Trivia

His wife was the daughter of Morris Parsons and Mona Ewins.

He was offered for the role of Ratcliffe (played by George Sewell) in Doctor Who Remembrance Of The Daleks.

By the early 1970s, the actor began to tire of playing the Barlow character.

Elwyn Jones dedicated the 1975 novel 'The Barlow Casebook' "to Stratford Johns who continues to deepen and develop his own 'creation' of Barlow.".

Johns and wife Nanette Ryder named their son Alan, and their 3 daughter Frith, Peta, and Lissa.