The Paradise Club
Premiered: Sep 19, 1989 | 2 seasons | 20 episodes
Popularity: 6
| Creator: | Murray Smith |
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| The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| David Swift | Max Wartbug | 20 |
| Don Henderson | Frank Kane | 20 |
| Peter Gowen | Jonjo O'Brady | 20 |
| Leslie Grantham | Danny Kane | 20 |
| Barbara Wilshere | Carol Kane | 20 |
| Leon Herbert | Polish Joe | 20 |
| Kitty Aldridge | DI Rosy Campbell | 10 |
| Jack Galloway | DS Jack Nesbitt | 10 |
| Pete Lee-Wilson | DC Milligan | 10 |
| Philip Martin Brown | Peter Noonan | 10 |
| Thomas Craig | DS Lambton | 10 |
| Caroline Bliss | DI Sarah Turnbull | 10 |
| Frederick Warder | DCS Graham | 10 |
| David Ryall | Bishop Sykes | 4 |
| Oona Kirsch | DC Tilly Spink | 3 |
| Ian Lindsay | DCS Torrance | 3 |
| Freddie Earlle | Walter Trafficante | 3 |
| Mark Monero | Luther | 3 |
| Ken Drury | DCS George Gibson | 2 |
| Philip Bretherton | DI Don Wright | 2 |
| Martin Clunes | Willy Bruce | 2 |
| Ben Daniels | DC Webster | 2 |
| Nicholas Pritchard | Peregrine Powell | 2 |
| Tony Marshall | Chas McGhee | 2 |
| Peter Dennis | Dr Agnew | 2 |
| Sheila Keith | Ma Kane | 2 |
| Sheila Keith | Clara Malone | 2 |
| Shend | Nick 'The Enforcer' Collett | 2 |
| Paul Moriarty | Calvin Jackson | 2 |
| Nick Gillard | Nicky The Frost | 2 |
| Oliver Smith | DS Dennis Last | 2 |
| Gina McKee | Bank Teller | 1 |
| Frank Vincent | Walter MacHeath | 1 |
| John Normington | Magnus McKendrick | 1 |
| Phil Davis | Walter 'Wally' Fagin | 1 |
| Larry Lamb | James Dexter | 1 |
| Walter Sparrow | Barney Bailey | 1 |
| Susan Brown | Audrey | 1 |
| Paul Copley | Mousey Pavitt | 1 |
| James Greene | Brother Andrew | 1 |
| David Barrass | Jerry | 1 |
| Victor Spinetti | Elliott Rossini | 1 |
| Greg Ellis | Peter | 1 |
| John Cater | Monsignor Flynn | 1 |
| Stephen Boxer | Harry Thomas | 1 |
| Mike Edmonds | Stan Tubbs | 1 |
| Des McAleer | DCS Flemyng | 1 |
| Mako | Mr. Yamamoto | 1 |
| Kenny Ireland | Tam Gillespie | 1 |
| Ivan Kaye | Arthur Burns | 1 |
| Dominic Keating | Gregor | 1 |
| P.H. Moriarty | Evil Jim Dalton | 1 |
| Judi Trott | DI Liz Cunningham | 1 |
| Mark Lewis | Chas Meyer | 1 |
| Bill Fellows | Sammy Chase | 1 |
| Ronan Vibert | Ricky Wooley | 1 |
| Malcolm Terris | Sammy Jansen | 1 |
| Maureen Bennett | Middle Class Lady | 1 |
| Eiji Kusuhara | Yakuza #1 | 1 |
| Malcolm Raeburn | DS Tommy Cooper | 1 |
| Michael Attwell | Johnny Ivory | 1 |
| Anthony Allen | Harry Vincent | 1 |
| Arturo Venegas | Ricardo Carillo | 1 |
| Dicken Ashworth | Fred O'Connor | 1 |
| Jason Durr | Tony Bracciola | 1 |
| Tim Stern | Little Legs Jackson | 1 |
| Sandra Voe | Grace Noonan | 1 |
| Treva Etienne | Colonel Mombassa | 1 |
| Tony Selby | Jack Deverell | 1 |
| John Benfield | Det. Supt. Chivers | 1 |
| Philip Voss | Monsignor Drayford | 1 |
| John Altman | Eddie | 1 |
| Harry Towb | Syd Mann | 1 |
| Charles Pemberton | Charlie O'Neill | 1 |
| Richard Syms | Building Society Manager | 1 |
| James Ottaway | Syd Mellors | 1 |
| Mark Northover | Albert Ironside | 1 |
| Derek Newark | Bobby Mulgrew | 1 |
| Sian Webber | Jessica Daltry | 1 |
| Graham Fellows | John Shuttleworth | 1 |
| Charlotte Mitchell | Dolly Mellors | 1 |
| Su Elliot | Blousey Woman | 1 |
| Robert Arden | Marzocca | 1 |
| Bill Thomas | Neville Wickens | 1 |
| Tony Rohr | Rev. O'Connor | 1 |
| Charles Simon | Percy | 1 |
| Tom Knight | Arthur Buckle | 1 |
| David Simeon | Priest | 1 |
| Jeremy Young | Wilson | 1 |
| Paul Geoffrey | Tim Fanshawe | 1 |
| Tom Hudson | Bill | 1 |
| John Bardon | 'Mad' Max Wheeler | 1 |
| Tony Bluto | Graham | 1 |
| Peter Gunn | Eddie Cleary | 1 |
| Michael Crompton | DI Leitch | 1 |
| Bhasker Patel | Newsagent | 1 |
| Anthony O'Donnell | Constantinou | 1 |
| Adam Bareham | Jack Rivers | 1 |
| Stephen Lewis | Reggie Organ | 1 |
| Vic Tablian | Kemil | 1 |
| Bruce Dickinson | Battle of the Bands Performer | 1 |
| Bruce Dickinson | Jake Skinner | 1 |
| Aaron Harris | Reg Pyke | 1 |
| Arabella Weir | Rebecca Ford | 1 |
| Su Douglas | Madame Le Clerk | 1 |
| Doña Croll | Clerk of Court | 1 |
| Olaf Pooley | Sir David Huxley | 1 |
| George Zenios | Nick Stephanopolis | 1 |
| Ron Pember | Fred Noonan | 1 |
| David Garlick | Begging Youth | 1 |
| Nick Powell | Ronnie Dexter | 1 |
| Jack Ellis | Ginger | 1 |
| Louis Mellis | DC Supt Agnew | 1 |
| Laurence Kennedy | Constable | 1 |
| Wayne Norman | Billy Dink | 1 |
| Kenneth Hadley | Brother Tom | 1 |
| Rocky Taylor | Getaway Driver | 1 |
| Trevor Martin | Sir Wetherly Weeks | 1 |
| James Bowers | DC Johnson | 1 |
| Corinne Skinner-Carter | Betty McGhee | 1 |
| Harold Goodwin | Percy Lovell | 1 |
| Elaine Lordan | Mandy | 1 |
| Rory Edwards | Pete 'The Worst' Tasker | 1 |
| Hilary Sesta | Styles' Neighbour | 1 |
| Robert Hamilton | DS Grace | 1 |
| Tom Marshall | Lotz | 1 |
| Roderick Smith | Gary Belstead | 1 |
| Michael Feast | Ronnie Hackett | 1 |
| Peter Caffrey | Truck Driver | 1 |