Arise Sir Del Boy !

[David Brent]

Hearty Congratulations to one of Britain's greatest and much loved actors David Jason on news of his well deserved knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

From "Open All Hours" to "Darling Bud's Of May" and from "Only Fool's and Horses" to "A Touch of Frost" David has been a great servant to the British acting profession.

Seems a really nice guy in real life too ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]



Dave.

[samkydd]

Originally posted by David Brent@Jun 11 2005, 07:00 AM

Hearty Congratulations to one of Britain's greatest and much loved actors David Jason on news of his well deserved knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

From "Open All Hours" to "Darling Bud's Of May" and from "Only Fool's and Horses" to "A Touch of Frost" David has been a great servant to the British acting profession.

Seems a really nice guy in real life too ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]



Dave.

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I wholeheartedly agree. My favourite David Jason role is Jack Frost, one of the best TV detective characters ever!

[smudge]

Perhaps it's time now for a full retrospective and he might reconsider, and give permissions for THE SECRET LIFE OF EDGAR BRIGGS and A SHARP INTAKE OF BREATH to be released, so we can see if they are as we remember them ?



SMUDGE



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[Hackett]

Good luck to him. But why him and not say anyone else?. I don't know about you others out there but when I first read any honours list I always get an automatic gut reaction that says yes that feels right or no can't see it. I got a yes for Terry Wogan but a no for dear old David. Anybody feel the same?.

[A Pemberton]

Congratulations also to Michael Medwin OBE not only the stock cockney in many a Brit film(why do many british films have an obligatory cockney ?)but a producer of such good films as Lindsay Andersons "If"

[DB7]

Jonathan Ross OBE? For presenting a few lightweight shows. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img]

[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by HACKETT@Jun 11 2005, 01:59 PM

Good luck to him. But why him and not say anyone else?. I don't know about you others out there but when I first read any honours list I always get an automatic gut reaction that says yes that feels right or no can't see it. I got a yes for Terry Wogan but a no for dear old David. Anybody feel the same?.

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If you don't think David Jason deserves it, just look at the body of his work. Not just Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses . "Blanco" in Porridge, Open All Hours, "Nogood Boyo" in Under Milk Wood, Danger Mouse, Porterhouse Blue, The Darling Buds of May, A Touch of Frost and many others.



What's Terry Wogan done? A bit on the radio and a few Eurovisions.



Steve

[Clinton Morgan]

Originally posted by Steve Crook@Jun 11 2005, 07:29 PM

"Nogood Boyo" in Under Milk Wood

It's about time that casting agents start putting David Jason into movies as they should have done with John Thaw. What a wasted opportunity, he could have been up there with Michael Caine and that Irish actor who appeared in 'The Cassandra Crossing' and for some reason (despite being a household name) I cannot remember his name as I type this. Instead he ended up being King of the ITV 9pm hour-long dramas before the news. That is not to say television drama is inferior to cinema. I believe that John Thaw had the right persona for the cinema screen as does David Jason.



Incidentally Steve, you forgot to mention 'Do Not Adjust Your Set'.

[Marky B]

What's Terry Wogan done? A bit on the radio and a few Eurovisions.



Steve



To be fair about Terry Wogan,he has been in broadcasting on national radio since 1967 - 38 years ago - and has presented numerous tv programmes,voiced over many commercials,and has ultimately become the most popular DJ in Britain,extending perhaps to the rest of the world through satelite etc. Terry Wogan,IMHO,has a brilliant early morning radio show,which is never patronising to its listeners and succeeds in making every listener a member of his "zoo". He plays music which stretches and suits every tastes,and also he has promoted new bands or talent in parallel with reminding us on the unsung talent of yesteryear.

He has also presented BBC Children In Need since the early 1980's,a charity I've always trusted that every penny sent,is every penny spent on the cause intent,and each year gets better in money raised and also good entertainment provided thus.

I am a big fan of (Sir) Terry Wogan,indeed I am a big fan of Radio 2,so leave him alone and let him relish in his new found glory,of which he richly deserves,and here is in hope for the future of Sir Jonathan Ross (an entertaining broadcaster [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img] ),Sir Johnny Walker [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,Sir Steve Wright [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,Stuart Maconie MBE [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,Lord Brian Matthew of Abbey Road [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,King Ken the Bruce [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] and First Lady Sally Traffic [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] .

[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by Marky B@Jun 12 2005, 03:15 AM

To be fair about Terry Wogan,he has been in broadcasting on national radio since 1967 - 38 years ago - and has presented numerous tv programmes,voiced over many commercials,and has ultimately become the most popular DJ in Britain,extending perhaps to the rest of the world through satelite etc. Terry Wogan,IMHO,has a brilliant early morning radio show,which is never patronising to its listeners and succeeds in making every listener a member of his "zoo". He plays music which stretches and suits every tastes,and also he has promoted new bands or talent in parallel with reminding us on the unsung talent of yesteryear.

He has also presented BBC Children In Need since the early 1980's,a charity I've always trusted that every penny sent,is every penny spent on the cause intent,and each year gets better in money raised and also good entertainment provided thus.

I am a big fan of (Sir) Terry Wogan,indeed I am a big fan of Radio 2,so leave him alone and let him relish in his new found glory,of which he richly deserves,and here is in hope for the future of Sir Jonathan Ross (an entertaining broadcaster [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img] ),Sir Johnny Walker [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,Sir Steve Wright [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,Stuart Maconie MBE [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,Lord Brian Matthew of Abbey Road [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] ,King Ken the Bruce [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] and First Lady Sally Traffic [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] .

