Strother Martin

🎭 Actor

Strother Martin

🎂 Born 26 March 1919 (age 61)✝ 1 August 1980📍 Kokomo, Indiana, USA

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Popularity Score

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Acting Credits

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

True Grit

Colonel G. Stonehill

Sssssss

Dr. Carl Stoner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Cool Hand Luke

Full Filmography(73 films)

YearTitleCharacterRating

1969True GritColonel G. Stonehill★ 7.3 1973SssssssDr. Carl Stoner★ 5.1 1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidPercy Garris★ 7.6 1967Cool Hand LukeCaptain★ 7.7 1969The Wild BunchCoffer★ 7.6 1966HarperClaude★ 6.7 1962The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceFloyd★ 7.8 1963McLintock!Agard★ 6.6 1977Slap ShotJoe McGrath★ 6.8 1971Hannie CaulderRufus Clemens★ 6.2 1978Up in SmokeMr. Stoner★ 6.6 1965The Sons of Katie ElderNed Ross★ 7.1 1976The Great Scout & Cathouse ThursdayBilly★ 5.1 1975Hard TimesPoe★ 6.8 1959The Horse SoldiersVirgil★ 7.0 1966Nevada SmithStrother (uncredited)★ 6.7 1979The ChampRiley★ 7.0 1954A Star Is BornDelivery Boy (uncredited)★ 7.1 1950The Asphalt JungleWilliam Doldy (uncredited)★ 7.5 1979The VillainParody Jones★ 5.7 1955Kiss Me DeadlyHarvey Wallace★ 7.2 1965ShenandoahTrain Engineer★ 7.0 1970The Ballad of Cable HogueBowen★ 7.0 1954The Silver ChaliceFather (uncredited)★ 4.5 1975Rooster CogburnShanghai McCoy★ 6.5 1972Pocket MoneyBill Garrett★ 5.5 1978The EndDr. Waldo Kling★ 5.6 1958CowboyTrailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake★ 6.5 1964Invitation to a GunfighterFiddler★ 5.9 1956AttackIngersol★ 6.8 1954Drum BeatScotty★ 6.1 1959The Shaggy DogThurm★ 6.2 1971Fools' ParadeLee Cottrill★ 6.7 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood RenegadeSelf (archive footage)★ 8.0 1955The Big KnifeStillman★ 6.0 1955Strategic Air CommandAirman★ 6.2 1953The Magnetic MonsterCo-Pilot★ 5.6 1957Black PatchPetey★ 5.9 1956World Without EndNihka (uncredited)★ 5.8 1979Love and BulletsLouis Monk★ 5.9 1951The Red Badge of CourageCorporal (voice) (uncredited)★ 6.5 1979NightwingSelwyn★ 4.8 1961The Deadly CompanionsParson★ 5.6 1967The Flim-Flam ManLovick★ 7.1 1978Steel CowboyPinky Pincus★ 9.0 1953South Sea WomanMarine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)★ 4.8 1955Target ZeroPvt. Dan O'Hirons★ 5.9 1971The Brotherhood of SatanDoc Duncan★ 5.8 1959The Wild and the InnocentBen Stocker★ 6.3 1975Mitzi & 100 GuysSelf—1961SanctuaryDog Boy★ 5.4 1958Bitter HeritageEarle Eheeler★ 8.0 1950The Damned Don't CrySpringboard Diver (uncredited)★ 7.0 1952Androcles and the LionSoldier (uncredited)★ 5.9 1965BrainstormMr. Clyde★ 6.1 1966An Eye for an EyeTrumbull★ 7.4 1978Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy GuyTurtle Ranch Boss★ 7.8 1979Better Late Than NeverJ.D. Ashcroft★ 9.0 1963ShowdownCharlie Reeder★ 6.1 1980The Secret of Nikola TeslaGeorge Westinghouse★ 6.3 1971Red Sky at MorningJohn Cloyd★ 7.1 1975One of Our OwnLeRoy Atkins★ 10.0 1951RhubarbMichael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)★ 5.8 1956The Black WhipThorny★ 10.0 1978Stubby Pringle's ChristmasOld Hollander★ 7.0 1954World for Ransom—★ 5.3 1952Storm Over TibetCo-pilot★ 7.0 1967The Mountains of the MoonO'Keefe—1957Copper SkyPokey★ 6.7 1972The Flim Flam ManLovick—1980HotwireThe Weasel★ 6.0 1956Johnny ConchoTownsman (uncredited)★ 4.5 1973The Boy and the Bronc BusterBuckshot—

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