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