Strother Martin
- Acting
- March 26, 1919 · Kokomo, Indiana, USA
- August 1, 1980
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."
Known for
Filmography
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · Self
- Hotwire · The Weasel
- The Secret of Nikola Tesla · George Westinghouse
- Better Late Than Never · J.D. Ashcroft
- The Villain · Parody Jones
- The Champ · Riley
- Nightwing · Selwyn
- Love and Bullets · Louis Monk
- Stubby Pringle's Christmas · Old Hollander
- Steel Cowboy · Pinky Pincus
- Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy · Turtle Ranch Boss
- Vega$
- Up in Smoke · Mr. Stoner
- The End · Dr. Waldo Kling
- Slap Shot · Joe McGrath
- The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday · Billy
- Rooster Cogburn · Shanghai McCoy
- Saturday Night Live · Self
- Hard Times · Poe
- One of Our Own · LeRoy Atkins
- Mitzi & 100 Guys · Self
- Baretta
- The Rockford Files · Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
- Movin' On
- Paper Moon
- Petrocelli · Clate Dobie
- Sssssss · Dr. Carl Stoner
- The Boy and the Bronc Buster · Buckshot
- Hawkins · R.J. Hawkins
- The Rookies
- Pocket Money · Bill Garrett
- The Flim Flam Man · Lovick
- Hannie Caulder · Rufus Clemens
- Nichols · Zachariah
- Fools' Parade · Lee Cottrill
- The Brotherhood of Satan · Doc Duncan
- Red Sky at Morning · John Cloyd
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue · Bowen
- Love, American Style
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid · Percy Garris
- Marcus Welby, M.D. · Terry Riggs
- The Wild Bunch · Coffer
- True Grit · Colonel G. Stonehill
- The Doris Day Show · Tyrone Lovey
- The Name of the Game · Nanyface
- It Takes a Thief · Willard Knox
- The Mountains of the Moon · O'Keefe
- Cool Hand Luke · Captain
- The Danny Thomas Hour · Paul Rooney
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- He & She · The Rev. Mr. Anderson
- The Flim-Flam Man · Lovick
- The Invaders · Charlie Coogan
- Tarzan
- Nevada Smith · Strother (uncredited)
- An Eye for an Eye · Trumbull
- Harper · Claude
- Lost in Space · Nerim
- The Big Valley · Dan'l Hawks, Fludd
- Run for Your Life · Holly Amberton
- The Legend of Jesse James · Meeker
- The Sons of Katie Elder · Ned Ross
- Shenandoah · Train Engineer
- Brainstorm · Mr. Clyde
- Profiles in Courage · Senator James Wadsworth
- Invitation to a Gunfighter · Fiddler
- Gilligan's Island
- Daniel Boone · Solomon Tarbot
- McLintock! · Agard
- The Fugitive · Deputy Shirky Saulter
- The Lieutenant · Taxi Driver
- Showdown · Charlie Reeder
- The Dakotas
- Stoney Burke
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- The Virginian · Finley, Luther Watson
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · Floyd
- The New Breed · Benny Kohler
- The Dick Van Dyke Show · Harper Worthington Yates
- Ben Casey · Frank Geray