Strother Martin

Acting • Born 1919-03-26 – Died 1980-08-01

Acting1Kokomo, Indiana, USA

Biography

Strother Martin (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, where he uttered the line, "What we've got here is...failure to communicate."

Filmography

171 credits

Cool Hand Luke

Movie • 1967

Captain

The Wild Bunch

Movie • 1969

Coffer

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Movie • 1969

Percy Garris

Mitzi & 100 Guys

Movie • 1975

Self

Nevada Smith

Movie • 1966

Strother (uncredited)

Hard Times

Movie • 1975

Poe

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Movie • 1962

Floyd

Slap Shot

Movie • 1977

Joe McGrath

Up in Smoke

Movie • 1978

Mr. Stoner

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Movie • 1970

Bowen

Hannie Caulder

Movie • 1971

Rufus Clemens

Attack

Movie • 1956

Ingersol

Brainstorm

Movie • 1965

Mr. Clyde

The End

Movie • 1978

Dr. Waldo Kling

The Brotherhood of Satan

Movie • 1971

Doc Duncan

McLintock!

Movie • 1963

Agard

Love and Bullets

Movie • 1979

Louis Monk

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

Movie • 1973

Buckshot

The Sons of Katie Elder

Movie • 1965

Ned Ross

Pocket Money

Movie • 1972

Bill Garrett

The Wild and the Innocent

Movie • 1959

Ben Stocker

True Grit

Movie • 1969

Colonel G. Stonehill

The Deadly Companions

Movie • 1961

Parson

Nightwing

Movie • 1979

Selwyn

The Horse Soldiers

Movie • 1959

Virgil

Kiss Me Deadly

Movie • 1955

Harvey Wallace

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

Movie • 1980

George Westinghouse

Sssssss

Movie • 1973

Dr. Carl Stoner

The Mountains of the Moon

Movie • 1967

O'Keefe

The Silver Chalice

Movie • 1954

Father (uncredited)

South Sea Woman

Movie • 1953

Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)

The Villain

Movie • 1979

Parody Jones

Hotwire

Movie • 1980

The Weasel

Target Zero

Movie • 1955

Pvt. Dan O'Hirons

Copper Sky

Movie • 1957

Pokey

Sanctuary

Movie • 1961

Dog Boy

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

Movie • 1976

Billy

Rooster Cogburn

Movie • 1975

Shanghai McCoy

The Asphalt Jungle

Movie • 1950

William Doldy (uncredited)

Androcles and the Lion

Movie • 1952

Soldier (uncredited)

Invitation to a Gunfighter

Movie • 1964

Fiddler

Fools' Parade

Movie • 1971

Lee Cottrill

Steel Cowboy

Movie • 1978

Pinky Pincus

Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy

Movie • 1978

Turtle Ranch Boss

The Shaggy Dog

Movie • 1959

Thurm

A Star Is Born

Movie • 1954

Delivery Boy (uncredited)

The Flim-Flam Man

Movie • 1967

Lovick

World Without End

Movie • 1956

Nihka (uncredited)

Black Patch

Movie • 1957

Petey

Cowboy

Movie • 1958

Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake

The Champ

Movie • 1979

Riley

Red Sky at Morning

Movie • 1971

John Cloyd

An Eye for an Eye

Movie • 1966

Trumbull

The Red Badge of Courage

Movie • 1951

Corporal (voice) (uncredited)

Harper

Movie • 1966

Claude

The Damned Don't Cry

Movie • 1950

Springboard Diver (uncredited)

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

Movie • 1978

Old Hollander

The Black Whip

Movie • 1956

Thorny

The Magnetic Monster

Movie • 1953

Co-Pilot

Bitter Heritage

Movie • 1958

Earle Eheeler

Showdown

Movie • 1963

Charlie Reeder

Shenandoah

Movie • 1965

Train Engineer

Drum Beat

Movie • 1954

Scotty

Storm Over Tibet

Movie • 1952

Co-pilot

The Big Knife

Movie • 1955

Stillman

Better Late Than Never

Movie • 1979

J.D. Ashcroft

Strategic Air Command

Movie • 1955

Airman

Rhubarb

Movie • 1951

Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)

Johnny Concho

Movie • 1956

Townsman (uncredited)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Movie • 2004

Self (archive footage)

World for Ransom

Movie • 1954

One of Our Own

Movie • 1975

LeRoy Atkins

The Flim Flam Man

Movie • 1972

Lovick

Movin' On

TV • 1974

The Rookies

TV • 1972

Gilligan's Island

TV • 1964

Hawkins

TV • 1973

R.J. Hawkins

Marcus Welby, M.D.

TV • 1969

Terry Riggs

Baretta

TV • 1975

I Love Lucy

TV • 1951

Man in Coffee Shop

Lost in Space

TV • 1965

Nerim

Dragnet

TV • 1951

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Mr. Stooler

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Pete Gibson

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Gunnery Officer Daly

Lassie

TV • 1954

Hallmark Hall of Fame

TV • 1951

Old Hollander

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Bates

Vega$

TV • 1978

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Run for Your Life

TV • 1965

Holly Amberton

Daniel Boone

TV • 1964

Solomon Tarbot

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Deputy Shirky Saulter

The Millionaire

TV • 1955

Pete Hill

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Finley

The Big Valley

TV • 1965

Dan'l Hawks

Pete and Gladys

TV • 1960

Profiles in Courage

TV • 1964

Senator James Wadsworth

Matinee Theater

TV • 1955

Tarzan

TV • 1966

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

TV • 1956

Navy Log

TV • 1955

Black Saddle

TV • 1959

Pit Thatcher

The Rebel

TV • 1959

Jess

The Dakotas

TV • 1963

Lawman

TV • 1958

Ben Casey

TV • 1961

The Guns of Will Sonnett

TV • 1967

The New Breed

TV • 1961

Benny Kohler

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

Wilkins

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Joby

Hotel de Paree

TV • 1959

Stoney Burke

TV • 1962

The Legend of Jesse James

TV • 1965

Meeker

Telephone Time

TV • 1956

Dangerous Assignment

TV • 1952

Panic!

TV • 1957

Jefferson Drum

TV • 1958

Pete Henke

Paper Moon

TV • 1974

Saturday Night Live

TV • 1975

Self - Host

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Luther Watson

Broken Arrow

TV • 1956

Renton

He & She

TV • 1967

The Rev. Mr. Anderson

Nichols

TV • 1971

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