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