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