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