Strode (surname)

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Strode is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Andre Strode is a former American football defensive back who played five seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Birmingham Barracudas, BC Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He played college football at Colorado State University.

Aubrey E. Strode Member of the Senate of Virginia

Aubrey Ellis Strode was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he was a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 19th district. He was a strong advocate for Jim Crow laws. Strode authored Virginia's sterilization law. Strode also represented the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded in its court case for forced sterilizations of people identified as morons (feebleminded) based on eugenics arguments. Strode argued the test case for the forced Sterilization of Carrie Buck before the U.S. Supreme Court. Buck’s attorney was a friend of Strode's since childhood, Irving Whitehead, who had also served on the Colony's board.

William Hall "Bill" Strode III was an American photographer.

Fictional

The surname "Strode" has been used in fiction. This includes:

Laurie Strode fictional character in the Halloween franchise

Laurie Strode is a fictional character in the Halloween franchise, portrayed by actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Scout Taylor-Compton. One of the two main protagonists of the overall series, she appears in seven of the eleven Halloween films, first appearing in John Carpenter's original 1978 film. Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed the role in the original run of the series, with Scout Taylor-Compton taking the role in Rob Zombie's remake and its sequel. In September 2017, it was announced that Curtis signed on to reprise her role in Halloween, which was released in October 2018. The film retcons the previous sequels out of existence and serves as a direct sequel to the original film.

<i>Halloween</i> (1978 film) 1978 film by John Carpenter

Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film tells the story of serial killer Michael Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on Halloween night, fifteen years after he murdered his teenage sister, Judith Myers. After escaping a sanitarium, he returns home to the sleepy town of Haddonfield, Illinois while being pursued by his psychiatrist Samuel Loomis. Michael stalks high school student Laurie Strode and her friends as they babysit and carries out a horrific massacre. Dr. Loomis desperately seeks to find his patient to stop his rampage, before the carnage intensifies.

See also

Alfred Rowland Chetham-Strode was a New Zealand colonial public servant and politician.

Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode, MC was an English author and playwright. He wrote several plays including The Guinea Pig (1946) which was turned into a film in 1948. He also wrote screenplays for several films between 1935 and 1951 including Odette (1950).

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