Warren Chetham-Strode

Who was Warren Chetham-Strode?

Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode, MC, was an English author and playwright. He wrote several plays including The Guinea Pig which was turned into a movie in 1948. He also wrote screenplays for several films between 1935 and 1951 including Odette.

He wrote the BBC Radio series, The Barlowes of Beddington, which ran from 1955–1959. 'The story of a public school seen through the eyes of a Headmaster and his Wife'. Patrick Barr played Robert Barlowe the headmaster and Pauline Jameson, Kate, his wife. Evans, the Head Boy, was Edward Hardwicke, John Charlesworth was Finlay, Barry McGregor was Shepherd and boys in the background were pupils from Barking Abbey School. Geoffrey Wincott played Dogget, the School Porter and Anthony Shaw was the Governor, General Naseby.

He was educated at Sherborne School. During World War I, he was commissioned into the Border Regiment. As a lieutenant, he was awarded the Military Cross in 1916. His elder brother Edward Randall Chetham-Strode was killed in action in 1917.