Death in Paradise: A Murder in the Skies
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Friday, May 22 on BBC Three (23)
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A Murder in the Skies
Season 13, Episode 8
A passenger disappears from a flight to Dominica, only to be found dead in Saint Marie, while the pilot and flight attendant deny even seeing the victim on the plane. Neville starts to question whether he's losing his mind, and the return of a familiar face presents him with a big decision to make
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Cast & Crew
Ralf Little
(Actor)
.. DI Neville Parker
Don Warrington
(Actor)
.. Commissioner Selwyn Patterson
Shantol Jackson
(Actor)
.. DS Naomi Thomas
Danny John-Jules
(Actor)
.. Officer Dwayne Myers
Ginny Holder
(Actor)
.. Officer Darlene Curtis
Elizabeth Bourgine
(Actor)
.. Catherine Bordey
Rachel Adedeji
(Actor)
.. Monette Gilbert
Calvin Demba
(Actor)
.. Kurt Henderson
Richard Fleeshman
(Actor)
.. Taylor Fielding
Josephine Jobert
(Actor)
.. DS Florence Cassell
Emma Naomi
(Actor)
.. Chelsea Fielding
Richard Lintern
(Actor)
.. Peter Holcroft
James Hall
(Writer)
Leon Lopez
(Director)
Joanna Hanley
(Producer)
Tim Key
(Executive producer)
Ceri Meyrick
(Executive producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Ralf Little
(Actor)
.. DI Neville Parker
Don Warrington
(Actor)
.. Commissioner Selwyn Patterson
Born:
May 23, 1951
in
Trinidad
Best Known For:
Playing Philip Smith in ITV sitcom Rising Damp.
Early-life:
Born Don Williams in Trinidad on May 23, 1951. He has an older brother. His father, Basil Kydd, died suddenly in Trinidad at the age of 48 in 1958 when Don was six. His mother, Shirley, decided to make a new life for herself in England while Don and his brother were looked after back in Trinidad by his grandmother. Shirley settled in Newcastle with a job at a metal factory and returned to Trinidad to collect her two sons. When Don was 12, his mother left for America to retrain as a nurse. Don and his brother were then looked after in England by his Auntie Lena. Don was 17 when he landed his first job as an assistant stage manager at Newcastle's Flora Robson Playhouse. He moved to London to train at the Drama Centre and then landed the role that made him famous.
Career:
Warrington began playing Philip Smith in ITV sitcom Rising Damp in 1974 alongside Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale. The hugely popular series ran until 1978 and led to a spin-off film. Decades later, Warrington directed the first UK stage tour of Rising Damp in 2013. He has also starred in Triangle, Crown Court, CATS Eyes, To Play the King, Grange Hill, Manchild, Holby City and The Crouches. More recently, he has appeared in Doctor Who, New Street Law, Casualty, Waking the Dead, Lewis and Death in Paradise. He has also performed with the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Bristol Old Vic. He competed in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing with professional dancer Lilia Kopylova. They were eliminated in week five.
Quote:
'My brother and I were the only black kids in our school. The way you survive in those circumstances is to become like the locals, so I became a Geordie who was good at football.'
Trivia:
Warrington was awarded an MBE in 2008.
Shantol Jackson
(Actor)
.. DS Naomi Thomas
Danny John-Jules
(Actor)
.. Officer Dwayne Myers
Born:
September 16, 1960
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing Cat in Red Dwarf.
Early-life:
Daniel John-Jules was born in London on September 16, 1960. He trained at the Omnibus Theatre Company and Anna Scher Children's Theatre, and started out as a dancer. He was a member of the original cast of Starlight Express, playing a boxcar called Rocky I.
Career:
John-Jules' other West End credits include Barnum, Time, Cats and Carmen Jones. He has appeared on TV in the likes of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, The Tomorrow People and M.I. High but he is best known for playing Cat in sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, a role he has played since 1988. His film credits include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1988), Blade II (2002) and Sucker Punch (2008). In 2011, he began playing Officer Dwayne Myers in Death in Paradise.
Quote:
'I love slipping from drama to comedy and feel blessed that I have a nice cross section of people who like the characters I perform.'
Trivia:
For a number of years, he played his Cat character in the annual Christmas pantomime at Aldershot's Prince's Hall theatre.
Ginny Holder
(Actor)
.. Officer Darlene Curtis
Elizabeth Bourgine
(Actor)
.. Catherine Bordey
Rachel Adedeji
(Actor)
.. Monette Gilbert
Calvin Demba
(Actor)
.. Kurt Henderson
Richard Fleeshman
(Actor)
.. Taylor Fielding
Josephine Jobert
(Actor)
.. DS Florence Cassell
Emma Naomi
(Actor)
.. Chelsea Fielding
Richard Lintern
(Actor)
.. Peter Holcroft
James Hall
(Writer)
Leon Lopez
(Director)
Joanna Hanley
(Producer)
Tim Key
(Executive producer)
Ceri Meyrick
(Executive producer)
