Background
Stride was born in London, the son of Margaret (née Prescott) and Alfred Teneriffe Stride.
Stride was born in London, the son of Margaret (née Prescott) and Alfred Teneriffe Stride.
He attended Alleyn"s School, Dulwich, and trained at RADA, where he met his first wife, Virginia Stride (née Thomas).
He made his first, uncredited, screen appearance in the film. He also played the role of Bob, the barman, in the film, based on the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton. He appeared at the Old Vic as Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli"s long-running production of Romeo and Juliet, first staged in 1960, with Judi Dench, and also as Prince Hal in Henry IV, Participant 1.
At the end of the 1960s he played Rosencrantz at the Old Vic, in the National Theatre Company"s production of Tom Stoppard"s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Stride appeared in two Shakespeare production during the 1970s made for the large and small screen respectively. In Roman Polanski"s version of he played the role of Ross.
Foreign the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Shakespeare production of Shakespeare"s Henry VIII (1979) he was cast in the lead as the Tudor King. Meanwhile, Stride had developed a career in popular television drama series.
In the Independent Television series The Main Chance (1969-1975) he played the solicitor, David Main.
lieutenant is the television role with which he became most closely associated, and lasted four series. A later series also made by Yorkshire Television with Stride in the lead, Wilde Alliance (1978), lasted for only one series. He also played one of the main parts in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s adaptation of Kingsley Amis"s novel The Old Devils (1992).