John Stride is Dead.

[Conchis]

A name that will mean very little to those under the age of, say, 65 - but he was a fairly big name on television in the seventies and into the early nineties. He is principally remembered for his role as the womanising solicitor David Wilde in Wilde Alliance.

Those old enough (not me) may remember that he created the role of Rosencrantz in Stoppared's Rosencrantz & Guiildenstern Are Dead. He also played Brecht's Edward ll at the NT in the 60s.


Joe and Joanna Public's last glimpse of him was probably his brief scene as the pyschiatrist (opposite Gregory Peck) in the satanic exploitation film The Omen.


I saw his death reported on facebook yesterday morning but the MSM didn't catch up until late last night - and then only in the form of this miserable obituary (stuck behind a paywall) from the old duffer's organ The Telegraph. The Candy Crush Saga-playing teenagers who staff the Guardian's obit office haven't caught up yet (and probably never will):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/04/24/john-stride-actor-obituary/

[jean]

I remember him well, playing Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger in repertory at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1957.

[Conchis]

I remember him well, playing Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger in repertory at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1957.

Yes: I remember my mother mentioning he'd been at Liverpool Playhouse.

But when I told her he'd died, her response was: 'Who was he?'

Time does terrible things to the memory.....

[Pianorak]

I remember him as a splendid Romeo to Judy Dench's Juliet at the (Old Vic in 1960?). RIP