon in Tony Brighton’s backyard playing horseshoes because we thought it made us look like cowboys.

Early thesping in
The Glass Menagerie
with the Incognito Theatre Group at Friern Barnet at the beginning of the sixties.

With Brian Babb and Vera Neck in an Incognito production of
Epitaph for George Dillon
. Already working the sofa for business.

Early 1960s. Having a lovely war in
Journey’s End
. The Incogs took up more and more of my evenings.

Weedon and White roll up their shirtsleeves and get down to some serious acting. Rehearsal for the Incogs’
Noah
.

Me on the phone to my agent during
The Teahouse of the August Moon
in the mid-sixties.

The Teahouse of the August Moon
again. I was on loan to the St Bride’s Players of Fleet Street.

Best man at Malcolm Taylor’s wedding. This was the only time in the whole day that I took off the top hat.