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Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for playing the role as senior CID officer Charlie Barlow, a character he originated in the early years of the long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, and then continued to ...
Stratford Johns. Actor: Cromwell. South African-born Stratford Johns was forever associated with the role of tough, abrasive Superintendant Charlie Barlow on TV's Z Cars (1962) and its sequels Softly Softly: Task Force (1969) and Barlow at Large (1971).
Stratford Johns. Actor: Cromwell. South African-born Stratford Johns was forever associated with the role of tough, abrasive Superintendant Charlie Barlow on TV's Z Cars (1962) and its sequels Softly Softly: Task Force (1969) and Barlow at Large (1971).
Jan 30, 2002 · Actor Stratford Johns, known to millions for his roles in police dramas Softly Softly Task Force and Z Cars, had died at the age of 77, it was announced today. The star had had a period of ill...
Jan 31, 2002 · Alan Edgar Stratford Johns, actor: born Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 22 February 1925; married 1955 Nanette Ryder (one son, three daughters); died Heveningham, Suffolk 29 January 2002. News...
Jan 31, 2002 · The actor Stratford Johns, best known for his television roles in Z Cars and Softly Softly Task Force, has died from a heart condition at his Suffolk home at the age of 77.
Jan 30, 2002 · BBC News Online looks back at the career of actor Stratford Johns, who has died aged 77. Stratford Johns helped transform television police dramas in 1962, when he made his debut in the BBC's Z...
Jan 31, 2002 · STRATFORD JOHNS, the actor who has died aged 76, established himself so firmly in the nation's imagination as the television detective Barlow in the 1960s and 1970s that he could...
Johns, Stratford (1925-2002) Actor Stratford Johns' ruthless, blunt and aggressive detective, Charlie Barlow, first seen in Z Cars (BBC, 1962-78), was so convincing that members of the public frequently mistook Johns for the real thing and asked him for help, while West Yorkshire Police asked him to appear in their television recruitment ...
Character actor Stratford Johns was best known for his unusual "half head of hair." The South African-born Johns spent most of his forty years before the camera in villainous, unsympathetic characterizations. Some of his better-known film roles include Bradshaw in Cromwell (1970) and Piso in the British TV miniseries I, Claudius.
