John Edward Stride (11 July 1936 – 20 April 2018) was an English actor best known for his television work in the 1970s.
[1] He attended Alleyn's School, Dulwich, and trained at RADA, where he met his first wife, Virginia Stride (née Thomas).
He also played the role of Bob, the barman, in the film Bitter Harvest (1963), based on the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton.
[citation needed] BBC Producer Adrian Mourby wrote "John Stride actually played the lead in The Old Devils, the character of Alun Weaver.
When I proposed to Penguin Books that the tie-in paperback was re-issued with the Old Devils themselves on the front cover and John on the back – because Alun was an interloper and catalyst in their world – he rang me up late at night and threatened to kill me.
Stride died on 20 April 2018, aged 81 in a care home after being discharged from Sandford Ward, at the Fulbrook Centre, Oxford.[where?