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Stratford Johns

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Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a South African-born British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars. [1]

88 relations: A Night to Remember (1958 film), Able seaman, Across the Bridge (film), Actor, Alec Guinness, Angry young men, Annie (musical), Apartheid, Barlow at Large, BBC, Birmingham, Blake's 7, British intelligence agencies, Car Trouble (film), Cardiovascular disease, Cast recording, Channel 4, Charles I of England, Clare Grogan, Cromwell (film), Dance with a Stranger, Department S (TV series), Doctor Who, Ealing Studios, Eamonn Andrews, England, Ewan McGregor, Foreign Body (film), Four to Doomsday, Frederic Lindsay, George and Mildred (film), Ghost of Christmas Present, Great Expectations (1981 miniseries), Hand in Hand (film), Heveningham, I, Claudius (TV series), Indiscreet (1958 film), Jack the Ripper (1973 TV series), Jackanory, John Bradshaw (judge), John Osborne, Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon, Ken Russell, Law and Disorder (1958 film), Master of the Game (novel), Molly Weir, Neverwhere, Oliver Cromwell, Pietermaritzburg, Rachel Weisz, ..., Richard Harris, Robert Graves, Royal Court Theatre, Salome's Last Dance, Scarlet and Black (TV series), Scrooge (1970 film), Second Verdict, Softly, Softly (TV series), Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Southend-on-Sea, Splitting Heirs, Suffolk, Television, The Avengers (TV series), The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, The Fool (1990 film), The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, The Ladykillers, The Lair of the White Worm (film), The Long Arm (film), The Night My Number Came Up, The One That Got Away (1957 film), The Plank (1967 film), The Professionals (1960 film), The Ship That Died of Shame, The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It, This Is Your Life (UK TV series), Tiger in the Smoke, TV-am, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, Variety, the Children's Charity, Violent Playground, Who Done It? (1956 film), Wild Geese II, Women Without Men (1956 film), World War II, Z-Cars. Expand index (38 more) »

A Night to Remember (1958 film)

A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lord's 1955 book, which recounts the final night of the.

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Able seaman

An able seaman (AB) is a naval rating of the deck department of a merchant ship with more than two years' experience at sea and considered "well acquainted with his duty".

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Across the Bridge (film)

Across the Bridge is a 1957 British film directed by Ken Annakin.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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Angry young men

The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s.

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Annie (musical)

Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan.

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Apartheid

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Barlow at Large

Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Blake's 7

Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC.

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British intelligence agencies

The Government of the United Kingdom maintains intelligence agencies within several different government departments.

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Car Trouble (film)

Car Trouble is a 1986 British comedy film starring Julie Walters, Ian Charleston and Vincent Riotta.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.

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Cast recording

A cast recording is a recording of a stage musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Clare Grogan

Claire Patricia Grogan (born 17 March 1962), known professionally as Clare Grogan or sometimes as C. P. Grogan, is a Scottish actress and singer.

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Cromwell (film)

Cromwell is a British 1970 historical drama film written and directed by Ken Hughes.

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Dance with a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 British drama film, directed by Mike Newell.

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Department S (TV series)

Department S is a British spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London.

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Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor, known internationally for his various film roles, including independent dramas, science-fiction epics, and musicals.

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Foreign Body (film)

Foreign Body is a 1986 British romantic comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and adapted from the 1975 Roderick Mann novel of the same name.

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Four to Doomsday

Four to Doomsday is the second serial of the 19th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 18–26 January 1982.

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Frederic Lindsay

Frederic Lindsay (12 August 1933 – 31 May 2013) was a Scottish crime writer, who was born in Glasgow and lived in Edinburgh.

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George and Mildred (film)

George and Mildred is a 1980 British comedy film directed by Peter Frazer Jones.

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Ghost of Christmas Present

The Ghost of Christmas Present or The Spirit of Christmas Present is a fictional character in the work A Christmas Carol by novelist Charles Dickens.

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Great Expectations (1981 miniseries)

Great Expectations is a 1981 BBC TV miniseries, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

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Hand in Hand (film)

Hand in Hand is a 1960 black and white Associated British Picture Corporation dramatic film about the friendship between two young children, one a Roman Catholic boy about nine, the other a 7-year-old Jewish girl.

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Heveningham

Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England.

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I, Claudius (TV series)

I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God.