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Oh yes, I'd forgotten about Children in Need. All right, I'll let him off.



I've never heard his radio show though (nor that of Johnathan Ross). All the radios in my house only work on Radio 4.



Steve

[Marky B]

Originally posted by Steve Crook@Jun 12 2005, 03:21 AM

I've never heard his radio show though (nor that of Johnathan Ross). All the radios in my house only work on Radio 4.



Steve

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You might have heard me on Radio 4 a few years ago on Screen Test,introduced by Brian Dibley. I won the Newcastle heat,then going to the semi-finals in Manchester. I came second. My specialist subjects were the James Bond films and Steven Spielberg films.

Ta Ta

Marky B [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[smudge]

I went for that and the researcher didn't want to know because I didn't watch the trendy films of the time...



No disrespect Marky, those are quality subjects, but not the 'highbrow' (?) subjects she gave the impression they were looking for.



Good on you, BTW - a decent showing ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]



SMUDGE



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[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by Marky B@Jun 12 2005, 01:08 PM

You might have heard me on Radio 4 a few years ago on Screen Test,introduced by Brian Dibley. I won the Newcastle heat,then going to the semi-finals in Manchester. I came second. My specialist subjects were the James Bond films and Steven Spielberg films.

Ta Ta

Marky B [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

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That was a good quiz show with quite high standards so well done.

The one that really impresses me though is the music quiz Counterpoint. The range of musical styles the contestants know about is very impressive.



Steve

[Allen Dace]

Originally posted by Steve Crook@Jun 12 2005, 02:21 AM

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about Children in Need. All right, I'll let him off.



I've never heard his radio show though (nor that of Johnathan Ross). All the radios in my house only work on Radio 4.



Steve

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I'd say they do their best work on the Radio. Maybe the problem you had was no so much that they have been too well rewarded but that some very deserving folks haven't? Will we ever get Sir Ronald Neame (currently CBE)? Or how about Britain's biggest ever oscar winner and top cinema composer Sir John Barry (currently OBE)? Dame Deborah Kerr (still a CBE)?

[Marky B]

Originally posted by Steve Crook@Jun 12 2005, 03:39 PM

That was a good quiz show with quite high standards so well done.

The one that really impresses me though is the music quiz Counterpoint. The range of musical styles the contestants know about is very impressive.



Steve

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Why thank you,sir [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/notworthy.gif[/img]

Ta Ta

Marky B [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[Wetherby Pond]

Originally posted by DB7@Jun 11 2005, 06:43 PM

Jonathan Ross OBE? For presenting a few lightweight shows. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img]

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I suspect Ross's honour has rather more to do with the amount of money and jobs he's generated for the television industry over the last eighteen years, not only for the shows he's fronted but also the rather greater number that were produced for his Channel X production company (including virtually everything involving Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer).



Much like Hammer's legendary Queen's Award for Industry, such honours usually have far more to do with commerce than art.

[Marky B]

Originally posted by smudge@Jun 12 2005, 03:32 PM

I went for that and the researcher didn't want to know because I didn't watch the trendy films of the time...



No disrespect Marky, those are quality subjects, but not the 'highbrow' (?) subjects she gave the impression they were looking for.



Good on you, BTW - a decent showing ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]



SMUDGE



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It was the producer who interviewed me over the phone,and she gave me the chance straight away to appear. When I met her in Newcastle,she was a very nice young woman.

Ta Ta

Marky B [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[smudge]

Originally posted by Marky B@Jun 15 2005, 04:13 PM

It was the producer who interviewed me over the phone,and she gave me the chance straight away to appear. When I met her in Newcastle,she was a very nice young woman.

Ta Ta

Marky B [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

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Ah well Marky -



To quote the famous Fu Manchu line,



"The world shall hear from me again..."



(I think...if a certain publication ever comes to light... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img] )



SMUDGE



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[Marky B]

Originally posted by Allen Dace@Jun 12 2005, 06:51 PM

I'd say they do their best work on the Radio. Maybe the problem you had was no so much that they have been too well rewarded but that some very deserving folks haven't? Will we ever get Sir Ronald Neame (currently CBE)? Or how about Britain's biggest ever oscar winner and top cinema composer Sir John Barry (currently OBE)? Dame Deborah Kerr (still a CBE)?

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I have been on about John Barry getting a knighthood for a while,and I can't understand why the other two have not been daubed.

Ta Ta

Marky B [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[Wetherby Pond]

I thought it might be worth linking to this piece, which helpfully lists numerous famous people who've refused honours over the years.



Names relevant to British film and TV include:



Alan Bennett

Honor Blackman

David Bowie

Kenneth Branagh

John Cleese

Dawn French

Trevor Howard

Helen Mirren (refused CBE from Tories, accepted Damehood from Labour)

Vanessa Redgrave (accepted CBE, refused Damehood)

Jennifer Saunders

Alastair Sim (accepted CBE, refused knighthood)



As for Deborah Kerr, the fact that she spent so much of her career in America may well have counted against her - Alfred Hitchcock and P.G.Wodehouse weren't knighted until the year of their deaths (though admittedly Wodehouse's knighthood was delayed for other reasons). As I suggested above, honours are usually linked to generation of some kind of income for British institutions as opposed to fame per se.