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