Stratford Johns, born Alan Edgar Stratford-Johns, (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002) was a popular English 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.

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He married Nanette Ryder in 1955; they had four children. He ran the small hotel in St Martins Lane called the St Martins Hotel; it was managed by Elizabeth Kissick-Jones, formerly Hartnell, who was the aunt of his wife Nannette. The hotel was very popular with actors and he ran it until 1976.

After several years of poor health, Johns died from heart disease in 2002, aged 76.