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  1. 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 play in ...

  2. 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).

  3. 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).

  4. Jan 31, 2002 · In the groundbreaking 1960s series Z Cars, the heavyweight detective inspector, played by Stratford Johns, was a bully who used verbal, and sometimes physical, abuse while interrogating...

  5. Stratford Johns Biography (1925-) Full name, Alan E. Stratford Johns; born September 22, 1925, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; son of Sidney Alan (an engine driver) and Dorothy Ada (Stratford) Johns; married Nanette Ryder (an actress), March 21, 1955; children:Frith, Peta, Alan, Lissa.

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. Tired of seeing television detectives portrayed as bumbling and ineffective, Johns played Detective Inspector Barlow as an abrasive bully who used verbal and physical intimidation to get results; this was an entirely new television policeman, who became a template for many 'maverick' detectives to follow.

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