Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

Countdown to War

Lovejoy

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

My Cousin Rachel

The Good Companions

The Professionals

Backs to the Land

Raffles

Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes

The Witches of Pendle

Father Brown

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Fall of Eagles

The Love Pill

Anywhere but England

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Calculated Nightmare

The Black Tulip

Paul Temple

The Main Chance

The Expert

The First Lady

Strangler's Web

The Man In Room 17

The Wednesday Play

Detective

Doctor Who

Z-Cars

The Avengers

The Challenge

The Secret Kingdom

Quatermass and the Pit

Abandon Ship

The Man in the Sky

The Long Arm

The Cruel Sea

The Happy Family

Appointment with Venus

Seven Days to Noon

The Cure for Love

The Small Back Room

John Wilson Stratton (7 November 1925 – 25 October 1991) was a British actor, born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, where he kept his permanent home.
He is perhaps best known for his early film roles during the fifties, where he played the young apprentice parts of Ferraby and Ward opposite Jack Hawkins in both The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Long Arm (1956) respectively. He played a similar role on television in the third Quatermass serial Quatermass and the Pit, essaying the role of Captain Potter opposite André Morell's Professor Bernard Quatermass.
Older and less boyish by the sixties, he emerged as character actor of some range, playing numerous roles in many television programmes of the decade including the part of alcoholic journalist Fred Blane in It's Dark Outside. Other TV appearances include Dixon of Dock Green, The Avengers, Armchair Theatre, The Man in Room 17, Public Eye, Mr. Rose, Z-Cars, Sherlock Holmes (playing Inspector Athelney Jones), Coronation Street, UFO ("E.S.P." episode), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Hadleigh, The Forgotten Story, Softly, Softly, The Pallisers, Alan Plater's 1980 Yorkshire Television adaptation of J.B. Priestley's The Good Companions (in the central role of Jess Oakroyd), Fall of Eagles, Backs to the Land, The Professionals, Doctor Who (in the serial The Two Doctors), Juliet Bravo, The Trinity Tales and Lovejoy.

John Stratton