Birthday
1919/03/26
Day of death
1980/08/01 (61 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Also know as
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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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Strother Martin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
(1967) Cool Hand Luke
as Captain
(1969) The Wild Bunch
as Coffer
(1969) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as Percy Garris
(1975) Mitzi & 100 Guys
as Self
(1966) Nevada Smith
as Strother (uncredited)
(1975) Hard Times
as Poe
(1962) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Floyd
(1977) Slap Shot
as Joe McGrath
(1978) Up in Smoke
as Mr. Stoner
(1970) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Bowen
(1971) Hannie Caulder
as Rufus Clemens
(1956) Attack
as Ingersol
(1965) Brainstorm
as Mr. Clyde
(1978) The End
as Dr. Waldo Kling
(1971) The Brotherhood of Satan
as Doc Duncan
(1963) McLintock!
as Agard
(1979) Love and Bullets
as Louis Monk
(1973) The Boy and the Bronc Buster: Part 1
as Buckshot
(1965) The Sons of Katie Elder
as Ned Ross
(1972) Pocket Money
as Bill Garrett
(1959) The Wild and the Innocent
as Ben Stocker
(1969) True Grit
as Colonel G. Stonehill
(1961) The Deadly Companions
as Parson
(1979) Nightwing
as Selwyn
(1959) The Horse Soldiers
as Virgil
(1955) Kiss Me Deadly
as Harvey Wallace
(1980) The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
as George Westinghouse
(1973) Sssssss
as Dr. Carl Stoner
(1967) The Mountains of the Moon
as O'Keefe
(1954) The Silver Chalice
as Father (uncredited)
(1953) South Sea Woman
as Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
(1979) The Villain
as Parody Jones
(1980) Hotwire
as The Weasel
(1955) Target Zero
as Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
(1957) Copper Sky
as Pokey
(1961) Sanctuary
as Dog Boy
(1962) Pericles on 31st Street
as Bernard Klioris
(1976) The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
as Billy
(1975) Rooster Cogburn
as Shanghai McCoy
(1950) The Asphalt Jungle
as William Doldy (uncredited)
(1952) Androcles and the Lion
as Soldier (uncredited)
(1964) Invitation to a Gunfighter
as Fiddler
(1971) Fools' Parade
as Lee Cottrill
(1978) Steel Cowboy
as Pinky Pincus
(1978) Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
as Turtle Ranch Boss
(1959) The Shaggy Dog
as Thurm
(1954) A Star Is Born
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
(1967) The Flim-Flam Man
as Lovick
(1956) World Without End
as Nihka (uncredited)
(1957) Black Patch
as Petey
(1958) Cowboy
as Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
(1979) The Champ
as Riley
(1971) Red Sky at Morning
as John Cloyd
(1966) An Eye for an Eye
as Trumbull
(1951) The Red Badge of Courage
as Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
(1966) Harper
as Claude
(1950) The Damned Don't Cry
as Springboard Diver (uncredited)
(1978) Stubby Pringle's Christmas
as Old Hollander
(1956) The Black Whip
as Thorny
(1953) The Magnetic Monster
as Co-Pilot
(1958) Bitter Heritage
as Earle Eheeler
(1963) Showdown
as Charlie Reeder
(1965) Shenandoah
as Train Engineer
(1954) Drum Beat
as Scotty
(1952) Storm Over Tibet
as Co-pilot
(1955) The Big Knife
as Stillman
(1979) Better Late Than Never
as J.D. Ashcroft
(1955) Strategic Air Command
as Airman
(1951) Rhubarb
as Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
(1956) Johnny Concho
as Townsman (uncredited)
(2004) Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(1954) World for Ransom
as ---
(1975) One of Our Own
as LeRoy Atkins
(1974) Movin' On
as ---
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(1964) Gilligan's Island
as ---
(1973) Hawkins
as R.J. Hawkins
(1969) Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Terry Riggs
(1975) Baretta
as ---
(1951) I Love Lucy
as Man in Coffee Shop
(1965) Lost in Space
as Nerim
(1951) Dragnet
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Mr. Stooler
(1957) Perry Mason
as Pete Gibson
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Gunnery Officer Daly
(1954) Lassie
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Old Hollander
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Bates
(1978) Vega$
as ---
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Holly Amberton
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Solomon Tarbot
(1963) The Fugitive
as Deputy Shirky Saulter
(1955) The Millionaire
as Pete Hill
(1962) The Virginian
as Finley
(1965) The Big Valley
as Dan'l Hawks
(1960) Pete and Gladys
as ---
(1964) Profiles in Courage
as Senator James Wadsworth
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1966) Tarzan
as ---
(1956) The Adventures of Jim Bowie
as ---
(1955) Navy Log
as ---
(1959) Black Saddle
as Pit Thatcher
(1959) The Rebel
as Jess
(1963) The Dakotas
as ---
(1958) Lawman
as ---
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1967) The Guns of Will Sonnett
as ---
(1961) The New Breed
as Benny Kohler
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Wilkins
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Joby
(1959) Hotel de Paree
as ---
(1962) Stoney Burke
as ---
(1965) The Legend of Jesse James
as Meeker
(1956) Telephone Time
as ---
(1952) Dangerous Assignment
as ---
(1957) Panic!
as ---
(1958) Jefferson Drum
as Pete Henke
(1974) Paper Moon
as ---
(1954) Studio 57
as ---
(1975) Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
(1962) The Virginian
as Luther Watson
(1956) Broken Arrow
as Renton
(1967) He & She
as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
(1971) Nichols
as Zachariah
(1965) The Big Valley
as Fludd
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Cooter
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Ed Davey
(1959) Bonanza
as Lonnie Stern
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Dooley
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Dillard
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Rowley
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Gene Bunch
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Billy
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Timble
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Carew
(1963) The Lieutenant
as Taxi Driver
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Obie
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Ben Snow
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Tom Blair
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Nanyface
(1959) Bonanza
as Joad Bruder
(1957) Perry Mason
as Joe Mead
(1957) Perry Mason
as Gerald Sommers
(1957) Perry Mason
as Roy Hutchinson
(1959) Bonanza
as Cole Younger
(1959) Bonanza
as Little Meredith Smith
(1974) The Rockford Files
as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as Charles Sloane
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Fred Coombs
(1967) The Invaders
as Charlie Coogan
(1955) Crossroads
as Landry Kersh
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bellhop
(1958) The Texan
as Polk Blackston
(1974) Petrocelli
as Clate Dobie
(1961) The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Harper Worthington Yates
(1968) It Takes a Thief
as Willard Knox
(1954) The Lone Wolf
as Nick Davis
(1967) The Danny Thomas Hour
as Paul Rooney
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Teeples
(1969) Love, American Style
as ---