Strother Martin
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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."
Known for
Credits
True Grit (1969)
as Colonel G. Stonehill
Sssssss (1973)
as Dr. Carl Stoner
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
as Percy Garris
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
as Captain
The Wild Bunch (1969)
as Coffer
Harper (1966)
as Claude
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
as Floyd
McLintock! (1963)
as Agard
Slap Shot (1977)
as Joe McGrath
Hannie Caulder (1971)
as Rufus Clemens
Up in Smoke (1978)
as Mr. Stoner
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
as Ned Ross
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)
as Billy
Hard Times (1975)
as Poe
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
as Virgil
Nevada Smith (1966)
as Strother (uncredited)
The Champ (1979)
as Riley
A Star Is Born (1954)
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
as William Doldy (uncredited)
The Villain (1979)
as Parody Jones
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
as Harvey Wallace
Shenandoah (1965)
as Train Engineer
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Bowen
The Silver Chalice (1954)
as Father (uncredited)
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
as Shanghai McCoy
Pocket Money (1972)
as Bill Garrett
The End (1978)
as Dr. Waldo Kling
Cowboy (1958)
as Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
as Fiddler
Attack (1956)
as Ingersol
Drum Beat (1954)
as Scotty
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
as Thurm
Fools' Parade (1971)
as Lee Cottrill
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
The Big Knife (1955)
as Stillman
Strategic Air Command (1955)
as Airman
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
as Co-Pilot
Black Patch (1957)
as Petey
World Without End (1956)
as Nihka (uncredited)
Love and Bullets (1979)
as Louis Monk
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
as Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
Nightwing (1979)
as Selwyn
The Deadly Companions (1961)
as Parson
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
as Lovick
Steel Cowboy (1978)
as Pinky Pincus
South Sea Woman (1953)
as Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
Target Zero (1955)
as Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
as Doc Duncan
The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
as Ben Stocker
Mitzi & 100 Guys (1975)
as Self
Sanctuary (1961)
as Dog Boy
Bitter Heritage (1958)
as Earle Eheeler
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
as Springboard Diver (uncredited)
Androcles and the Lion (1952)
as Soldier (uncredited)
Brainstorm (1965)
as Mr. Clyde
An Eye for an Eye (1966)
as Trumbull
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978)
as Turtle Ranch Boss
Better Late Than Never (1979)
as J.D. Ashcroft
Showdown (1963)
as Charlie Reeder
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980)
as George Westinghouse
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
as John Cloyd
One of Our Own (1975)
as LeRoy Atkins
Rhubarb (1951)
as Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
The Black Whip (1956)
as Thorny
Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978)
as Old Hollander
World for Ransom (1954)
Actor
Storm Over Tibet (1952)
as Co-pilot
The Mountains of the Moon (1967)
as O'Keefe
Copper Sky (1957)
as Pokey
The Flim Flam Man (1972)
as Lovick
Hotwire (1980)
as The Weasel
Johnny Concho (1956)
as Townsman (uncredited)
The Boy and the Bronc Buster (1973)
as Buckshot