Name
Strother Martin
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-03-26
Deathday
1980-08-01 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
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
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(2,538 Votes)
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As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves ...
Relase Date : 23 Sep, 1969
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Cool Hand Luke
(1,665 Votes)
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When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he do...
Relase Date : 1 Nov, 1967
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1,329 Votes)
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Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Donipho...
Relase Date : 13 Apr, 1962
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The Wild Bunch
(1,373 Votes)
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An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West i...
Relase Date : 19 Jun, 1969
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Hard Times
(242 Votes)
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In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of ...
Relase Date : 13 Aug, 1975
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McLintock!
(265 Votes)
6.6
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numero...
Relase Date : 12 Nov, 1963
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 1975 One of Our Own as LeRoy Atkins
- 1972 The Flim Flam Man as Lovick
- 1974 Movin' On ( 1 episode )
- 1972 The Rookies ( 1 episode )
- 1964 Gilligan's Island ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Hawkins ( 5 episodes ) as R.J. Hawkins
- 1969 Marcus Welby, M.D. ( 1 episode ) as Terry Riggs
- 1975 Baretta ( 3 episodes )
- 1951 I Love Lucy ( 1 episode ) as Man in Coffee Shop
- 1965 Lost in Space ( 1 episode ) as Nerim
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Stooler
- 1951 Dragnet ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Pete Gibson
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Gunnery Officer Daly
- 1954 Lassie ( 3 episodes )
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Old Hollander
- 1959 Rawhide ( 1 episode ) as Bates
- 1978 Vega$ ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 2 episodes )
- 1965 Run for Your Life ( 1 episode ) as Holly Amberton
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as Deputy Shirky Saulter
- 1964 Daniel Boone ( 1 episode ) as Solomon Tarbot
- 1955 The Millionaire ( 1 episode ) as Pete Hill
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Finley
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Dan'l Hawks
- 1960 Pete and Gladys ( 1 episode )
- 1964 Profiles in Courage ( 1 episode ) as Senator James Wadsworth
- 1955 Matinee Theater ( 1 episode )
- 1966 Tarzan ( 2 episodes )
- 1956 The Adventures of Jim Bowie ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Navy Log ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Black Saddle ( 1 episode ) as Pit Thatcher
- 1959 The Rebel ( 1 episode ) as Jess
- 1963 The Dakotas ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Lawman ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Ben Casey ( 2 episodes )
- 1967 The Guns of Will Sonnett ( 2 episodes )
- 1961 The New Breed ( 2 episodes ) as Benny Kohler
- 1952 Cavalcade of America ( 1 episode ) as Wilkins
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Joby
- 1959 Hotel de Paree ( 31 episodes )
- 1962 Stoney Burke ( 1 episode )
- 1965 The Legend of Jesse James ( 1 episode ) as Meeker
- 1956 Telephone Time ( 1 episode )
- 1952 Dangerous Assignment ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Panic! ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Jefferson Drum ( 1 episode ) as Pete Henke
- 1974 Paper Moon ( 1 episode )
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Luther Watson
- 1956 Broken Arrow ( 1 episode ) as Renton
- 1967 He & She ( 1 episode ) as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
- 1971 Nichols ( 1 episode ) as Zachariah
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Fludd
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Cooter
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Ed Davey
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Lonnie Stern
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Dooley
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Dillard
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Rowley
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Gene Bunch
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Billy
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Timble
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode ) as Carew
- 1963 The Lieutenant ( 1 episode ) as Taxi Driver
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Obie
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 2 episodes ) as Ben Snow
- 1952 Four Star Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Tom Blair
- 1968 The Name of the Game ( 1 episode ) as Nanyface
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Joad Bruder
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Joe Mead
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Gerald Sommers
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Roy Hutchinson
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Cole Younger
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Little Meredith Smith
- 1974 The Rockford Files ( 2 episodes ) as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
- 1958 77 Sunset Strip ( 1 episode ) as Charles Sloane
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode ) as Fred Coombs
- 1967 The Invaders ( 1 episode ) as Charlie Coogan
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode ) as Bellhop
- 1958 The Texan ( 1 episode ) as Polk Blackston
- 1974 Petrocelli ( 1 episode ) as Clate Dobie
- 1961 The Dick Van Dyke Show ( 1 episode ) as Harper Worthington Yates
- 1968 It Takes a Thief ( 1 episode ) as Willard Knox
- 1954 The Lone Wolf ( 1 episode ) as Nick Davis
- 1967 The Danny Thomas Hour ( 1 episode ) as Paul Rooney
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode ) as Teeples
- 1969 Love, American Style ( 1 episode )
- 1959 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as Mothershed
- 1954 Studio 57 ( 1 episode ) as Pete Dutton
- 1954 The Wonderful World of Disney ( 2 episodes ) as Buckshot
- 1968 The Doris Day Show ( 2 episodes ) as Tyrone Lovey
- 1953 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Waiter
- 1952 Chevron Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Yuri
- 1957 Trackdown ( 1 episode ) as Benny French
- 1961 Ben Casey ( 1 episode ) as Frank Geray
- 1954 The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1 episode ) as Thurm
- 1955 Crossroads ( 1 episode ) as Landry Kersh
