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Jason (surname)
Jason is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anju Jason (born 1987), first Marshalese sportsperson to qualify for the Olympics (2008) * David Jason (born 1940), British actor * Leigh Jason (1904–1979), American film director and writer * Peter Jason (born 1944), American actor * Rick Jason (1923–2000), American actor See also * Jason (given name) * Jason (other) Jason is a hero of Greek mythology who led the Argonauts and married Medea. Jason or JASON may also refer to: Names *Jason (given name) * Jason (surname) Entertainment * Jason Voorhees, the primary antagonist of the ''Friday the 13th'' franchi ... {{surname, Jason English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anju Jason
Anju Jason (born November 21, 1987) became the first Marshallese sportsperson in history to qualify for the Olympics in 2008. He competes in taekwondo. He took 27th place and received no official recognition. Jason, who was born in the Marshall Islands, moved to Hawaii at the age of six. He now lives in Yakima, Washington Yakima ( or ) is a city in and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, and the state's 11th-largest city by population. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. The unin .... ReferencesNews article on Anju Jason's qualification for the Olympic Games [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jason
Sir David John White (born 2 February 1940), known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the BBC sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses'', Detective Inspector Jack Frost in ''A Touch of Frost,'' Granville in '' Open All Hours'' and '' Still Open All Hours,'' and Pop Larkin in '' The Darling Buds of May'', as well as voicing Mr. Toad in '' The Wind in the Willows'', the BFG in the 1989 film and the title characters of ''Danger Mouse'' and '' Count Duckula''. His most recent appearance in the role of Del Boy was in 2014; he retired his role as Frost in 2010. He voices Captain Skipper, the uncle of Pip in the preschool focused series ''Pip Ahoy!'' In September 2006, Jason topped the poll to find TV's 50 Greatest Stars, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. He was knighted in 2005 for services to acting and comedy. Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Jason
Leigh Jason (July 26, 1904 – February 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He was born in New York, New York, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. He married Ruth Harriet Louise in 1927 at Temple B'nai B'rith, with William Wyler as his best man. Louise was the first woman photographer active in Hollywood, and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. They had a son, Leigh Jr., who died of leukemia when he was six years old, and Louise died in 1940, along with their second son, in complications from childbirth. Filmography * '' The Price of Fear'' (1928) * '' Wolves of the City'' (1929) * '' Eyes of the Underworld'' (1929) * '' The Tip Off'' (1929) * '' The Body Punch'' (1929) * '' Humanettes'' (1930) * '' High Gear'' (1933) * '' A Preferred List'' (1933) * '' Bubbling Over'' (1934) * '' The Knife of the Party'' (1934) * '' Apples to You!'' (1934) * '' Roamin' Vandals'' (1934) * '' Nifty Nurses'' (1934) * '' How to Break 90 at C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jason
Peter Edward Ostling (born July 22, 1944), also known as Peter Jason, is an American character actor. He has appeared in over eighty films and a hundred television series. He played Con Stapleton in the series ''Deadwood''. He was a frequent collaborator with Walter Hill and John Carpenter on their films, eight and six times respectively. He voiced Sergeant Dornan in the video game ''Fallout 2''. He starred in supporting roles for the films ''48 Hrs.'' and ''Arachnophobia''. Personal life Born in Hollywood, Jason grew up in Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach. He attended Newport Beach Elementary School, Horace Ensign Junior High and Newport Harbor High School. After graduating, he attended Orange Coast College and studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Jason
Rick Jason (born Richard Jacobson; May 21, 1923 – October 16, 2000) was an American actor, born in New York City, and most remembered for starring in the ABC television drama ''Combat!'' (1962–1967). Childhood An only child of Jewish parents, Jason was expelled from several prep schools before graduating from Rhodes Preparatory School in Manhattan. Military service Rick Jason served from 1943 to 1945 in the U.S. Army Air Corps, during World War II. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he visited American troops serving in Vietnam on several USO tours. Acting career Later, MGM was searching for an actor to replace Fernando Lamas in the 1953 movie ''Sombrero'' and gave the role to Jason, who was earlier released from Columbia Pictures. This led to Jason being cast in '' The Saracen Blade'' (1954) and '' This Is My Love'' (1954). In 1956, Jason played the lead in '' The Fountain of Youth'', a half-hour unsold pilot written and directed by Orson Welles which won the Peabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason (given Name)
Jason is a common masculine given name. It comes from Greek (), meaning "healer", from the verb (), "heal", "cure", cognate with (), the goddess of healing, and (), "healer", "physician". Forms of related words have been attested in Greek from as far back as Mycenaen (in Linear B) and Arcadocypriot (in the Cypriot syllabary) Greek: , ''i-ja-te'' and ''i-ja-te-ra-ne'', respectively, both regarded as standing for inflected forms of , "healer". The name was borne in Greek mythology by Jason, the great Thessalian hero who led the Argonauts in the quest for the Golden Fleece. The name is also found in the New Testament, as the house of a man named Jason was used as a refuge by Paul and Silas. In his case, it could come as a Hellenized form of Joshua. Its adoption in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1970s, when it was among the top 20 male names, but it had fallen out of the top 100 by 2003. Jason is the most common spelling; however, there are many variant spel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason (other)
Jason is a hero of Greek mythology who led the Argonauts and married Medea. Jason or JASON may also refer to: Names *Jason (given name) * Jason (surname) Entertainment * Jason Voorhees, the primary antagonist of the ''Friday the 13th'' franchise * Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film) * ''Jason and the Argonauts'' (miniseries) Places *Jason, North Carolina *Jason Islands, Falkland Islands Transport * HMS ''Jason'', several ships in the Royal Navy * ''Jason'' (ship), Norwegian whaling vessel * USS ''Jason'' (AC-12), 1912–1936 * USS ''Jason'' (AR-8), US Navy repair ship 1944–1995 Exploration science *Jason (rocket), sounding rocket launched in 1958 * ''Jason'' (ROV), unmanned submersible robot developed by Robert Ballard * Jason Jr., prototype of the Jason robot submersible used to explore the wreck of the RMS ''Titanic'' *Jason satellite series (Joint Altimetry Satellite Oceanography Network), a series of oceanographic radar altimeter satellites **Jason-1, satellite altimet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
