Sir David Jason reveals his secret role on The Two Ronnies

Sir David is well-known for playing Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter in the hit British sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

He starred alongside Nick Lyndhurst who played Rodney Trotter, Del Boy’s brother.

The hit UK series, which follows the Trotter brothers as they try a number of questionable get-rich-quick schemes to become millionaires, ran for 22 years from 1981 to 2003.

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Sir David has also played several other starring roles throughout his career including on A Touch of Frost (as Detective Inspector Jack Frost) and Open All Hours (Granville).

Sir David Jason reveals ‘secret’ role he played on The Two Ronnies

But did you know that Sir David also had a ‘secret’ cameo on The Two Ronnies?

The hit comedy sketch show ran from 1971 to 1987 on BBC One and featured Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.

Some of the pairs more famous sketches included Fork Handles, The Sweet Shop and Mastermind.

The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was another sketch which appeared on The Two Ronnies in 1976.

The sketch showed a killer roaming the streets to Victorian London attacking and murdering victims by blowing them a raspberry.

The identity of the mystery ‘Phantom Raspberry Blower’ remained a secret for a number of years.

It was originally rumoured to be Irish comedian Spike Milligan who had written the character – who first appeared on Six Dates with Barker in 1971.

But Sir David set the record straight in his autobiography David Jason: My Life, revealing he was the Phantom Raspberry Blower.

Sir David Jason (left) set the record straight in his biography revealing he is the Phantom Raspberry Blower. (Image: PA) Sir David, via The Sun, said: “In 1976, The Two Ronnies included a weekly serial called The Phantom Raspberry Blower Of Old London Town, about an elusive figure who does for people by leaping out and blowing raspberries at them, and I was given the honour of providing the raspberries for the soundtrack.

“As Ronnie B knew, few people blow a raspberry as well as me. Indeed, I consider myself a world leader.

“But still Ronnie monitored my raspberry-blowing extremely carefully, for volume, tone and duration.”

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The Only Fools and Horses legend added: “At one point, he had me in the sound booth while he stood on the other side of the glass, and he conducted me, very earnestly, in an entirely blown-raspberry version of the 1812 Overture.

“I still have the credit board, which reads ‘Phantom Raspberry Blower — David Jason’ and I’m enormously proud of my contribution to that little moment of comic history.”

The character was so popular it even got its own stage adaptation decades later.