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Indiscreet (1958 film)

Indiscreet is a 1958 Technicolor British romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

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Jack the Ripper (1973 TV series)

Jack the Ripper is a six-part BBC television drama made in 1973, in which the case of the Jack the Ripper murders is reopened and analysed by Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt (Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor, respectively).

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Jackanory

Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 1965 to 1996.

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John Bradshaw (judge)

John Bradshaw (15 July 1602 – 31 October 1659) was an English judge.

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John Osborne

John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms.

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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon is a 1967 Eastman color British science fiction comedy film directed by Don Sharp and starring Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe and Terry-Thomas.

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Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style.

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Law and Disorder (1958 film)

Law and Disorder is a 1958 British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Joan Hickson, Lionel Jeffries.

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Master of the Game (novel)

Master of the Game is a novel by Sidney Sheldon, first published in hardback format in 1982.

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Molly Weir

Mary Weir, known as Molly Weir (17 March 1910 – 28 November 2004) was a Scottish actress, most notable for her role as the long-running (1977–1984) character Hazel the McWitch in the BBC TV series Rentaghost. She was the sister of naturalist and broadcaster Tom Weir.

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Neverwhere

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.

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Pietermaritzburg

Pietermaritzburg (Zulu: umGungundlovu) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Rachel Weisz

Rachel Hannah Weisz ("vice"; born 7 March 1970) is an English actress.

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Richard Harris

Richard St.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Salome's Last Dance

Salome's Last Dance is a 1988 film by British film director Ken Russell.

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Scarlet and Black (TV series)

Scarlet and Black is a British four-part television drama series first aired in 1993 on BBC 1 by the BBC with a cast including Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz.

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Scrooge (1970 film)

Scrooge is a 1970 British musical film adaptation in Panavision of Charles Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol.

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Second Verdict

Second Verdict is a six-part BBC television series from 1976, of dramatised documentaries in which classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history were re-appraised by fictional police officers.

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Softly, Softly (TV series)

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966.

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Softly, Softly: Taskforce

Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976.

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Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea, commonly referred to as simply Southend, is a town and wider unitary authority area with borough status in southeastern Essex, England.

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Splitting Heirs

Splitting Heirs is a 1993 British film directed by Robert Young and starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961.

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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

The Fiendish Plot of Dr.

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The Fool (1990 film)

The Fool is a 1990 British film, produced and directed by Christine Edzard from a script by Edzard and Olivier Stockman.

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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

The Great St.

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The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios.

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The Lair of the White Worm (film)

The Lair of the White Worm is a 1988 British horror film based loosely on the Bram Stoker novel of the same name and drawing upon the English legend of the Lambton Worm.

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The Long Arm (film)

The Long Arm (USA: The Third Key) is a 1956 British film noir police procedural crime film starring Jack Hawkins.

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The Night My Number Came Up

The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 British supernatural drama film directed by Leslie Norman with the screenplay written by R. C. Sherriff.

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The One That Got Away (1957 film)

The One That Got Away is a 1957 Second World War film starring Hardy Krüger and featuring Michael Goodliffe, Jack Gwillim and Alec McCowen.

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The Plank (1967 film)

The Plank is a 1967 British slapstick comedy short film made by Associated London Films.

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The Professionals (1960 film)

The Professionals is a 1960 British crime thriller, directed by Don Sharp.

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The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame, released in the United States as PT Raiders, is a black-and-white 1955 Ealing Studios crime film directed by Basil Dearden and starring George Baker, Richard Attenborough and Bill Owen.

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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It is a 1977 comedy directed by Joseph McGrath and starring John Cleese.

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This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title.

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Tiger in the Smoke

Tiger in the Smoke is a 1956 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker (billed as Roy Baker) and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles and Christopher Rhodes.

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TV-am

TV-am was a TV company that broadcast the ITV franchise for breakfast television in the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 until 31 December 1992.

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Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Variety, the Children's Charity

Variety, the Children's Charity is an organization founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1927, when a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the "Variety Club".

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Violent Playground

Violent Playground is a 1958 British film directed by Basil Dearden starring Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing and David McCallum.

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Who Done It? (1956 film)

Who Done It? is a 1956 British comedy film starring comedian Benny Hill and Belinda Lee.

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Wild Geese II

Wild Geese II is a 1985 British action-thriller film directed by Peter Hunt, based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney, in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

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Women Without Men (1956 film)

Women Without Men is a 1956 British crime drama film directed by Elmo Williams and Herbert Glazer and starring Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice and Hermione Baddeley.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Lancashire (now Merseyside).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_Johns

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